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CONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO

CONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO (New Mexico) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,888,425 to it, the largest being LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC ($2,792,175). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.4M
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$3.9M
Net assets
$579k
7/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 69%
01What it does

What Conservation Voters New Mexico does

Mission

To hold elected officials accountable for their environmental votes and to educate voters on conservation issues.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Held elected officials accountable for their environmental record by educating the public and voters through the publication and distribution of an annual conservation scorecard. Analyze filed legislation for conservation impacts. Research, develop, draft, and lobby on behalf of pro-conservation legislation. Engage in pro-conservation administrative actions and rulemakings.

    $677,037 spent
    83% of program spending
  2. Endorsed and elected pro-conservation candidates to public office.

    $139,293 spentof which $90,500 as grants$4,528 earned by the program
    17% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $816,330.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($854k) Expenses 100 ($632k) Net assets 100 ($362k)2018 Revenue 136 ($1.2M) Expenses 162 ($1.0M) Net assets 137 ($496k)2019 Revenue 98 ($840k) Expenses 171 ($1.1M) Net assets 70 ($255k)2020 Revenue 137 ($1.2M) Expenses 129 ($818k) Net assets 166 ($603k)2021 Revenue 185 ($1.6M) Expenses 169 ($1.1M) Net assets 308 ($1.1M)2022 Revenue 224 ($1.9M) Expenses 294 ($1.9M) Net assets 358 ($1.3M)2023 Revenue 159 ($1.4M) Expenses 283 ($1.8M) Net assets 232 ($840k)2024 Revenue 160 ($1.4M) Expenses 258 ($1.6M) Net assets 160 ($579k)
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Revenue (160)Expenses (258)Net assets (160)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $644k to $1.2M (+82%).

$403k
$550k
$301k
$644k
$1.2M
$1.5M
$1.1M
$985k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$222k
’17
$134k
’18
−$242k
’19
$348k
’20
$513k
’21
$58k
’22
−$429k
’23
−$261k
’24
4.9
months of
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

Demis R Foster

CEO

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed101010910111415
Joined·+3+0+1+1+2+4+2
No longer listed·3020111
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $15k → $570k.

1 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 CONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO’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

CONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 CONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO.

72%
largest funder
90%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 84% · 2019 76% · 2020 88% · 2021 90% · 2022 59% · 2023 72% — 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.

How long its funders stay

44% of CONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

CONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New Mexico, across 8 states in all.

WA
NY
OH
CA
CO
VA
NM
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
New Mexico out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like CONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

50% of spending goes to programs.

Program 50%Management 29%Fundraising 21%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NM

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Cvnm Education Fund · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds CONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO?
CONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO (New Mexico) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,888,425 to it, the largest being LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC ($2,792,175). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $3,888,425 in grants to CONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO?
LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,792,175 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 13 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing