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AIRE

AIRE (New Mexico) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $286,583 to it, the largest being SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($115,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$746k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$287k
Net assets
$-26952
8/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 40%
01What it does

What Aire does

Mission

The primary mission is to reconnect people with the land, their food, and ecology while addressing the growing problems associated with the industrial food system, climate change, and nature deficit disorder.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Farm to School Food Program- Provides 800 USDA school meals daily featuring scratch cooking and healthy ingredients from local farms and ranches. Meals are delivered to three local charter schools, and nutrition education is provided bi-monthly to encourage students to eat healthy and learn how to cook. 80,000 meals were provided to students in 2024 and farm produce was sourced from over 12 local farms and ranches, strengthening the local agriculture network and economy.

    $368,955 spent
    56% of program spending
  2. Amigos Locale Program An education center featuring a commissary kitchen, Juice Bar, and local Farm Market that provides culinary arts training, business education, and customer service experience to high school interns. A community-supported agriculture program is an education program for new farmers, including market support and establishing market connections. This year 6 interns from the Taos Pueblo Workforce Solution summer program trained in barista skills, business skills, and marketing. Vista Grande High School students worked weekly in the Farm to Institution Culinary training program, gaining employment skills. Students were able to use the Amigos infrastructure to plan and host dinner events and catering events.

    $142,680 spent
    22% of program spending
  3. School Programing- helped establish 6 gardens and 4 greenhouses and provided garden classes to 3800 students. A high tunnel greenhouse donated to Taos Middle School provides an outdoor classroom and nutrition education to 350 students, engaging with a curriculum that connects the elementary agriculture classes to advanced agriculture classes in the high school. Studies indicate that students who know a farmer and participate in gardening have a 20% higher intention to eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, which helps to create a regenerative local health economy.

    $74,451 spent
    11% of program spending
  4. Other program services

    $67,510 spent
    10% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $653,596.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($93k) Expenses 100 ($23k) Net assets 100 ($74k)2019 Revenue 44 ($41k) Expenses 356 ($83k) Net assets 44 ($33k)2020 Revenue 251 ($233k) Expenses 1068 ($248k) Net assets 25 ($18k)2021 Revenue 168 ($157k) Expenses 767 ($178k) Net assets -4 ($-3244)2022 Revenue 171 ($160k) Expenses 682 ($158k) Net assets 27 ($20k)2023 Revenue 160 ($149k) Expenses 444 ($103k) Net assets 88 ($66k)2024 Revenue 529 ($493k) Expenses 2420 ($562k) Net assets -23 ($-17320)2025 Revenue 800 ($746k) Expenses 3254 ($755k) Net assets -36 ($-26952)
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Revenue (800)Expenses (3254)Net assets (-36)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $20k to $66k (+227%).

$74k
$33k
$18k
$2k
$20k
$66k
$26k
$25k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

34% of AIRE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,394 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$70k
’18
−$42k
’19
−$14k
’20
−$22k
’21
$1k
’22
$46k
’23
−$69k
’24
−$10k
’25
0.1
months of
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.

202020242025
Listed434
Joined··+1
No longer listed··0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $25k → $33k.

6 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 AIRE’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

AIRE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

92% 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 AIRE.

40%
largest funder
68%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 48% · 2021 82% · 2022 100% · 2023 42% — diversifying over time.

“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.

How long its funders stay

20% of AIRE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 89% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

89% of AIRE'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 $31k that is directly attributable, 52% of it comes from New Mexico funders.

IL
NM

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’23
New Mexico out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $256k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

AIRE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,059 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−1% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)35% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,059 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like AIRE

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In New Mexico

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 13%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

55%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NM

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Questions and answers

Who funds AIRE?
AIRE (New Mexico) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $286,583 to it, the largest being SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($115,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does AIRE have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $286,583 in grants to AIRE, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AIRE?
SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $115,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AIRE 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.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 9 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing