New Mexico · Nonprofit
CIMARRON WATERSHED ALLIANCE INC
CIMARRON WATERSHED ALLIANCE INC (New Mexico) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,955 to it, the largest being TURNER FOUNDATION INC ($40,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.8M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $65k
- Net assets
- $794k
What Cimarron Watershed Alliance Inc does
Mission
To restore, maintain, and/or preserve surface and groundwater quality, aquatic resources, and water supplies. Serve as a resource on watershed issues and information. To protect, restore, and maintain natural resources (land, water, forest, and wildlife) in the watershed.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The cwa was created as a result of a watershed study done by the new mexico environment department, as required by the united states department of environmental protection. This study resulted in the adoption of several total maximum daily load (tmdl) reports that identified certain problems in creeks and rivers within the cimarron watershed. These problems included turbidity, temperature, aluminum, and fecal coliform. The cwa was formed to help address these problems at the local level with local input. A list of concerns and possible actions were identified by the cwa members. However, the cwa recognized that to be effective it must limit its efforts to a finite number of these issues at any one time. Therefore, the members' first step was to categorize their objectives into long-term and short-term solutions. These categories were then narrowed to what the members believed to be most critical for the future health of the watershed. These included: replanting riparian areas, reducing forest biomass, and improving wastewater management throughout the county.
$4,157,646 spent$553,958 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,157,646.
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 2023 to 2024, from $34k to $457k (+1261%).
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: 2024 89% · 2025 88%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of CIMARRON WATERSHED ALLIANCE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $25k → $20k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 CIMARRON WATERSHED ALLIANCE 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
CIMARRON WATERSHED ALLIANCE INC 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 CIMARRON WATERSHED ALLIANCE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 60% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
CIMARRON WATERSHED ALLIANCE INC draws 73% of its grant income from funders outside New Mexico, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
CIMARRON WATERSHED ALLIANCE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CIMARRON WATERSHED ALLIANCE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $311k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$211k
- Department of the Interior$100k
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 CIMARRON WATERSHED ALLIANCE 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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 CIMARRON WATERSHED ALLIANCE 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 CIMARRON WATERSHED ALLIANCE INC?
- CIMARRON WATERSHED ALLIANCE INC (New Mexico) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,955 to it, the largest being TURNER FOUNDATION INC ($40,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CIMARRON WATERSHED ALLIANCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $64,955 in grants to CIMARRON WATERSHED ALLIANCE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CIMARRON WATERSHED ALLIANCE INC?
- TURNER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CIMARRON WATERSHED ALLIANCE 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 2020–2025), 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