New Mexico · Nonprofit
LEA COUNTY MUSEUM INC
LEA COUNTY MUSEUM INC (New Mexico) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $175,316 to it, the largest being JF Maddox Foundation ($127,426). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $62k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $175k
- Net assets
- $676k
What Lea County Museum Inc does
Mission
To collect, preserve, educate, & display regional art, artifacts, and buildings. Significant activities art displays, concert series, and book publishing.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The museum continuously displays art and artifacts which depict lea county's heritage and provide free admission. The museum offers tours to local schools to view the art and exhibits.
$44,172 spent100% of program spendingThe museum will have gallery showings throughout the year displaying small local artists' art for view and sale.
Other programs held throughout the year include open to the public readings by seasoned writers and country/folk artists will perform at the museum.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $44,172.
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 $739k to $642k (−13%).
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 22% · 2018 14% · 2019 16% · 2020 52% · 2021 8% · 2022 13% · 2023 40% · 2024 50%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of LEA COUNTY MUSEUM INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% 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 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $4k → $6k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 LEA COUNTY MUSEUM INC’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
LEA COUNTY MUSEUM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 93%; 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 63% · 2018 100% · 2019 94% · 2020 50% · 2021 87% · 2022 97% · 2023 86% — growing more concentrated.
“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
86% of LEA COUNTY MUSEUM INC'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. $140 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
LEA COUNTY MUSEUM INC is better cushioned than half of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like LEA COUNTY MUSEUM INC
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
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 LEA COUNTY MUSEUM INC: 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 LEA COUNTY MUSEUM INC?
- LEA COUNTY MUSEUM INC (New Mexico) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $175,316 to it, the largest being JF Maddox Foundation ($127,426). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEA COUNTY MUSEUM INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $175,316 in grants to LEA COUNTY MUSEUM INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEA COUNTY MUSEUM INC?
- JF Maddox Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $127,426 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEA COUNTY MUSEUM INC 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 7 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