New Mexico · Nonprofit
DISABILITY RIGHTS NEW MEXICO
DISABILITY RIGHTS NEW MEXICO (New Mexico) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $457,618 to it, the largest being STATE BAR OF NEW MEXICO ($282,518). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $458k
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Disability Rights New Mexico does
Mission
To protect, promote, and expand the legal and civil rights of persons with disabilities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Padd - protection and advocacy for individuals with developmental disabilities: in this program area, drnm provided legal advocacy services to 159 individuals with developmental disabilities or their families to overcome barriers to accessing the services they needed; to investigate and resolve abuse or neglect, or address other violations of their legal rights. Over 60% of these individuals were from minority or underserved communities. Drnm continues to work on individual cases and systemic legal rights issues for persons with developmental disabilities. Drnm padd staff provided 8 trainings and staffed 10 informational booths at conferences and other events. There were 268 persons that received training. Some of the issues that drnm worked on this period were: 1. Investigations of abuse/neglect 2. Restrictive guardianship/representative payee issues 3. Rights based individuals advocacy 4. Competitive, inclusive employment, that eliminates sub-minimum wage. 5. Reasonable accommodations under title I ada 6. Access to community-based services 7. Access to appropriate special education services 8. Access to higher education and accommodations
$578,796 spent24% of program spendingPaimi - protection and advocacy for individuals with mental illness: in this program, drnm provided advocacy to 106 individuals with severe mental illness. Over 62% of these individuals were from minority communities and underserved areas and about two-thirds were in residential mental health facilities at the time. Problems addressed in these cases included alleged abuse, neglect, (including lack of adequate or appropriate treatment services), or other rights violations due to a mental health diagnosis. Drnm conducted at least 28 public trainings and staffed 6 outreach events for paimi in around the state. Drnm staff worked on the following individual and systemic issues: 1. Mental health facility monitoring 2. Investigations of abuse/neglect 3. Seclusion/restraint (including physical and chemical restraint) 4. Guardianship and treatment guardianship issues 5. Appropriate discharge planning 6. Rights of individuals in in-patient mental health facilities 7. Access to community-based services 8. Rights based individual advocacy 9. Board and care facilities monitoring
$416,714 spent$29,840 earned by the program18% of program spendingProtection and advocacy for beneficiaries of social security: drnm provides assistance under two grants to these individuals. Under the protection and advocacy for beneficiaries of social security (pabss) grant, drnm assists beneficiaries of social security who have disabilities. This program was designed to assist people with disabilities who are on social security benefits to return to work. The goal of pabss is to assist beneficiaries with those barriers that prevent them from retaining or returning to gainful employment. Drnm helps individuals navigate the ssa system, appeal overpayment issues, and transition to gainful employment with the ticket-to-work program. Under the second grant, we also provide oversight of the ssa representative payee program to ensure that beneficiaries of social security benefits are free from financial exploitation. The pabss program, drnm assisted 42 individuals. Additionally, this funding supported drnm filed a class action case, duggan v. Adelante development center. With other litigation partners, drnm represented 237 individuals with disabilities who had been paid sub-minimum wages when employed by adelante development center. This class…
$356,029 spent15% of program spendingPair - protection and advocacy for individual rights: the pair program at drnm serves individuals who have disabilities other than mental illness or developmental disabilities. Drnm assisted 92 individuals and provided information and referral (I&r) to 137 callers in this program fiscal year, addressing accessibility problems, housing discrimination, barriers in accessing needed health care and support services as well as allegations of abuse or neglect. Pair staff also conducted trainings on disability services, healthcare, employment, public access and the rights of persons with disabilities. Drnm had a total of 590 individuals receiving training or information on legal rights. Drnm provided information and training on expanded opportunities to access in the following areas: 1. Investigations of abuse/neglect 2. Rights based advocacy 3. Access to community-based services 4. Access to appropriate special education services 5. Public access under ada 6. Appropriate access to medicaid self-directed programs 7. Access to accessible housing 8. Employment and reasonable accommodations drnm filed a class action case, m.g. V. Armijo (nm health care authority). On behalf of 250 children…
$1,019,436 spent$489,948 earned by the program43% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,370,975.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $2.0M to $2.4M (+21%).
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: 2017 89% · 2018 87% · 2019 85% · 2020 79% · 2021 86% · 2022 94% · 2023 91% · 2024 67%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Gary D Housepian
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $15k → $161k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 DISABILITY RIGHTS 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
DISABILITY RIGHTS NEW MEXICO 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
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 DISABILITY RIGHTS NEW MEXICO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 53% — 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
100% of DISABILITY RIGHTS NEW MEXICO's grant income comes from New Mexico funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $175k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Government funding DISABILITY RIGHTS NEW MEXICO receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15.1M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$9.8M
- Department of Education$2.8M
- Social Security Administration$2.5M
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 DISABILITY RIGHTS 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% 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 DISABILITY RIGHTS NEW MEXICO: 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 DISABILITY RIGHTS NEW MEXICO?
- DISABILITY RIGHTS NEW MEXICO (New Mexico) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $457,618 to it, the largest being STATE BAR OF NEW MEXICO ($282,518). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DISABILITY RIGHTS NEW MEXICO have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $457,618 in grants to DISABILITY RIGHTS NEW MEXICO, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DISABILITY RIGHTS NEW MEXICO?
- STATE BAR OF NEW MEXICO is the largest funder on record, with $282,518 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DISABILITY RIGHTS 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.
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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 2017–2024), 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