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LA CARES

LA CARES (New Mexico) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,771 to it, the largest being BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE ($11,522). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$228k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$12k
Net assets
$215k
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What La Cares does

Mission

Run a food pantry and assist with housing and utility payments.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Other program services: Supplies, tax filing, website, insurance, volunteer appreciation, PayPal fees on donations

    $5,658 spent
    5% of program spending
  2. Phone

    $394 spent
    0% of program spending
  3. Assisted 74 families with utility payments.

    $30,924 spent
    25% of program spending
  4. Assisted 77 families with monthly rent or mortgage assistance

    $36,424 spent
    29% of program spending
  5. Food pantry expenses: Provide food assistance to low income individuals/families for an emergency and distribute food on a monthly basis. Assist 80-120 families per month..

    $50,733 spent
    41% of program spending

The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $124,133.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($132k) Expenses 100 ($84k) Net assets 100 ($98k)2021 Revenue 103 ($135k) Expenses 114 ($96k) Net assets 140 ($137k)2022 Revenue 76 ($101k) Expenses 137 ($115k) Net assets 125 ($122k)2023 Revenue 80 ($105k) Expenses 159 ($133k) Net assets 96 ($94k)2024 Revenue 113 ($150k) Expenses 158 ($132k) Net assets 114 ($111k)2025 Revenue 173 ($228k) Expenses 148 ($124k) Net assets 221 ($215k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (173)Expenses (148)Net assets (221)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 2024 to 2025, from $111k to $215k (+94%).

$98k
$137k
$122k
$94k
$111k
$215k
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of LA CARES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,373 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$48k
’20
$39k
’21
−$14k
’22
−$28k
’23
$17k
’24
$104k
’25
21
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.

20222025
Listed97
Joined··
No longer listed··
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $56 → $43.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
'25*
total
funders
1
2
1
1
1

1 of 2 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 LA CARES’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

LA CARES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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

100% 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 LA CARES.

98%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

LA CARES draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New Mexico, across 1 state in all.

OH

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $249 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LA CARES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.

Operating margin46% · top quartile
Months of reserve20.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like LA CARES

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

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

88%

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 LA CARES: 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 LA CARES?
LA CARES (New Mexico) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,771 to it, the largest being BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE ($11,522). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LA CARES have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $11,771 in grants to LA CARES, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LA CARES?
BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE is the largest funder on record, with $11,522 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LA CARES 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 2 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