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Excellent Schools New Mexico

Excellent Schools New Mexico (New Mexico) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,103,507 to it, the largest being CITY FUND ($2,700,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.5M
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$8.1M
Net assets
$2.9M
10/15 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Excellent Schools New Mexico does

Mission

Excellent Schools New Mexico is nonprofit organization that identifies New Mexicos most promising public schools and school leaders, makes data-driven investments to fund their growth, and provides ongoing support to expand their impact.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Excellent Schools New Mexico made investments to help grow and replicate several schools and to launch a new school.

    $1,335,413 spentof which $965,812 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,335,413.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.6M) Expenses 100 ($683k) Net assets 100 ($1.8M)2018 Revenue 134 ($2.2M) Expenses 250 ($1.7M) Net assets 128 ($2.3M)2019 Revenue 76 ($1.2M) Expenses 179 ($1.2M) Net assets 129 ($2.3M)2020 Revenue 46 ($758k) Expenses 142 ($972k) Net assets 117 ($2.1M)2021 Revenue 31 ($512k) Expenses 133 ($911k) Net assets 95 ($1.7M)2022 Revenue 92 ($1.5M) Expenses 115 ($786k) Net assets 136 ($2.4M)2023 Revenue 180 ($3.0M) Expenses 227 ($1.6M) Net assets 215 ($3.8M)2024 Revenue 79 ($1.3M) Expenses 336 ($2.3M) Net assets 159 ($2.8M)2025 Revenue 89 ($1.5M) Expenses 205 ($1.4M) Net assets 162 ($2.9M)
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Revenue (89)Expenses (205)Net assets (162)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $2.5M to $4.0M (+59%).

$1.8M
$2.5M
$2.4M
$2.2M
$1.8M
$2.5M
$4.0M
$3.0M
$2.9M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 3% · 2021 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

96% of Excellent Schools New Mexico’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$960k
’17
$497k
’18
$23k
’19
−$214k
’20
−$398k
’21
$726k
’22
$1.4M
’23
−$992k
’24
$58k
’25
23
months of
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.

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Listed101111101010121313
Joined·+1+0+0+0+1+2+2+0
No longer listed·00101010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $842k → $1.6M.

4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 Excellent Schools 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

Excellent Schools New Mexico leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

48% 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 Excellent Schools New Mexico.

33%
largest funder
75%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 81% · 2019 43% · 2020 64% · 2021 42% · 2022 59% · 2023 57% — 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

50% of Excellent Schools New Mexico's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

Excellent Schools New Mexico draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside New Mexico, across 7 states in all.

NY
MA
OR
CA
CO
NM
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
New Mexico out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $145k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Excellent Schools New Mexico holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · above the median
Months of reserve23.1mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like Excellent Schools 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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 4%Fundraising 1%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

58%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NM

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Excellent Schools 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 Excellent Schools New Mexico?
Excellent Schools New Mexico (New Mexico) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,103,507 to it, the largest being CITY FUND ($2,700,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Excellent Schools New Mexico have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $8,103,507 in grants to Excellent Schools New Mexico, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Excellent Schools New Mexico?
CITY FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,700,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Excellent Schools 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.

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 15 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