New Mexico · Nonprofit
New Mexico Open Elections
New Mexico Open Elections (New Mexico) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $232,000 to it, the largest being UNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE INC ($170,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $130k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $232k
- Net assets
- $33k
What New Mexico Open Elections does
Mission
New Mexico Open Elections (NMOE) was founded in 2015 by Robert (Bob) Perls and is a movement of diverse individuals whose mission is to listen to all New Mexicans and their elected officials and provide reliable information about election reform and representational government to improve our political system.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Continued educating the Albuquerque City Council and theelectorate on alternative voting methods, along with ourexisting coalition
$24,000 spent47% of program spendingAchieved the organizations greatest success thus far by leading a legislativewin for semi-open primaries at the NM Legislature spearheaded by NMOE and supported bya coalition and NMOEs newly formed sister organization, New Mexico Voters First.
$27,000 spent53% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $51,000.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $47k to $33k (−31%).
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.
96% of New Mexico Open Elections’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Sila Avcil
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $100k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 Open Elections’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 Open Elections leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
89% 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 Open Elections.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 60% — 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.
Where its funders are
New Mexico Open Elections draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside New Mexico, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $37k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 Open Elections's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,798 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like New Mexico Open Elections
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.
Public support
98%
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 Open Elections: 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 Open Elections?
- New Mexico Open Elections (New Mexico) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $232,000 to it, the largest being UNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE INC ($170,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does New Mexico Open Elections have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $232,000 in grants to New Mexico Open Elections, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of New Mexico Open Elections?
- UNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE INC is the largest funder on record, with $170,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like New Mexico Open Elections 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 FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 4 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