New Mexico · Nonprofit
BARRY LOPEZ FOUNDATION FOR ART & ENVIRONMENT
BARRY LOPEZ FOUNDATION FOR ART & ENVIRONMENT (New Mexico) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $73,000 to it, the largest being GALE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($45,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $95k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $73k
- Net assets
- $11k
What Barry Lopez Foundation for Art & Environment does
Mission
The Barry Lopez Foundation for Art & Environment collaborates with leading contemporary artists to create transformative artistic and cultural experiences that illuminate our connection to the natural world and help us navigate the dramatic choices we face about our future, including issues surrounding climate change, biodiversity, habitat loss, and our changing relationship with land in a time of environmental crisis. The foundation circulates original fine art exhibitions to museums and galleries around the United States, and sponsors commissions with visual artists, composers, and writers.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
In 2024, The Barry Lopez Foundation presented the video exposition "Janet Biggs: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape" at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, NY between February 10 and May 12. The attendance for the show was 12, 500.
$0 spent0% of program spendingWe presented a photography exhibition "From Here to Horizon: Photographs in Honor of Barry Lopez" at the Museum of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX between August 22 and December 22, 2024, with a lecture by the Foundation's Director in November. Texas Tech told us that they had 30,000 visitors through the exhibit.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOn April 27, 2024,"Crossing Open Ground," a new work by composer John Luther Adams was co-commissioned by the Barry Lopez Foundation and the Aspen Music Festival, which was performed at Lincoln Center in NYC, by the Julliard School. 5000 people attended the performances which were held outdoors.
$5,000 spent100% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $5,000.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $28k to $11k (−60%).
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.
100% of BARRY LOPEZ FOUNDATION FOR ART & ENVIRONMENT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Eleanor Jones Harvey
Acting Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 BARRY LOPEZ FOUNDATION FOR ART & ENVIRONMENT’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
BARRY LOPEZ FOUNDATION FOR ART & ENVIRONMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
38% 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 BARRY LOPEZ FOUNDATION FOR ART & ENVIRONMENT.
“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
BARRY LOPEZ FOUNDATION FOR ART & ENVIRONMENT draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New Mexico, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $28k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
BARRY LOPEZ FOUNDATION FOR ART & ENVIRONMENT has grown faster than three-quarters of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like BARRY LOPEZ FOUNDATION FOR ART & ENVIRONMENT
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BARRY LOPEZ FOUNDATION FOR ART & ENVIRONMENT?
- BARRY LOPEZ FOUNDATION FOR ART & ENVIRONMENT (New Mexico) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $73,000 to it, the largest being GALE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($45,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BARRY LOPEZ FOUNDATION FOR ART & ENVIRONMENT have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $73,000 in grants to BARRY LOPEZ FOUNDATION FOR ART & ENVIRONMENT, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BARRY LOPEZ FOUNDATION FOR ART & ENVIRONMENT?
- GALE FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BARRY LOPEZ FOUNDATION FOR ART & ENVIRONMENT 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 3 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