New Mexico · Nonprofit
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF CARLSBAD INC
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF CARLSBAD INC (New Mexico) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $139,759 to it, the largest being GOD'S LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS FOUNDATION ($59,600). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $287k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $140k
- Net assets
- $936k
What Assistance League of Carlsbad Inc does
Mission
An independently and locally governed chapter of national assistance league; assistance league of carlsbad, inc. ("assistance league", or "organization") was incorporated as a tax-exempt nonprofit organization in the state of new mexico in 1965 and is primarily and directly responsible for its own operations. The organization's mission is to carry on a program of philanthropic work in the carlsbad, new mexico area. The organization's primary sources of support and revenue are contributions and special fundraising events.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Operation school bell provides assistance to children in need. Chapters determine the specific needs in their local communities, then develop, fund,and implement the programs. Each chapter detemines the need in their community and how best their volunteers can operate the program. Some chapters outfit each child identified by school nurses and counslers at their chapter facility. Other chapters provide children in need with clothing at shopping events at local stores or through vouchers. Other items provided by chapters are personal car kits, hair cuts, school supplies, books, dictionaries, dental and vision care. For many children these are the first new clothes or books they have ever received.
$116,965 spent95% of program spendingScholarship services provides annual scholarships to selected students graduating from carslbad high school for assistance in higher education.
$6,185 spent5% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $123,150.
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.
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 $807k to $948k (+17%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $28k → $9k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF CARLSBAD 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
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF CARLSBAD INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
57% 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 ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF CARLSBAD INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 97% · 2023 98% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF CARLSBAD INC's grant income comes from New Mexico funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $27k 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.
Organizations like ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF CARLSBAD 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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF CARLSBAD 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 ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF CARLSBAD INC?
- ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF CARLSBAD INC (New Mexico) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $139,759 to it, the largest being GOD'S LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS FOUNDATION ($59,600). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF CARLSBAD INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $139,759 in grants to ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF CARLSBAD INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF CARLSBAD INC?
- GOD'S LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $59,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF CARLSBAD 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.
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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 2019–2025), and the filings of 6 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