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NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF NEW MEXICO

NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF NEW MEXICO (New Mexico) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,084 to it, the largest being Merrion Family Foundation ($2,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$58k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$2k
Net assets
$366k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What National Federation of the Blind of New Mexico does

Mission

Self-help for the blind

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Program A: Education, Civil Rights, and Self-Organization - Operated community outreach offices to provide information to the public about blindness and how to help blind people and to locate blind persons in need of assistance. Provided assistance to blind people to attend seminars and workshops designed to assist the blind in learning methods and techniques of organizing local groups of blind people for self-help and in learning about library services, rehabilitation services, new technology, aids, devices, and other resources and materials. Developed, produced, or distributed in print, Braille, and/or recorded media materials relating to blindness. Provided information to individuals, employers, governmental agencies, and the general public through written, telephone, personal, and media contacts. Developed and strengthened state and local organizations of the blind (self-help and support groups) and provided legal assistance, encouragement, information, or advocacy assistance to blind persons. Worked to improve services of governmental and private agencies established to give services to the blind through consumer input, technical assistance, and monitoring. It is estimated…

    $4,302 spent
    6% of program spending
  2. Program B: Specialized Programs and Services - Provided scholarships to blind students. Provided direct assistance to individual blind persons to meet specific needs. Sponsored seminars and other activities to assist parents of blind children. Sponsored seminars and other activities to create better employment opportunities for blind persons. Helped to make available specialized aids, devices, tools, and materials for the blind-Braille writing equipment, measuring devices, white canes, clocks, watches, talking calculators, etc. Operated NEWSLINE for the Blind(R), a free digital talking newspaper service available by telephone for the blind. Provided Braille materials to the blind. Made grants to provide services of the kind described herein and to improve educational, vocational, and cultural opportunities for the blind. The activities described herein potentially benefit all blind persons in this state, and improvements in opportunities here expand opportunities for the half million blind persons in the country as well as creating more opportunities for the blind adults of tomorrow.

    $71,092 spentof which $1,259 as grants
    94% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $75,394.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($14k) Expenses 100 ($9k) Net assets 100 ($206k)2021 Revenue 70 ($9k) Expenses 45 ($4k) Net assets 113 ($234k)2022 Revenue 2351 ($320k) Expenses 430 ($37k) Net assets 236 ($487k)2023 Revenue 328 ($45k) Expenses 2613 ($228k) Net assets 168 ($347k)2024 Revenue 500 ($68k) Expenses 898 ($78k) Net assets 173 ($357k)2025 Revenue 423 ($58k) Expenses 930 ($81k) Net assets 178 ($366k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (423)Expenses (930)Net assets (178)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $234k to $487k (+108%).

$206k
$234k
$487k
$347k
$357k
$366k
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$5k
’20
$5k
’21
$282k
’22
−$183k
’23
−$10k
’24
−$24k
’25
155
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $13 → $2k.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1
1
2

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF NEW MEXICO’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

NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF NEW MEXICO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

96%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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

NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF NEW MEXICO draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New Mexico, across 1 state in all.

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Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $84 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF NEW MEXICO

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

90%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NM

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Questions and answers

Who funds NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF NEW MEXICO?
NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF NEW MEXICO (New Mexico) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,084 to it, the largest being Merrion Family Foundation ($2,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF NEW MEXICO have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $2,084 in grants to NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF NEW MEXICO, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF NEW MEXICO?
Merrion Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $2,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF NEW MEXICO 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 2 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