How do I find funders for a civil rights and advocacy nonprofit in New Mexico?

Start with the funders already giving to civil rights and advocacy in New Mexico, currently WK Kellogg Foundation, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc, The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation. Then look at who funds the civil rights and advocacy organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into New Mexico from out of state.

How much grant money goes to civil rights and advocacy in New Mexico?

$127M reached 101 civil rights and advocacy organizations in New Mexico, from 408 funders. 14% came from funders also based in New Mexico.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · New Mexico · Civil rights and advocacy

Who funds civil rights and advocacy in New Mexico

Most of it comes from outside New Mexico: only 14% is from funders based in the state, so national funders set the agenda here. Civil rights and advocacy funding in New Mexico is unusually spread out: no single organization draws even 12%, though American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico Foundation leads, and the money reaches 101 groups.

$127M

granted

101

organizations

14%

from in-state

The short version

408 funders gave $127M to 101 civil rights and advocacy organizations in New Mexico across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
14% of that came from funders also based in New Mexico; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of civil rights and advocacy in New Mexico is WK Kellogg Foundation, at $19M.
The civil rights and advocacy organization drawing the most is American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico Foundation, at $15M.

Largest funders of civil rights and advocacy in New Mexico

The funders giving the most to civil rights and advocacy organizations in New Mexico, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1WK Kellogg Foundation$19M 2Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc$8M 3The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation$5M 4New Venture Fund$5M 5Tides Foundation$5M 6American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc$4M 7Marguerite Casey Foundation$4M 8Toan-O'Brien Foundation Barrett Toan & Paula O'Brien Ttees$3M 9Annie E Casey Foundation Inc$3M 10Novo Foundation$2M

Civil rights and advocacy organizations in New Mexico that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

91 other civil rights and advocacy organizations$42M

American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico Foundation$15M New Mexico Voices for Children$13M Southwest Organizing Project$12M New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty$11M Somos Un Pueblo Unido$9M The Ole Education Fund$6M

How to find civil rights and advocacy funders in New Mexico

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Start with the funders already active in New Mexico
The funders giving the most to civil rights and advocacy in New Mexico are WK Kellogg Foundation, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc, The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation. A funder already writing civil rights and advocacy checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
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See who funds organizations like yours
Open the civil rights and advocacy organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
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Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
86% of civil rights and advocacy money in New Mexico comes from funders elsewhere, so national civil rights and advocacy funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in New Mexico.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a civil rights and advocacy nonprofit in New Mexico?: Start with the funders already giving to civil rights and advocacy in New Mexico, currently WK Kellogg Foundation, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc, The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation. Then look at who funds the civil rights and advocacy organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into New Mexico from out of state.
Who is the largest civil rights and advocacy funder in New Mexico?: WK Kellogg Foundation gives the most to civil rights and advocacy organizations in New Mexico, $19M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to civil rights and advocacy in New Mexico?: $127M reached 101 civil rights and advocacy organizations in New Mexico, from 408 funders. 14% came from funders also based in New Mexico.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.