New Mexico · Nonprofit
Downtown ABQ Mainstreet Initiative
Downtown ABQ Mainstreet Initiative (New Mexico) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $601,031 to it, the largest being ALBUQUERQUE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($279,700). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
Downtown ABQ Mainstreet Initiative's revenue grew 47% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,946 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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.
- Marshall L and Perrine D McCune Charitable Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio match
- New Mexico Fund for Women and Girlsshared funderslocal
- Meow Wolf Philanthropic Foundationportfolio 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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 23% · 2018 25% · 2019 29% · 2020 53% · 2021 37% · 2022 38% · 2023 54% · 2024 52%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of Downtown ABQ Mainstreet Initiative’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $126k → $45k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 Downtown ABQ Mainstreet Initiative’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
Downtown ABQ Mainstreet Initiative leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
93% 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 Downtown ABQ Mainstreet Initiative.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 74% · 2019 67% · 2020 74% · 2022 100% · 2023 78% — 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
68% of Downtown ABQ Mainstreet Initiative'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 $190k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from New Mexico funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $411k 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.
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. Your 7 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Marshall L and Perrine D McCune Charitable Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio matchNM · backs 107 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- New Mexico Fund for Women and Girlsshared funderslocalNM · backs 35 organizations that share your funders · funds 23 organizations near you
- Meow Wolf Philanthropic Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Durango Area Tourism Office Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hancock Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Redlineportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New Mexico Humanities Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Taos Community Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Civic Space Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bonfils-Stanton Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Boston Main Streets Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Anchorum St Vincentshared fundersNM · backs 39 organizations that share your funders
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.
Government funding Downtown ABQ Mainstreet Initiative receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $448k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$438k
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
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 Downtown ABQ Mainstreet Initiative
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
87% 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 Downtown ABQ Mainstreet Initiative: 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 Downtown ABQ Mainstreet Initiative?
- Downtown ABQ Mainstreet Initiative (New Mexico) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $601,031 to it, the largest being ALBUQUERQUE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($279,700). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Downtown ABQ Mainstreet Initiative have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $601,031 in grants to Downtown ABQ Mainstreet Initiative, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Downtown ABQ Mainstreet Initiative?
- ALBUQUERQUE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $279,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Downtown ABQ Mainstreet Initiative 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 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