New Mexico · Nonprofit
PAJARITO ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER
PAJARITO ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER (New Mexico) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $957,883 to it, the largest being THE DELLE FOUNDATION ($475,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $958k
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Pajarito Environmental Education Center does
Mission
Enriching peoples lives by strengthening their connections to our canyons mesa mountain and skies.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Nature Center: PEEC operates the Los Alamos Nature Center for the County of Los Alamos NM. The nature centers hands-on interactive exhibits related to the land animals and flora of the Pajarito Plateau provide a learning experience for visitors of all ages. In addition to an exhibit hall the nature center offers a state-of-the-art planetarium and a wildlife observation room. The outdoor exhibits feature native plant gardens the largest collection of penstemons in the country a tree house and nature play area. The nature center gift shop offers locally-made products and environmentally-friendly items encouraging people to experience the outdoors. During FY25 we welcomed 12,667 visitors to the nature center and 1604 attendees to our planetarium shows.
$416,090 spent$453,825 earned by the program46% of program spendingPublic Programs: We offer numerous programs for the public at low or no cost. These include lectures classes hikes outings planetarium shows after-school programs and 7 summer camps. Many of these events like Nature Playtimes for children Forest Explorers for children Gentle Walks and Happy Ramblers for adults and three planetarium shows are scheduled each week. The weekly Summer Family Evening program brings the community together to learn more about and interact with the local environment and wildlife. The Bee City Los Alamos continued for its second year. During FY25 12,550 individuals attended one of our public programs.
$314,060 spent$155,773 earned by the program35% of program spendingSchool Programs: We offer a variety of hands-on science lessons to students throughout northern New Mexico. These include in-school lessons and field trips astronomy classes in our planetarium outings to local public lands and field trips to the nature center. We offer our programs to public private and home-schooled children. During FY25 we served 5,363 students.
$177,911 spent$44,509 earned by the program20% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $908,061.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $1.9M to $2.1M (+13%).
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: 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 7% · 2024 0% · 2025 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of PAJARITO ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $28k → $195k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 PAJARITO ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER’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
PAJARITO ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
35% 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 PAJARITO ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 69% · 2019 41% · 2020 64% · 2021 40% · 2022 67% · 2023 41% — 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
100% of PAJARITO ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 82% 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
90% of PAJARITO ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER's grant income comes from New Mexico funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $138k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
PAJARITO ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding PAJARITO ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $91k on record.
- Department of the Interior$52k
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$39k
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 PAJARITO ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PAJARITO ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER?
- PAJARITO ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER (New Mexico) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $957,883 to it, the largest being THE DELLE FOUNDATION ($475,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PAJARITO ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $957,883 in grants to PAJARITO ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PAJARITO ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER?
- THE DELLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $475,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PAJARITO ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 11 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