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ALBUQUERQUE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION

ALBUQUERQUE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION (New Mexico) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,649,796 to it, the largest being WILLIAM H AND LILLIAN DOLDE CHARITABLE TRUST ($780,409). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$3.4M
Funders on record
26
Grants received
$1.6M
Net assets
$12M
12/26 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What Albuquerque Public Schools Foundation does

Mission

Partners with the community to invest in innovative and enhanced learning opportunities to help aps students reach their full potential.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The aps foundation administers over 100 agency funds, 27 scholarship accounts, 1 charitable trust for the music department, and 1 permanent endowment to support the school nurses vision care fund for albuquerque public schools students. Over $700,000 in funds was distributed to programs through agency accounts maintained by the foundation.the foundation awarded over $700,000 in 154 grants to various schools and departments, which benefitted 70,000 students throughout the district. Grant programs focused on innovative approaches to academic focus areas as well as social emotional learning and out of school time programming.

    $2,170,022 spentof which $2,042,458 as grants$65,702 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,170,022.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.4M) Expenses 100 ($2.1M) Net assets 100 ($7.4M)2018 Revenue 98 ($2.3M) Expenses 100 ($2.1M) Net assets 108 ($8.0M)2019 Revenue 89 ($2.1M) Expenses 102 ($2.1M) Net assets 109 ($8.1M)2020 Revenue 76 ($1.8M) Expenses 71 ($1.5M) Net assets 114 ($8.5M)2021 Revenue 98 ($2.3M) Expenses 75 ($1.6M) Net assets 127 ($9.4M)2022 Revenue 113 ($2.7M) Expenses 115 ($2.4M) Net assets 129 ($9.6M)2023 Revenue 103 ($2.4M) Expenses 111 ($2.3M) Net assets 131 ($9.8M)2024 Revenue 115 ($2.7M) Expenses 105 ($2.2M) Net assets 144 ($11M)2025 Revenue 144 ($3.4M) Expenses 130 ($2.7M) Net assets 166 ($12M)
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Revenue (144)Expenses (130)Net assets (166)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 2024 to 2025, from $11M to $12M (+15%).

$7.5M
$8.1M
$8.3M
$8.5M
$9.5M
$9.7M
$10.0M
$11M
$12M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

98% of ALBUQUERQUE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,360 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$275k
’17
$245k
’18
−$21k
’19
$302k
’20
$727k
’21
$271k
’22
$118k
’23
$514k
’24
$700k
’25
25
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.

Chief executive

Shannon Barnhill

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed202224283037313130
Joined·+11+8+14+6+10+7+5+11
No longer listed·96104313512
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $24k → $155k.

9 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $152k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Albuquerque Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money ALBUQUERQUE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION raised.

From the IRS filings of ALBUQUERQUE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 25 of 26 funders by total. 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

ALBUQUERQUE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

47%
largest funder
78%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 57% · 2020 54% · 2021 67% · 2022 45% · 2023 71% — 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

43% of ALBUQUERQUE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

ALBUQUERQUE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside New Mexico, across 11 states in all.

MI
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CA
DE
NM
OK
GA
TX

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

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’21
’22
’23
New Mexico out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $115k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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

ALBUQUERQUE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin21% · top quartile
Months of reserve24.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 16%Fundraising 4%

Governance

29
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

81%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds ALBUQUERQUE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION?
ALBUQUERQUE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION (New Mexico) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,649,796 to it, the largest being WILLIAM H AND LILLIAN DOLDE CHARITABLE TRUST ($780,409). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ALBUQUERQUE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $1,649,796 in grants to ALBUQUERQUE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ALBUQUERQUE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION?
WILLIAM H AND LILLIAN DOLDE CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $780,409 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ALBUQUERQUE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 26 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