New Mexico · Nonprofit
NATIONAL HISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER FOUNDATION
NATIONAL HISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER FOUNDATION (New Mexico) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,964,945 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($400,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $862k
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What National Hispanic Cultural Center Foundation does
Mission
The National Hispanic Cultural Center Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation devoted to raising funds in support of the national hispanic cultural center, a division of the new mexico department of cultural affairs. The foundation supports the mission to preserve, promote, and advance hispanic culture, arts, and literary arts programming.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Membership program - the nhccf's development activities consist of a robust membership program that provides access to special events and preview screenings, and an annual signature gala event entitled "maravilla," which celebrates the accomplishments and impacts of the nhcc. The nhccf obtains significant grants, public, and private support for the nhcc's programs, both through restricted funds and unrestricted gifts.
$230,255 spent35% of program spendingPerforming arts program - the nhccs performing arts program is also supported by grant revenue, ticket sales, corporate sponsorships and private donations. With this support, the performing arts program presents everything from cutting-edge theatre to theatrical interpretations of classic latino works, from riveting contemporary dance to traditional ballet, folklorico and flamenco, from world music festivals to community musical celebrations. With three theaters and over 80,000 tickets sold each year, the nhccs performing arts program brings the diversity and richness of the latino culture to stage for adults and children alike to enjoy.
$24,010 spent4% of program spendingArt museum & visual arts program - the nhcc foundation supports the nhcc's art museum and visual arts program that collects, preserves, researches, exhibits, and interprets hispanic works of art from throughout the world. The art museum uses its 11,000 square feet to display local, national, and international artwork from the hispanic and latino diaspora since opening its doors in october 2000. The nhcc art museum has featured over sixty acclaimed art exhibitions. The centers permanent collection is comprised of approximately 2,000 accessioned objects and some 600 promised gifts, which are rotated on a regular basis into aqui estamos- the permanent exhibition in the art museum. The visual arts program is currently partially supported through grant funding and private donations, with the goal to increase these and other sources of funding.
$169,449 spent26% of program spendingOther program services: history and literary arts program - the nhccf supports the nhccs history & literary arts program that documents, preserves, and makes accessible hispanic history, cultural traditions, and literature. The nhcc library collections encompass books, periodicals, microfilm, video, audio recordings, and long-playing sound recordings concentrated on the history of hispanics and latinos worldwide. The nhcc archives is a repository for rare books, photo and manuscript collections, and the personal papers of prominent new mexicans. The hla program further fulfills its mission through lectures, book signings and book readings, historical and literary exhibits, and short courses. The history and literary arts program is partially supported through grant funding and private donations, with the goal to increase these and other sources of funding. Education program - the nhcc's education program is supported heavily from grant revenue, tuition, corporate sponsorships and private donations. With this support, the education program provides motivating and meaningful educational opportunities for the community in the humanities and sciences through the lens of hispanic…
$235,593 spent36% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $659,307.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.1M to $1.5M (+32%).
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 10% · 2018 13% · 2019 14% · 2020 1% · 2021 12% · 2022 11% · 2023 14% · 2024 5% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
105% of NATIONAL HISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 2 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.
Chief executive
Ernest Rodriguez-Naaz
CEO from dec
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $177k → $357k.
4 of 25 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $54k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Albuquerque Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money NATIONAL HISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL HISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER 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
NATIONAL HISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 40% · 2019 67% · 2020 51% · 2021 51% · 2022 71% · 2023 74% — 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
31% of NATIONAL HISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
NATIONAL HISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER FOUNDATION draws 85% of its grant income from funders outside New Mexico, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 HISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding NATIONAL HISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $460k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$400k
- National Endowment for the Arts$60k
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 NATIONAL HISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER 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
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- National Hispanic Cultural Center · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL HISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER 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 HISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER FOUNDATION?
- NATIONAL HISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER FOUNDATION (New Mexico) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,964,945 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($400,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL HISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $1,964,945 in grants to NATIONAL HISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER FOUNDATION, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL HISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER FOUNDATION?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL HISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing