New Mexico · Nonprofit
Amigos Bravos Inc
Amigos Bravos Inc (New Mexico) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,569,970 to it, the largest being CARROLL PETRIE FOUNDATION ($675,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 43
- Grants received
- $3.6M
- Net assets
- $4.9M
What Amigos Bravos Inc does
Mission
Amigos Bravos is a river protection and restoration advocacy organization guided by social justice principles, and working to preserve the ecological and cultural integrity of the Rio Grande watershed. The work is accomplished through public outreach and education, technical and capacity-building support, and on-the-ground restoration initiatives.The mission of Amigos Bravos is:To return New Mexicos rivers and the Rio Grande watershed to drinkable quality wherever possible, and to contact quality everywhere elseTo see that natural flows are maintained and where those flows have been disrupted by human intervention, to see that they are regulated to protect and reclaim the river ecosystem by approximating natural flowsTo preserve and restore the native riparian and riverine biodiversityTo support the environmentally-sound, sustainable traditional ways of life of indigenous culturesTo ensure that environmental justice and social justice go hand-in-hand
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Restoring watershed health: Healthy watersheds are critical to the health and wellbeing of all New Mexicans people, plants, and animals. Amigos Bravos works with volunteers and community organizations to restore the natural hydrology and resiliency of wetlands, forests, high mountain meadows and aquatic ecosystems. Amigos Bravos also works to develop proactive policies that counter impacts from climate change-driven drought and large storm events. In addition, Amigos Bravos works to protect special places and restore native aquatic species (including Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout and River Otters) and their habitats.
$860,677 spent67% of program spendingBuild a river protection movement: Through this program area Amigos Bravos is building the capacity of individuals and communities to protect waters in their own backyards by providing technical assistance, workshops and trainings. Moreover, through the arts and activism initiative, Amigos Bravos is creating opportunities to positively influence people's relationship to water.
$319,314 spent25% of program spendingHolding polluters accountable: Key to protecting New Mexicos waters for future generations is holding polluters and government agencies accountable for stopping water contamination and the cleanup of hazardous waste. Current areas of concern to Amigos Bravos include impacts from the mining industry, Los Alamos National Laboratory, municipal and industrial storm water discharges, concentrated dairy farms, and the oil and gas industry.
$99,826 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,279,817.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $548k to $3.7M (+576%).
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: 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Joseph Zupan
Exec Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $74k → $819k.
11 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 Amigos Bravos Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 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
Amigos Bravos Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
44% 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 Amigos Bravos Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 34% · 2019 29% · 2020 20% · 2021 45% · 2022 28% · 2023 31% — 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
56% of Amigos Bravos Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
Amigos Bravos Inc draws 60% of its grant income from funders outside New Mexico, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Government funding Amigos Bravos Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $720k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$421k
- Department of the Interior$179k
- Environmental Protection Agency$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 Amigos Bravos Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the 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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Amigos Bravos 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 Amigos Bravos Inc?
- Amigos Bravos Inc (New Mexico) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,569,970 to it, the largest being CARROLL PETRIE FOUNDATION ($675,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Amigos Bravos Inc have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $3,569,970 in grants to Amigos Bravos Inc, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Amigos Bravos Inc?
- CARROLL PETRIE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $675,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Amigos Bravos 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 43 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