New Mexico · Nonprofit
EL REFUGIO
EL REFUGIO (New Mexico) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $210,592 to it, the largest being PNM TNMP FOUNDATION ($66,600). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $211k
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What El Refugio does
Mission
El Refugio inc empowers all persons affected by domestic and sexual violence by providing advocacy education and services in a safe and supportive environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Shelter services: El Refugio, inc operates a shelter 24 hours a day and 7 days a week for battered women and their children. They provide temporary shelter for up to 90 days with 30 day reviews. Longer stays in the shelter are considered on a case by case basis. In this setting, safety and security are provided along with supportive services. These include case management, life skills, victim advocacy, educational classes, linkages and referrals for housing, employment and health programs. Arrangements for male victims can be made as needed.
$604,709 spent60% of program spendingVictim advocacy services: El Refugio has victim advocates who assist in the domestic violence protection order process. Victim advocates educate the victims about their options and provide support and assistance with civil or criminal court proceedings. Victim advocates assist clients to complete or file paperwork for temporary restraining orders, prepare victims for court hearings and refer high risk cases for legal counsel. Victim advocates support clients at court hearings, educate on victims rights and victim compensation. Victim advocates assess clients needs and assist clients and their children in obtaining benefits and/or services needed such as counseling, clothing, housing, food, child care, medical and mental health services. Additionally, victim advocates provide advocacy to battered immigrant women, including assistance with the vawa self-petition application or assistance obtaining legal counsel when necessary.
$360,326 spent36% of program spendingThis is a grant agreement with the united states department of housing and urban development (hud). The scope of the work is to provide a continuum of care program for high-performing communities (hpcs) which are to be used for homelessness prevention activities. The funding areas considered within this grant to the agency were designated for supportive services, operating cost and administrative cost.
$49,868 spent5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,014,903.
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 2024 to 2025, from $1.8M to $2.0M (+12%).
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 95% · 2018 94% · 2019 86% · 2020 88% · 2021 87% · 2022 97% · 2023 87% · 2024 86% · 2025 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of EL REFUGIO’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Rachel Sierra
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $9k → $43k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 EL REFUGIO’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
EL REFUGIO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
66% 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 EL REFUGIO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 82% · 2019 46% · 2020 41% · 2021 58% · 2022 36% · 2023 41% — 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.
How long its funders stay
60% of EL REFUGIO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 88% 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
100% of EL REFUGIO'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. $73k 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.
Against its field
EL REFUGIO runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding EL REFUGIO receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.2M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.2M
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 EL REFUGIO
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
96% 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 EL REFUGIO: 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 EL REFUGIO?
- EL REFUGIO (New Mexico) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $210,592 to it, the largest being PNM TNMP FOUNDATION ($66,600). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EL REFUGIO have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $210,592 in grants to EL REFUGIO, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EL REFUGIO?
- PNM TNMP FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $66,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EL REFUGIO 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 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