New Mexico · Nonprofit
NEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE
NEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE (New Mexico) receives grants from 76 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,298,863 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,669,103). 53 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.1M
- Funders on record
- 76
- Grants received
- $10M
- Net assets
- $4.5M
What New Mexico Wilderness Alliance does
Mission
The purpose of the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance is to enjoy, protect, and restore wilderness in new mexico, and to conduct research and educate the public about wilderness in new mexico
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Wilderness protection: upgrading the status of public lands. Activities directly related to increasing legislative or administrative protection designations; place-based campaign activities, including grassroots organizing, mobilization, advocacy, and communications with elected officials.
$935,795 spent32% of program spendingWilderness ranger: the new mexico wild wilderness ranger program is a partnership with the us forest service and bureau of land management designed to increase stewardship in wilderness areas across new mexico. Rangers provide important services including wilderness character monitoring, trails assessment, trail clearing, campsite rehabilitation, public outreach and wilderness education. Their work provides valuable information on current wilderness conditions while enhancing public safety and contributing to positive wilderness experiences for wilderness visitors. Since 2017, we have hosted seasonal rangers in the carson, santa fe, cibola, lincoln, and gila national forests.
$453,011 spent15% of program spendingOutreach and education: public outreach, education, and engagement. Activities conducted to foster better understanding and appreciation for the value of federal public lands in general, not associated with a specific place-based campaign.
$796,583 spent$75,908 earned by the program27% of program spendingWilderness defense: efforts to improve the management of public lands. Activities include a range of oversight and watchdog activities designed to hold agencies accountable for managing lands consistent with relevant statutes, regulations, rules, and management plans and proposals. Native lands institute: to improve economic security outcomes for indigenous communities in new mexico through community engagement, coalition-building, advocacy, and policy development. Rio grande del norte: formed to ensure continued protection of the national monument. Activities include outreach, conservation, and access projects to enhance the monument and the lives of the people who live, work, and play in the rio grande del norte. Rio chama wilderness run: supporting nm wilds mission and to conduct charitable, scientific, educational, and stewardship activities.
$759,923 spentof which $77,403 as grants$7,539 earned by the program26% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,945,312.
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 2021 to 2022, from $2.6M to $3.6M (+36%).
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: 2017 7% · 2018 13% · 2019 10% · 2020 8% · 2021 12% · 2022 3% · 2023 3% · 2024 17% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of NEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% 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.
Board chair
Wendy Brown
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 41 funders, grant income rose $467k → $1.9M.
13 of 76 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 WILDERNESS ALLIANCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 76 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 WILDERNESS ALLIANCE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
52% 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 WILDERNESS ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 36% · 2019 35% · 2020 21% · 2021 21% · 2022 14% · 2023 13% — 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
63% of NEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE'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 WILDERNESS ALLIANCE draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside New Mexico, across 20 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 WILDERNESS ALLIANCE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,209 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,209 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding NEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.6M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$3.2M
- Department of the Interior$381k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like NEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- New Mexico Wild Action Fund · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE: 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 WILDERNESS ALLIANCE?
- NEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE (New Mexico) receives grants from 76 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,298,863 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,669,103). 53 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 76 organizations giving $10,298,863 in grants to NEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE, 53 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,669,103 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE 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 76 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing