New Mexico · Nonprofit
FLOWER HILL INSTITUTE
FLOWER HILL INSTITUTE (New Mexico) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $939,463 to it, the largest being NDN COLLECTIVE INC ($200,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $939k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Flower Hill Institute does
Mission
The organizations will engage in activities permissible under section 501(c)(3) including: conducting research and educating the public on issues related to the public on issues related to the environment development, especially but not exclusively, as it relates to native american people, and advocating on behalf of those issues.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Cultural preservation: enhancing efforts that value, support and celebrate native culture, heritage and language as a means of improving health and well-being in tribal communities.
$201,147 spent7% of program spendingYouth & stem/tek education: increasing innovation and science literacy and capacity for the net generation of tribal leaders through promotion of traditional health. Agricultural and environmental conservation.
Agriculture: ensuring long-term strength and stability for tribal communities by expanding their ability to achieve food sovereignty using traditional means and methods.
$2,628,997 spentof which $17,702 as grants93% of program spendingClimate action: ensuring long-term strength and stability for tribal communities by expanding their ability to achieve food sovereignty using traditional means and methods.
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,830,144.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $251k to $823k (+228%).
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: 2020 0% · 2021 53% · 2022 80% · 2023 93% · 2024 82% · 2025 72%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of FLOWER HILL INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
Leslie Elgood
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $10k → $175k.
3 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 FLOWER HILL INSTITUTE’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
FLOWER HILL INSTITUTE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
86% 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 FLOWER HILL INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 52% · 2019 100% · 2020 69% · 2021 67% · 2022 34% · 2023 57% — 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
50% of FLOWER HILL INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
FLOWER HILL INSTITUTE draws 85% of its grant income from funders outside New Mexico, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $372k 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.
Against its field
FLOWER HILL INSTITUTE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding FLOWER HILL INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $13.3M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$13.3M
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 FLOWER HILL INSTITUTE
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
97% 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 FLOWER HILL INSTITUTE: 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 FLOWER HILL INSTITUTE?
- FLOWER HILL INSTITUTE (New Mexico) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $939,463 to it, the largest being NDN COLLECTIVE INC ($200,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FLOWER HILL INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $939,463 in grants to FLOWER HILL INSTITUTE, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FLOWER HILL INSTITUTE?
- NDN COLLECTIVE INC is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FLOWER HILL INSTITUTE 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 2020–2025), 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