New Mexico · Nonprofit
FOUNDATION FOR LAS CRUCES MUSEUMS
FOUNDATION FOR LAS CRUCES MUSEUMS (New Mexico) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,157 to it, the largest being BINNS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $14k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $1k
- Net assets
- $134k
What Foundation for Las Cruces Museums does
Mission
Create financial and public support for museums.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The foundation sponsors major fundraising activities such as shake your caboose event, native american rug auction and rat on the stick booth at the renaissance faire. These events are very special in raising funds for the benefit of the foundation and each of the museums. The foundation also sponsors the senior high school art show and purchases art works for the museum's permanent collection. The foundation is one of the sponsors for the appreciation event for museum volunteers, and sponsors an informal holiday luncheon for museum staff and volunteers.
$10,565 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $10,565.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $60k to $114k (+90%).
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.
6% of FOUNDATION FOR LAS CRUCES MUSEUMS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (95% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $52 → $36.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 FOUNDATION FOR LAS CRUCES MUSEUMS’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
FOUNDATION FOR LAS CRUCES MUSEUMS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 56% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
98% of FOUNDATION FOR LAS CRUCES MUSEUMS's grant income comes from New Mexico funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $134 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
FOUNDATION FOR LAS CRUCES MUSEUMS's revenue fell 60% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,183 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like FOUNDATION FOR LAS CRUCES MUSEUMS
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.
Public support
68%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR LAS CRUCES MUSEUMS?
- FOUNDATION FOR LAS CRUCES MUSEUMS (New Mexico) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,157 to it, the largest being BINNS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOUNDATION FOR LAS CRUCES MUSEUMS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $1,157 in grants to FOUNDATION FOR LAS CRUCES MUSEUMS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOUNDATION FOR LAS CRUCES MUSEUMS?
- BINNS FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOUNDATION FOR LAS CRUCES MUSEUMS 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