New Mexico · Nonprofit
KERES CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER
KERES CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER (New Mexico) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,841,114 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,001,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 43
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $6.8M
What Keres Children's Learning Center does
Mission
We use a comprehensive cultural and montessori curriculum with a keres- language immersion intergenerational approach for students birth to 18 years of age, supporting their parents and community members with language and culture taught by elders, as well as teacher training in the philosophy of indigenous education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
School program-language revitalization montessori school kclc is a keres-language revitalization montessori school using keres immersion and the montessori method to teach 29 children, birth through age 15, in all academic subjects. Kclc uses an intergenerational approach to language revitalization that involves children, their parents, and community elders in reclaiming the education of our children.
$1,606,087 spent$63,303 earned by the program77% of program spendingIndigenous montessori institute the indigenous montessori institute (imi) was created by kclc in 2018 to assist communitites in reclaiming an educational model through teacher preparation that is in service to the community. Imi has two teacher- training tracks: the montessori teacher training track and the philosophy of indigenous education (pie) track, which graduated two cohorts--15 in summer 2024 (indigenous language-immersion approaches course)and 9 in fall 2024 (reclaiming indigenous education course). Imi also provided professional development and training and technical assistance to numerous tribes and communities.
$291,809 spent14% of program spendingMentor-apprentice program six adult apprentices and six elder mentors completed kclcs third mentor- apprentice cohort in which apprentices and mentors spent 15 hours or more each week together in a keres-immersion setting.
$194,054 spent9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,091,950.
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 2022 to 2023, from $2.1M to $6.8M (+231%).
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 24% · 2019 19% · 2020 34% · 2021 51% · 2022 32% · 2023 7% · 2024 17% · 2025 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of KERES CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Curtis Chavez
CEO
Board chair
Jeremy Aliason
Co-chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $307k → $4.1M.
9 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 KERES CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 funders by total. 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
KERES CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
44% 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 KERES CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 59% · 2019 36% · 2020 22% · 2021 21% · 2022 47% · 2023 49% — 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
65% of KERES CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
KERES CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside New Mexico, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
KERES CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding KERES CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.4M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.4M
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 KERES CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds KERES CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER?
- KERES CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER (New Mexico) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,841,114 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,001,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KERES CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $11,841,114 in grants to KERES CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KERES CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,001,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KERES CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER 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 43 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