New Mexico · Nonprofit
NEW MEXICO CENTER ON LAW AND POVERTY
NEW MEXICO CENTER ON LAW AND POVERTY (New Mexico) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,233,786 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($6,701,258). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $5.9M
What New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty does
Mission
The center is dedicated to advancing economic and social justice through education, advocacy and litigation. We work with low-income new mexicans to improve living conditions, increase opportunities and protect the rights of people living in poverty.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education - advance educational opportunities and improve outcomes for new mexican children; protect the rights of students to a sufficient and equitable public education system through legal action; provide research and community engagement to generate systemic improvements to education.
$460,145 spent$530 earned by the program22% of program spendingPublic benefit programs - increase access to nutrition and income assistance programs for low-income new mexicans; protect the rights of public benefits-eligible new mexicans as a group; generate systemic improvements in the benefits, services, eligibility criteria and administration of the programs, and ensure adequate funding of the programs.
$282,959 spent$51,901 earned by the program14% of program spendingHealth care access - increase access to health care coverage and services for low-income children and families; reduce medical debt for the uninsured and under-insured; protect the rights of medicaid recipients; generate systemic improvements in the policies, benefits, services, and administration of health care programs intended to serve low-income new mexicans; and provide research and analyses of health care proposals.
$408,086 spent$159,150 earned by the program20% of program spendingProgram service expenses: 397,379, grants and allocations: 0,revenue: 182,075 economic equity - protect income and assets for low-income new mexicans against unfair economic practices; increase access to fair loans and reduce abusive and wrongful debt collections; generate systemic improvements to policies, services and administration of affordable housing; and protect the rights of low-income new mexicans against evictions and discriminatory housing practices. Program service expenses: 478,469, grants and allocations: 0, revenue: 231,467 workers' rights - promote fair treatment of workers by investigating the working conditions of low-income workers and their treatment by employers, informing workers of their rights and employers of their obligations under the law, compelling government agencies to enforce labor laws and filing legal actions.
$893,967 spent$413,542 earned by the program44% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,045,157.
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. 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 2023 to 2024, from $4.2M to $5.7M (+37%).
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: 2021 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of NEW MEXICO CENTER ON LAW AND POVERTY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $1.7M.
10 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 CENTER ON LAW AND POVERTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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
NEW MEXICO CENTER ON LAW AND POVERTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
47% 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 CENTER ON LAW AND POVERTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 31% · 2019 72% · 2020 62% · 2021 48% · 2022 31% · 2023 25% — 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
48% of NEW MEXICO CENTER ON LAW AND POVERTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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 CENTER ON LAW AND POVERTY draws 77% 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. $2.8M 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
NEW MEXICO CENTER ON LAW AND POVERTY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like NEW MEXICO CENTER ON LAW AND POVERTY
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
61%
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 CENTER ON LAW AND POVERTY: 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 CENTER ON LAW AND POVERTY?
- NEW MEXICO CENTER ON LAW AND POVERTY (New Mexico) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,233,786 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($6,701,258). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEW MEXICO CENTER ON LAW AND POVERTY have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $16,233,786 in grants to NEW MEXICO CENTER ON LAW AND POVERTY, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW MEXICO CENTER ON LAW AND POVERTY?
- WK Kellogg Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $6,701,258 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW MEXICO CENTER ON LAW AND POVERTY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 40 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