New Mexico · Nonprofit
KIDS SCIENCE CAFE
KIDS SCIENCE CAFE (New Mexico) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,707 to it, the largest being SOCORRO ELECTRIC FOUNDATION ($8,250). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $17k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $14k
- Net assets
- $5k
What Kids Science Cafe does
Mission
The Kids Science Cafe and Magdalena Teen Science Cafe is an after school out of school educational student outreach program with a focus on Science Technology Engineering Art and Mathematics. The Kids Science Cafe operates Friday from 10AM to 4PM with the Magdalena Teen Science Cafe scheduled on Tuesdays after school from 4PM to 530PM and Friday from 4PM to 6PM. The organization provides high interest activities and engaging projects at no cost to those who choose to participate. Meals and Snacks are provided at no cost to those participating.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Initiated a formal Art program in 2021 Program included drawing, painting, rock polishing for jewelry, pottery, photography and the supplies (both durable and expendable) required for such activities.
$2,309 spent18% of program spendingA lunch and snack program was initiated in 2021 for the Magdalena Teen Science Cafe and the Kids' Science Cafe. Volunteer staff instruct and oversee students in various meal planning, recipe, and preparation skillsets. Meals are provided for 12 to 27 students on a weekly basis. Magdalena is identified as a Title 1 Community
$878 spent7% of program spendingKids and Teen Science Cafe operations are STEM/STEAM centered with instructional topics in biology, microbiology, flight, structural and electrical engineering, astronomy geology, robotics, rocketry, coding and art. Between 5 and 27 students are participating per week depending upon scheduling conflicts (i.e. some students participate in school supported athletic programs where some competitions conflict with scheduled non-profit organization activities).
$8,942 spent69% of program spendingTo support activities in Astronomy, the Kids' Science Cafe' established the only child centered astronomy observatory in the State of New Mexico and perhaps the entire United States (2020). This effort continues in 2021 where funds were used to purchase equipment and materials to establish high-interest learning center in one portion of the facility to enhance student learning, interest, and motivation.
$780 spent6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $12,909.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $4k to $5k (+31%).
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.
100% of KIDS SCIENCE CAFE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $102 → $5k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 KIDS SCIENCE CAFE’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
KIDS SCIENCE CAFE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% 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 100% · 2021 89% · 2022 57% · 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.
Where its funders are
100% of KIDS SCIENCE CAFE'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. $457 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
KIDS SCIENCE CAFE's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,334 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
Organizations like KIDS SCIENCE CAFE
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
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 KIDS SCIENCE CAFE: 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 KIDS SCIENCE CAFE?
- KIDS SCIENCE CAFE (New Mexico) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,707 to it, the largest being SOCORRO ELECTRIC FOUNDATION ($8,250). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KIDS SCIENCE CAFE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $13,707 in grants to KIDS SCIENCE CAFE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KIDS SCIENCE CAFE?
- SOCORRO ELECTRIC FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $8,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KIDS SCIENCE CAFE 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 FY2022 (financials across 2021–2022), 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