How do I find funders for a environment nonprofit in New Mexico?

Start with the funders already giving to environment in New Mexico, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Eugene V and Clare E Thaw Charitable Trust, United States Energy Foundation. Then look at who funds the environment organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into New Mexico from out of state.

Who is the largest environment funder in New Mexico?

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to environment organizations in New Mexico, $9M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to environment in New Mexico?

$164M reached 200 environment organizations in New Mexico, from 655 funders. 21% 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 · Environment

Who funds environment in New Mexico

Environment funding in New Mexico is unusually spread out: no single organization draws even 12%, though Wildearth Guardians leads, and the money reaches 200 groups. Most of it comes from outside New Mexico: only 21% is from funders based in the state, so national funders set the agenda here.

$164M

granted

200

organizations

21%

from in-state

The short version

655 funders gave $164M to 200 environment organizations in New Mexico across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
21% of that came from funders also based in New Mexico; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of environment in New Mexico is Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, at $9M.
The environment organization drawing the most is Wildearth Guardians, at $15M.

Largest funders of environment in New Mexico

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

1Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$9M 2Eugene V and Clare E Thaw Charitable Trust$8M 3United States Energy Foundation$8M 4Carroll Petrie Foundation$7M 5New Venture Fund$7M 6Santa Fe Community Foundation$6M 7Western Conservation Foundation$4M 8National Fish and Wildlife Foundation$4M 9The Nature Conservancy$4M 10League of Conservation Voters Inc$3M

Environment organizations in New Mexico that draw the most

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

190 other environment organizations$90M

Wildearth Guardians$15M New Mexico Wilderness Alliance$10M

How to find environment funders in New Mexico

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Start with the funders already active in New Mexico
The funders giving the most to environment in New Mexico are Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Eugene V and Clare E Thaw Charitable Trust, United States Energy Foundation. A funder already writing environment checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the environment 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.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
79% of environment money in New Mexico comes from funders elsewhere, so national environment funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in New Mexico.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a environment nonprofit in New Mexico?: Start with the funders already giving to environment in New Mexico, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Eugene V and Clare E Thaw Charitable Trust, United States Energy Foundation. Then look at who funds the environment organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into New Mexico from out of state.
Who is the largest environment funder in New Mexico?: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to environment organizations in New Mexico, $9M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to environment in New Mexico?: $164M reached 200 environment organizations in New Mexico, from 655 funders. 21% 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.