New Mexico · Nonprofit
NEW MEXICO APPLESEED
NEW MEXICO APPLESEED (New Mexico) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,530,396 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($1,211,500). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $566k
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What New Mexico Appleseed does
Mission
New Mexico Appleseed is a nonpartisan, non-profit organization focused on improving the lives of the poor and underserved through systemic change. New Mexico Appleseed works on the systemic level to design, test, and implement practical solutions to difficult issues.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Family economic security new mexico is facing a growing crisis of babies born with substance use exposure and their suffering from substance use disorder (sud) creating significant challenges for our communities and threatening the well-being of our most vulnerable children. With high rates of child maltreatment, primarily due to neglect, there is a critical need for innovative solutions that can stabilize families in crisis. New Mexico Appleseed has responded with a bold proposal to stabilize both parents and babies: the basic income for baby success (bibs) program, designed to provide direct cash assistance to caregivers of infants born with substance exposure. This initiative is grounded in comprehensive research and community input, aimed at creating a model that offers immediate relief while addressing deeper systemic issues.
$170,627 spent37% of program spendingHomelessness for more than 12 years, New Mexico Appleseed has focused on the educational needs of students experiencing homelessness, couch surf, live in motels. Or somehow cram themselves into an overcrowded home with other family. This commitment is rooted in the belief that every child, regardless of housing status, deserves equal access to education. Through targeted policies and innovative programs, New Mexico Appleseed aims to address the specific challenges these students face, promoting both short-term stability and long-term success. Building on the pilot's success, New Mexico Appleseed is proposing a statewide guaranteed payment for attendance (gpa) program to reach 1,500 mckinney-vento students. This initiative will offer monthly payments of 500, contingent on regular school attendance, to help students surmount the financial and social challenges they face. With an estimated 10 million annual budget, gpa aims to raise new mexico's graduation rate for mckinney vento students, setting a precedent in supporting homeless youth and enhancing statewide graduation rates.
$134,169 spent29% of program spendingHunger New Mexico Appleseed, in partnership with the new mexico department of health (doh), is working on efforts to increase enrollment and participation in the women, infants, and children (wic) program. This program provides essential nutritional support to low-income pregnant women, new mothers, infants, and young children. Recognizing the program's potential to alleviate food insecurity and improve health outcomes, New Mexico Appleseed and is working with the doh to craft several innovative strategies to address barriers to wic participation, especially in rural and high-poverty areas. These strategies aim to ensure that more families can benefit from wic's support, contributing to better health for the entire household.
$112,384 spent25% of program spendingEvidence-based policymaking New Mexico Appleseed has long focused on creating data-driven solutions to address child poverty and improve social outcomes. One of our most significant projects, the family success lab (the lab) at the new mexico department of health (doh), is the result of years of advocacy for an integrated data system that helps the state better identify the needs of vulnerable children and families. Although initial efforts to pass legislation in 2017 to formally create the family success lab were unsuccessful, we achieved our goal through state appropriations. Today, the family success lab could play a crucial role in evaluating state programs for children and ensuring resources are effectively allocated to prevent childhood adversity and promote best practices.
$38,657 spent8% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $455,837.
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 $1.0M to $1.6M (+57%).
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: 2019 43% · 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of NEW MEXICO APPLESEED’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Dale Dekker
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 9 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $80k → $57k.
7 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 NEW MEXICO APPLESEED’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
NEW MEXICO APPLESEED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
36% 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 NEW MEXICO APPLESEED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 19% · 2018 42% · 2019 31% · 2020 42% · 2021 43% · 2022 89% · 2023 35% — 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.
How long its funders stay
29% of NEW MEXICO APPLESEED's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
NEW MEXICO APPLESEED draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside New Mexico, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $300k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
NEW MEXICO APPLESEED holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like NEW MEXICO APPLESEED
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
62%
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 NEW MEXICO APPLESEED: 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 NEW MEXICO APPLESEED?
- NEW MEXICO APPLESEED (New Mexico) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,530,396 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($1,211,500). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEW MEXICO APPLESEED have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $2,530,396 in grants to NEW MEXICO APPLESEED, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW MEXICO APPLESEED?
- WK Kellogg Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,211,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW MEXICO APPLESEED 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 27 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