New Mexico · Nonprofit
LA SEMILLA FOOD CENTER
LA SEMILLA FOOD CENTER (New Mexico) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,263,621 to it, the largest being Paso del Norte Health Foundation ($2,748,594). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.8M
- Funders on record
- 53
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $5.0M
What La Semilla Food Center does
Mission
To foster a healthy, self-reliant, fair, and sustainable food system in the paso del norte region.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Community education - we provide educational classes and mentoring opportunities to youth and young adults to raise awareness about the links among food, growing food, health, local economies, fairness and self-determination. We also train community leaders to lead garden and cooking workshops in their communities.
$763,778 spent32% of program spendingEdible education - we work with area schools to promote the enjoyment of the social and cultural activities surrounding food and foster awareness and understanding of the food we eat and the environment that sustains people. This is accomplished using a thorough, effective, and exciting approach to integrating cooking and gardening in the classroom.
$644,437 spent$43,788 earned by the program27% of program spendingFarm fresh - we offer access to fresh and healthy produce and products and provide small-scale farmers with aggregation, distribution, market outlets, technical assistance, and training.
$548,965 spent$195,584 earned by the program23% of program spendingCommunity farm - the farm serves as a production, education, and demonstration site guided by agroecology principles as well as a space for cultural and educational projects that promote healing and creation. Food policy - informed by on-the-ground conditions and leadership, we engage in movement building to shape a fair food system locally, regionally, and nationally. Storytelling policy - we lead a relational foodways cultural strategy that supports power-shifting, uplifts inherently healthy and regenerative traditions, and increases connection with the chihuahuan desert ecosystem.
$458,520 spent$52,545 earned by the program19% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,415,700.
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 2023 to 2024, from $3.3M to $5.4M (+62%).
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 55% · 2018 47% · 2019 24% · 2020 31% · 2021 20% · 2022 33% · 2023 26% · 2024 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of LA SEMILLA FOOD CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% 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.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $368k → $2.4M.
13 of 53 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 SEMILLA FOOD CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 53 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 SEMILLA FOOD CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
60% 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 SEMILLA FOOD CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 58% · 2019 59% · 2020 34% · 2021 22% · 2022 41% · 2023 32% — 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
28% of LA SEMILLA FOOD CENTER'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 SEMILLA FOOD CENTER draws 93% 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. $3.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 SEMILLA FOOD CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,130 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,130 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding LA SEMILLA FOOD CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.0M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$5.0M
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
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 SEMILLA FOOD 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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 LA SEMILLA FOOD CENTER: 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 SEMILLA FOOD CENTER?
- LA SEMILLA FOOD CENTER (New Mexico) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,263,621 to it, the largest being Paso del Norte Health Foundation ($2,748,594). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LA SEMILLA FOOD CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 53 organizations giving $12,263,621 in grants to LA SEMILLA FOOD CENTER, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LA SEMILLA FOOD CENTER?
- Paso del Norte Health Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $2,748,594 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LA SEMILLA FOOD 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 53 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