New Mexico · Nonprofit
Albuquerque Sign Language Academy
Albuquerque Sign Language Academy (New Mexico) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $814,253 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($400,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Albuquerque Sign Language Academy runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Nusenda Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Anchorum St Vincentshared funders
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.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 94% · 2018 94% · 2019 94% · 2020 95% · 2021 94% · 2022 92% · 2023 97% · 2024 95% · 2025 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of Albuquerque Sign Language Academy’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $15k → $8k.
5 of 13 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.
From the IRS filings of Albuquerque Sign Language Academy’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
Albuquerque Sign Language Academy leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 52% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 50% · 2023 97% — 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
25% of Albuquerque Sign Language Academy's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 31% give in more than one year at all.
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 Sign Language Academy draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside New Mexico, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $58k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 13 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Nusenda Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchNM · backs 85 organizations that share your funders · funds 82 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchNM · backs 59 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Anchorum St Vincentshared fundersNM · backs 50 organizations that share your funders
- Oberkotter Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- A for Arizonaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New Mexico Fund for Women and Girlsshared funderslocalNM · backs 35 organizations that share your funders · funds 23 organizations near you
- Hancock Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Building Hope Impact Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Institute for Excellence in Teachingportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Musical Instrument Museumportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ruth Danley and William Enoch Moore Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Naca-Inspired Schools Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding Albuquerque Sign Language Academy receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $920k on record.
- Department of Commerce$500k
- Department of Health and Human Services$300k
- Corporation for National and Community Service$120k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Albuquerque Sign Language Academy
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New Mexico
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Albuquerque Sign Language Academy: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Albuquerque Sign Language Academy?
- Albuquerque Sign Language Academy (New Mexico) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $814,253 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($400,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Albuquerque Sign Language Academy have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $814,253 in grants to Albuquerque Sign Language Academy, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Albuquerque Sign Language Academy?
- WK Kellogg Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Albuquerque Sign Language Academy 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 13funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing