New Mexico · Nonprofit
NEW MEXICO HIGHLANDS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
NEW MEXICO HIGHLANDS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC (New Mexico) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,597,092 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($1,266,500). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
NEW MEXICO HIGHLANDS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- New Mexico Community Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Thornburg Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Anchorum Health Foundationportfolio match
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.
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.
72% of NEW MEXICO HIGHLANDS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $143k → $340k.
10 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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: $6.4M from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest New Mexico Highlands University Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money NEW MEXICO HIGHLANDS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of NEW MEXICO HIGHLANDS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC’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 HIGHLANDS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 75% · 2019 100% · 2020 85% · 2021 37% · 2022 67% · 2023 73% — 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
21% of NEW MEXICO HIGHLANDS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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 HIGHLANDS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside New Mexico, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $244k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 30 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- New Mexico Community Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchNM · backs 64 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Thornburg Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchNM · backs 52 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Anchorum Health Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Van Essen Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brindle Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Anchorum St Vincentportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nusenda Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Thurgood Marshall College Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Delta Dental Plan of New Mexico Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Norwich Universityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Con Alma Health Foundation Incshared fundersNM · backs 67 organizations that share your funders
- Ernest Wentcher Educational Fundshared fundersIL · backs 47 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like NEW MEXICO HIGHLANDS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
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 HIGHLANDS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds NEW MEXICO HIGHLANDS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC?
- NEW MEXICO HIGHLANDS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC (New Mexico) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,597,092 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($1,266,500). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEW MEXICO HIGHLANDS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $2,597,092 in grants to NEW MEXICO HIGHLANDS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW MEXICO HIGHLANDS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,266,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW MEXICO HIGHLANDS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 30funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing