New Mexico · Nonprofit
DESERT ACADEMY AT SANTA FE
DESERT ACADEMY AT SANTA FE (New Mexico) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,263 to it, the largest being THE SKYLARK FOUNDATION % MANN GELON SMITH SROKA LEE LLP ($17,280). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- New Mexico Fund for Women and Girlsshared funders
- A for Arizonaportfolio match
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.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $6k → $5.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 DESERT ACADEMY AT SANTA FE’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
DESERT ACADEMY AT SANTA FE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
53% 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 DESERT ACADEMY AT SANTA FE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 44% · 2019 82% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 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
53% of DESERT ACADEMY AT SANTA FE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $20k that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from funders outside New Mexico, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $22k 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchNM · backs 46 organizations that share your funders · funds 39 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- New Mexico Fund for Women and Girlsshared fundersNM · backs 26 organizations that share your funders
- A for Arizonaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Opportunity 180portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Project Lead the Way Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dinosaurs and Rosesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arizona Tuition Connection Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arizona Leadership Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Girard Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arizona Strutportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Melville Hankins Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- State Charter Schools Foundation of Georgia Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like DESERT ACADEMY AT SANTA FE
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DESERT ACADEMY AT SANTA FE: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds DESERT ACADEMY AT SANTA FE?
- DESERT ACADEMY AT SANTA FE (New Mexico) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,263 to it, the largest being THE SKYLARK FOUNDATION % MANN GELON SMITH SROKA LEE LLP ($17,280). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DESERT ACADEMY AT SANTA FE have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $42,263 in grants to DESERT ACADEMY AT SANTA FE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DESERT ACADEMY AT SANTA FE?
- THE SKYLARK FOUNDATION % MANN GELON SMITH SROKA LEE LLP is the largest funder on record, with $17,280 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DESERT ACADEMY AT SANTA FE 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 FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 7funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing