New Mexico · Nonprofit
CENTER
CENTER (New Mexico) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $464,302 to it, the largest being LEGAL FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON ($213,254). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $558k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $464k
- Net assets
- $329k
What Center does
Mission
Center santa fe (Center), founded in 1994, is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that supports socially and environmentally engaged lens-based projects with education, platforms, funding, and partnerships. Through our advancement of artists and their work, Center serves to deepen public understandings of lens-based media's history and ongoing cultural significance. By establishing partnerships between artists, scholars, students, editors, and the art world, we advance projects that respect all people, open minds, and engage our shared humanity. The annual programs include review santa fe photo symposium, project launch grant, the project development grant, the choice awards, callanan excellence in teaching award, project lab mentorships, the democratic lens: photography & civic engagement discussion series, and Center membership.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Artist sponsorship program - Center served as a sponsor for visual storytellers and project based initiatives. Attorney and visual storyteller debbie espinosa's project "living with conviction" leveraged legal empowerment to advocate for an end to court imposed debt for the formerly incarcerated. Kurt markus scholarship program offered a hands on workshop and travel expenses to the photographer.
$46,974 spent$31,602 earned by the program12% of program spendingReview santa fe photo symposium is a conference that brings together photographers & industry leaders for a weekend of portfolio reviews, networking, career advancement, and creative inspiration. The event consists of approximately 1,000 portfolio reviews with esteemed curators, publishers, gallery directors and editors from all over the country, as a result of these sessions photographers have received exhibitions, publication and many more professional opportunities. Over 70,000.00 in scholarship have been awarded since its inception in 2001. Number of people benefited: 96 photographers & 45 reviewers. Number of visitors to the open portfolio walk: 1,160.
$92,172 spent$108,218 earned by the program23% of program spendingThe Center awards highlight outstanding photographic projects working in all processes in several categories. The environmental award, social award, personal award and multimedia award packages include publication, presentation, exhibition, and mentorship. The project grants include 5,000 and a professional development package. An outside independent jury selects the recipients for each category each year. Number of people direclty benefitting: 7 photographers. Number of exhibition attendees: 13,000 visitors.
$7,664 spent$19,200 earned by the program2% of program spendingOther sponorship programs
$252,689 spentof which $22,500 as grants$327,572 earned by the program63% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $399,499.
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. 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 $260k to $329k (+26%).
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: 2019 13% · 2020 24% · 2021 25% · 2022 22% · 2023 19% · 2024 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
68% of CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
Dyanna Taylor
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $6k → $84k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 CENTER’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
CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% 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
99% 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 CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 45% · 2021 86% · 2022 73% · 2023 87% — 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
CENTER draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside New Mexico, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $118k 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
CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $376k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$271k
- National Endowment for the Arts$105k
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 CENTER
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 CENTER: 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 CENTER?
- CENTER (New Mexico) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $464,302 to it, the largest being LEGAL FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON ($213,254). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $464,302 in grants to CENTER, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER?
- LEGAL FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON is the largest funder on record, with $213,254 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 7 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