New Mexico · Nonprofit
NATIONAL GHOST RANCH FOUNDATION
NATIONAL GHOST RANCH FOUNDATION (New Mexico) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,409,897 to it, the largest being SEATTLE FOUNDATION ($300,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $12M
What National Ghost Ranch Foundation does
Mission
Ghost ranch education & retreat center fosters well-being and spiritual health through this historic, inspiring southwest landscape. Our values are to: 1. Honor this sacred land, communities, history and faith heritage 2. Extend hospitality to all 3. Encourage contemplative thought 4. Foster freedom of creative expression 5. Facilitate the transformative intersection of ideas.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provided operational and financial support to the visitor experience at the ghost ranch education and retreat center located in abiquiu, new mexico.
$4,439,694 spent$4,724,735 earned by the program81% of program spendingProvided operational and financial support to the education programs at ghost ranch education and retreat center located in abiquiu, new mexico.
$877,513 spent$879,982 earned by the program16% of program spendingProvided operational and financial support to the museums at ghost ranch education and retreat center located in abiquiu, new mexico.
$140,310 spent$34,711 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,457,517.
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 2024 to 2025, from $8.3M to $15M (+77%).
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: 2020 5% · 2021 8% · 2023 10% · 2024 2% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
52% of NATIONAL GHOST RANCH FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
David Evans
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $68k → $222k.
9 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 GHOST RANCH FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 24 of 25 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
NATIONAL GHOST RANCH FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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
50% 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 NATIONAL GHOST RANCH FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 47% · 2019 51% · 2020 48% · 2021 33% · 2022 31% · 2023 19% — 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
78% of NATIONAL GHOST RANCH FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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 NATIONAL GHOST RANCH FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $701k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from funders outside New Mexico, across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $709k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
NATIONAL GHOST RANCH FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 127 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 127 religion nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like NATIONAL GHOST RANCH 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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
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 NATIONAL GHOST RANCH 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 NATIONAL GHOST RANCH FOUNDATION?
- NATIONAL GHOST RANCH FOUNDATION (New Mexico) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,409,897 to it, the largest being SEATTLE FOUNDATION ($300,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NATIONAL GHOST RANCH FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $1,409,897 in grants to NATIONAL GHOST RANCH FOUNDATION, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL GHOST RANCH FOUNDATION?
- SEATTLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL GHOST RANCH 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 25 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing