New Mexico · Nonprofit
LA PLAZITA INSTITUTE
LA PLAZITA INSTITUTE (New Mexico) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,456,296 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($2,260,500). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $8.5M
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What La Plazita Institute does
Mission
To strengthen community and enable youth to leave behind destructive lifestyles by tapping into their roots to express core values.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The barrio youth corps is a dynamic workforce development program dedicated to hiring and empowering system-impacted youth of color, with a special focus on indigenous youth from neighboring native communities. Through meaningful employment and mentorship, we provide pathways to skill-building, leadership, and community engagement.
$294,291 spent$264,496 earned by the program23% of program spendingPathways is designed to reduce unmet needs, address health inequities & improve the overall health of low income, unisured adults and parents with young children with multiple unmet needs.
$171,432 spent$82,508 earned by the program13% of program spendingFoodcorps nm is dedicated to equipping their service members with the skills, knowledge and experiences to address the root cause of food injustice, while also providing hands on training and technical assistance in various subjects.
$255,003 spent$102,526 earned by the program20% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$557,370 spent$725,133 earned by the program44% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,278,096.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $1.5M to $2.2M (+48%).
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.
49% of LA PLAZITA INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% 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.
Chief executive
Albino Garcia Jr
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $247k → $1.5M.
10 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 PLAZITA INSTITUTE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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
LA PLAZITA INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 27% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
25% 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 PLAZITA INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 52% · 2019 54% · 2020 49% · 2021 37% · 2022 32% · 2023 35% — 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
35% of LA PLAZITA INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
LA PLAZITA INSTITUTE draws 97% 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. $834k 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
LA PLAZITA INSTITUTE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding LA PLAZITA INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3k on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $3k
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 LA PLAZITA 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
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LA PLAZITA 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 LA PLAZITA INSTITUTE?
- LA PLAZITA INSTITUTE (New Mexico) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,456,296 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($2,260,500). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LA PLAZITA INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $8,456,296 in grants to LA PLAZITA INSTITUTE, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LA PLAZITA INSTITUTE?
- WK Kellogg Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $2,260,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LA PLAZITA 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 35 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing