New Mexico · Nonprofit
ACADEMY FOR THE LOVE OF LEARNING INC
ACADEMY FOR THE LOVE OF LEARNING INC (New Mexico) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,220,531 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($18,150,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $559k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $18M
- Net assets
- $26M
What Academy for the Love of Learning Inc does
Mission
The academy's mission is to awaken, enliven, nurture, and sustain the natural love of learning in people of all ages through research, development, implementation, and dissemination of educational programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community programs: the academy launched its virtual waging peace (wp) program learning space; shared core academy curriculum at in person wp gatherings; collected and shared wp stories via its communications platform; and partnered with united world college and others to explore wp through adaptations of academy core curriculum components. The academy partnered with mandela international magnet school offering core curriculum components to faculty and students for a year-long exploration of academy pedagogy. The academy offered its lifesongs curriculum to elders at santa fe care center. The academy shared examples of transformative learning in action in seed syllables and other projects; and distributed practices, such as impact tracking, partnering, and the impulse exercise.
$1,509,490 spent64% of program spendingResearch: the academy's research continued with internal application of its learning exchange (le) methodology, including in faculty and staff development. This included the academy's continued work with a consultant to inform and shape the academy's ongoing transformation with a communications-based strategy for disseminating its educational programs and learnings.
$445,298 spent19% of program spendingSeton: the seton legacy project continued stewarding the academy's collection of ernest t. Seton artwork and legacy. Continued ongoing learning exchange (le) with native american leaders in new mexico to bridge to those communities, and to inform the academy how best to steward the seton legacy program into the future. Continued the academy's rematriation of all native american creations in seton's collection to the tribes to which they belong, including 13 items in 2025. And presented on the rematriations at the annual conference of the association of tribal archives libraries and museums.
$319,235 spentof which $104,750 as grants14% of program spendingTrainings: the academy worked with another nonprofit entity to incorporate academy curriculum in their learning programs, including prototyping new online coursework offerings; and designed the curriculum, facilitated, and hosted portions of their fellows program. Ventana: the ventana program continued a hiatus while the academy considered the program's future.
$69,670 spent$75,000 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,343,693.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $23M to $28M (+23%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
5% of ACADEMY FOR THE LOVE OF LEARNING INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $11k → $16.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ACADEMY FOR THE LOVE OF LEARNING INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ACADEMY FOR THE LOVE OF LEARNING INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ACADEMY FOR THE LOVE OF LEARNING INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 98% · 2019 98% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of ACADEMY FOR THE LOVE OF LEARNING INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $60k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from New Mexico funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ACADEMY FOR THE LOVE OF LEARNING INC is better cushioned than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ACADEMY FOR THE LOVE OF LEARNING INC
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In New Mexico
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 6 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ACADEMY FOR THE LOVE OF LEARNING INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ACADEMY FOR THE LOVE OF LEARNING INC?
- ACADEMY FOR THE LOVE OF LEARNING INC (New Mexico) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,220,531 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($18,150,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ACADEMY FOR THE LOVE OF LEARNING INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $18,220,531 in grants to ACADEMY FOR THE LOVE OF LEARNING INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACADEMY FOR THE LOVE OF LEARNING INC?
- TIDES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $18,150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACADEMY FOR THE LOVE OF LEARNING INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Mexico. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 5 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing