New Mexico · Nonprofit
Biomimicry for Social Innovation
Biomimicry for Social Innovation (New Mexico) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $895,920 to it, the largest being NOVO FOUNDATION ($400,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $548k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $896k
- Net assets
- $432k
What Biomimicry for Social Innovation does
Mission
Building on natures success in creating conditions conducive to life, BSI provides tools and connects practitioners who are applying natures intelligence to the social sector. Working closely with other organizations, we translate biological knowledge into practices that transform the way we lead organizational and societal change.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Nature of Trust project is a project using biomimicry and a science-based research approach to examine what we can learn about trust-building from the natural world. This project focuses on identifying lessons from nature relevant to trust-building demonstrating biomimicrys application as a strategic lens, implementation tool, and regenerative practice for social innovation challenges and developing a framework, toolkit and other resources to support the application of natures lessons to advance health equity and social change.
$243,888 spent$235,920 earned by the program62% of program spendingLiving Systems Leadership Retreat is a 5-day residential workshop for women leaders, providing training in biomimicry and natural systems models and translating those lessons into leadership practices for use in the social and business sectors.
$39,019 spent$52,183 earned by the program10% of program spendingConsulting, partnering, coproducing, and material development for workshops, conferences, and training events around social innovation based on biomimicry principles
$110,587 spent$100,324 earned by the program28% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $393,494.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $127k to $359k (+184%).
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.
91% of Biomimicry for Social Innovation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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
Toby Herzlich
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $30k → $100k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 Biomimicry for Social Innovation’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
Biomimicry for Social Innovation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 83%; 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: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2021 70% · 2022 77% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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 Biomimicry for Social Innovation's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 44% 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
Biomimicry for Social Innovation draws 99% 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. $142k 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.
Against its field
Biomimicry for Social Innovation has grown faster than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Biomimicry for Social Innovation
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 Biomimicry for Social Innovation: 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 Biomimicry for Social Innovation?
- Biomimicry for Social Innovation (New Mexico) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $895,920 to it, the largest being NOVO FOUNDATION ($400,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Biomimicry for Social Innovation have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $895,920 in grants to Biomimicry for Social Innovation, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Biomimicry for Social Innovation?
- NOVO 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 Biomimicry for Social Innovation 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 9 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