New Mexico · Nonprofit
RIO GRANDE AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST
RIO GRANDE AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST (New Mexico) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $383,998 to it, the largest being MARSHALL L AND PERRINE D MCCUNE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($100,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $408k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $384k
- Net assets
- $898k
What Rio Grande Agricultural Land Trust does
Mission
To protect land and water for people and wildlife, forever. We preserve open space, agricultural lands and wildlife habitat through the use of voluntary conservation easements.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Nrcs racial equity justice grant agreement for rgalt to conduct nrcs program outreach and technical assistance to underserved and socially disadvantaged producers in the middle rio grande.
$103,681 spent$98,681 earned by the program45% of program spendingRGALT is a Land Trust Alliance accredited land conservation organization. We serve urban and rural communities by protecting land and water forever through voluntary conservation easements. A conservation easement isa voluntary legal agreement on the part of a landownerwhich contains permanent restrictions on the use or development of the land to protect certain conservation values on their property.We implement our work by fostering public and private partnerships that result in collaborations between private landowners (including farmers and ranchers), government agencies, state and federal wildlife refuges, Native American tribes, non-profit organizations, businesses, and private individuals.
$75,819 spent$122,163 earned by the program33% of program spendingRGALT entered into a Memorandum of Agreement with the MRGCD to conduct various combinations of tasks that support and advance the mission of the MRGCD and the conservation goals of Middle Rio Grande conservation partners. These tasks include landowner outreach, conservation easement recruitment and implementation, seeking third party funding for conservation, and expanding partnerships.
$52,533 spent$50,000 earned by the program23% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $232,033.
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 2019 to 2020, from $394k to $702k (+78%).
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 37% · 2018 33% · 2019 11% · 2021 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of RIO GRANDE AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Cecilia Rosacker
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $31k → $43k.
3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 RIO GRANDE AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST’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
RIO GRANDE AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 26% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
27% 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 RIO GRANDE AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 93% · 2019 81% · 2020 100% · 2021 56% · 2022 36% · 2023 58% — 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
50% of RIO GRANDE AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
79% of RIO GRANDE AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST'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. $44k 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
RIO GRANDE AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding RIO GRANDE AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $713k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$713k
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 RIO GRANDE AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 RIO GRANDE AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST: 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 RIO GRANDE AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST?
- RIO GRANDE AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST (New Mexico) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $383,998 to it, the largest being MARSHALL L AND PERRINE D MCCUNE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($100,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RIO GRANDE AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $383,998 in grants to RIO GRANDE AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RIO GRANDE AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST?
- MARSHALL L AND PERRINE D MCCUNE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RIO GRANDE AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 13 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