New Mexico · Nonprofit
Lama Foundation
Lama Foundation (New Mexico) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $74,436 to it, the largest being JONATHAN & KATHLEEN ALTMAN FNDTN ($70,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $268k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $74k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Lama Foundation does
Mission
A sustainale spiritual community and educational center dedicated to the awakening of consciousness spiritual practice and respect for all traditions services and stewardship of the land.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
SUMMER PROGRAMS: Educational retreats programs and workshops conducted in a variety of subjects including spiritual retreats seminars Dharma Gates Grow Here Now Teen Mindfulness Tai Chi Mountain Song Church of Conscious Harmony
$66,629 spent$108,704 earned by the program36% of program spendingInstitute Residency: Residency is a primary focus of Lama Foundation and is year round. There were eight year-round adult residents and one minor child in 2025 and they maintain Lama hold various offerings like meditation yoga heart club practice and tuning Shabbat and various spiritual practices throughout the week season year.
$111,008 spent$106,253 earned by the program61% of program spendingSummer interns stewards spend the summer at Lama and help serve retreats and program participants. There were approximately 50 Summer Interns in 2025 and income expenses are included in Summer Program above.
$0 spent0% of program spendingFORM 990 PART III LINE 4e -OTHER PROGRAM INFO - Flag Mt. Creates designs and prints prayer flags for sale on line and in our small store at Lama Foundation only open during retreats in the summer. Here staff interns and volunteers learn about silk screen printing along with making prayer beads and other related items. Revenues: 15,253 Expenses: 5,715
$5,715 spent$15,253 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $183,352.
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 2019 to 2020, from $1.3M to $1.6M (+21%).
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.
1% of Lama Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $6k → $10k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 Lama Foundation’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
Lama Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 99%; 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: 2017 100% · 2018 92% · 2019 94% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 76% · 2023 99% — 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
95% of Lama Foundation'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. $436 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
Lama Foundation holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Lama Foundation
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
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
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 Lama Foundation: 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 Lama Foundation?
- Lama Foundation (New Mexico) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $74,436 to it, the largest being JONATHAN & KATHLEEN ALTMAN FNDTN ($70,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Lama Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $74,436 in grants to Lama Foundation, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Lama Foundation?
- JONATHAN & KATHLEEN ALTMAN FNDTN is the largest funder on record, with $70,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Lama Foundation 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 5 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