New Mexico · Nonprofit
OGALLALA LAND AND WATER CONSERVANCY
OGALLALA LAND AND WATER CONSERVANCY (New Mexico) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $130,000 to it, the largest being THORNBURG FOUNDATION ($130,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $130k
- Net assets
- $145k
What Ogallala Land and Water Conservancy does
Mission
To conserve the agricultural land and groundwater of the ogallala aquifer paleochannels in curry county by forever protecting, preserving, and stewarding these natural resources for vistas, recreation, wildlife, and non-irrigated agricultural use to enhance quality of life for cannon air force base, curry county, and the city of clovis.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The ogallala land & water conservancy (olwc) continued implementing its voluntary, incentive-based groundwater conservation program in eastern new mexico to conserve the ogallala aquifer while supporting agricultural producers, local communities, and mission resilience for cannon air force base. During fy25, program expenditures supported the execution of the 4th year of water right lease agreement (wrla) payments to participating agricultural producers who transitioned irrigated farmland to dryland cropping, pastureland, grazing, and regenerative agricultural practices. By june 30, 2025, olwc had transitioned approximately 11,120 irrigated acres and retired 56 irrigation wells within the project area. These efforts conserved an estimated 12,859 acre-feet of groundwater annually (approximately 4.19 billion gallons per year), with cumulative avoided withdrawals of approximately 36,981 acre-feet over four years. Olwc continued advancing participating landowners from temporary wrlas into perpetual groundwater conservation easements designed to conserve up to 80% of groundwater while supporting long-term agricultural land stewardship, livestock operations, wildlife habitat, and…
$1,211,700 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,211,700.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2024 to 2025, from $61k to $8.0M (+12947%).
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: 2023 100% · 2024 100% · 2025 90%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of OGALLALA LAND AND WATER CONSERVANCY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of OGALLALA LAND AND WATER CONSERVANCY’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.
Where its funders are
100% of OGALLALA LAND AND WATER CONSERVANCY's grant income comes from New Mexico funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
OGALLALA LAND AND WATER CONSERVANCY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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In New Mexico
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% 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 OGALLALA LAND AND WATER CONSERVANCY: 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 OGALLALA LAND AND WATER CONSERVANCY?
- OGALLALA LAND AND WATER CONSERVANCY (New Mexico) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $130,000 to it, the largest being THORNBURG FOUNDATION ($130,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OGALLALA LAND AND WATER CONSERVANCY have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $130,000 in grants to OGALLALA LAND AND WATER CONSERVANCY.
- Who is the largest funder of OGALLALA LAND AND WATER CONSERVANCY?
- THORNBURG FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $130,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OGALLALA LAND AND WATER CONSERVANCY 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 1 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