New Mexico · Nonprofit
CONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO EDUCATION FUND
CONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO EDUCATION FUND (New Mexico) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,988,419 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION ($810,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $885k
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $5.0M
- Net assets
- $601k
What Conservation Voters New Mexico Education Fund does
Mission
Cvnm education fund is a statewide, nonpartisan nonprofit committed to engaging the people of new mexico in our long-standing shared values of protecting our air, land, water, and the health of our communities. We do this by mobilizing people to advocate on policy, enhancing the voting process, encouraging people to vote, cultivating conservation leaders and amplifying the voices of those most affected.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Conservation Voters New Mexico Education Fund helps people make real changes in their communities by protecting and improving the quality of their water, air, neighborhoods, farmlands, and wildlife. We work to give citizens the knowledge and skills they need to be effective advocates for conservation and engage in decision-making spaces.
$378,769 spentof which $1,750 as grants83% of program spendingBuild capacity among the broader new mexico environmental community by fostering collaboration, developing unified goals and priorities, and providing training to environmental allies. Lobby on behalf of pro- environment legislation, to the extent permissible, at the new mexico state legislature.
$76,127 spent17% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $454,896.
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. 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 2017 to 2018, from $206k to $923k (+348%).
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.
96% of CONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO EDUCATION FUND’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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
Demis R Foster
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $235k → $789k.
9 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $7k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Conservation Voters New Mexico). These are real filings, and they are not money CONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO EDUCATION FUND raised.
From the IRS filings of CONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO EDUCATION FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 funders by total. 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 EDUCATION FUND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
79% 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 EDUCATION FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 42% · 2019 41% · 2020 23% · 2021 19% · 2022 31% · 2023 27% — 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
42% of CONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO EDUCATION FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
CONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO EDUCATION FUND draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside New Mexico, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
CONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO EDUCATION FUND is better cushioned than half of the 1,800 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,800 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like CONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO EDUCATION FUND
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
44% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Conservation Voters New Mexico · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO EDUCATION FUND: 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 CONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO EDUCATION FUND?
- CONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO EDUCATION FUND (New Mexico) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,988,419 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION ($810,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO EDUCATION FUND have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $4,988,419 in grants to CONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO EDUCATION FUND, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO EDUCATION FUND?
- UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $810,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO EDUCATION FUND 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 38 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