New Mexico · Nonprofit
LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (New Mexico) receives grants from 79 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,825,852 to it, the largest being EUGENE V AND CLARE E THAW CHARITABLE TRUST ($1,500,000). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER has grown faster than half of the 828 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 828 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Albuquerque Convention & Visitors Bureaulocalportfolio match
- New Mexico Humanities Councillocalportfolio match
- Anchorum St Vincentshared funderslocal
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.
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 1% · 2018 5% · 2019 6% · 2020 39% · 2021 36% · 2022 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
33% of LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (80% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 35 funders, grant income rose $78k → $388k.
14 of 79 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $864k from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Santa Fe Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER raised.
From the IRS filings of LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 79 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
LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 25% · 2019 52% · 2020 74% · 2021 26% · 2022 24% · 2023 20% — 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
41% of LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
50% of LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER'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. $604k arriving through sponsors registered in 11 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 79 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Albuquerque Convention & Visitors Bureaulocalportfolio matchNM · funds 45 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- New Mexico Humanities Councillocalportfolio matchNM · funds 39 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Anchorum St Vincentshared funderslocalNM · backs 47 organizations that share your funders · funds 62 organizations near you
- National Association of Latino Arts and Cultureportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Music Matters Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Meow Wolf Philanthropic Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Russell Hill Rogers Fund for the Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National New Play Network Ltdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Endowment Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizonaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Shubert Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nusenda Foundationshared funderslocalNM · backs 80 organizations that share your funders · funds 105 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$50k
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 LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
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 LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER?
- LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (New Mexico) receives grants from 79 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,825,852 to it, the largest being EUGENE V AND CLARE E THAW CHARITABLE TRUST ($1,500,000). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 79 organizations giving $4,825,852 in grants to LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, 51 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER?
- EUGENE V AND CLARE E THAW CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS 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.
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 79funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing