New Mexico · Nonprofit
NEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS - ARTS INSTITUTE
NEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS - ARTS INSTITUTE (New Mexico) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,603,309 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,663,600). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 65
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $32M
What New Mexico School for the Arts - Arts Institute does
Mission
New mexico school for the arts-art institute, assists passionate young artists in developing their full potential through a rigorous master of arts and academic education
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Arts educational institution program was established to provide intensive pre-professional art education of students demonstrating promise, aptitude and passion for the arts. Providing professional and pre-professional instructions through programs offered throughout new mexico. Total students served is approximately 340.
$1,562,772 spentof which $6,168 as grants$90,082 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,562,772.
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 2017 to 2018, from $18M to $25M (+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: 2022 12% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of NEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS - ARTS INSTITUTE’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
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
Cindy Montoya
Executive director
Board chair
Carl Thoma
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 25 funders, grant income fell $1.7M → $1.1M.
11 of 65 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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: $120k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest New Mexico School for the Arts - Arts Institute). These are real filings, and they are not money NEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS - ARTS INSTITUTE raised.
From the IRS filings of NEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS - ARTS INSTITUTE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 65 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 SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS - ARTS INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
61% 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 SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS - ARTS INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 58% · 2019 42% · 2020 35% · 2021 52% · 2022 25% · 2023 26% — 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
52% of NEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS - ARTS INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
60% of NEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS - ARTS INSTITUTE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $5.8M that is directly attributable, 50% of it comes from funders outside New Mexico, across 13 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS - ARTS INSTITUTE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like NEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS - ARTS INSTITUTE
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
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS - ARTS INSTITUTE: 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 SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS - ARTS INSTITUTE?
- NEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS - ARTS INSTITUTE (New Mexico) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,603,309 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,663,600). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS - ARTS INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 65 organizations giving $14,603,309 in grants to NEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS - ARTS INSTITUTE, 43 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS - ARTS INSTITUTE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $5,663,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS - ARTS INSTITUTE 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 65 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