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RIO GRANDE COMMUNITY FARMS

RIO GRANDE COMMUNITY FARMS (New Mexico) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $111,058 to it, the largest being ACESO FOUNDATION INC ($55,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$134k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$111k
Net assets
$45k
3/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 29%
01What it does

What Rio Grande Community Farms does

Mission

To provide diverse and underserved communities with equitable access to urban farmland and education in sustainable agriculture - prioritizing food justice, biodiversity, and climate resilience.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Rio grande community farm programs focus on sustainable urban agriculture including growing crops, microfarming, community garden & healthy soils, educational workshops & tours and wildlife preservation and enhancement including planting and implementation. Rio grand community farm also provides educational events in the albuquerque metropolitan area.

    $121,627 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $121,627.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($66k) Expenses 100 ($88k) Net assets 100 ($14k)2018 Revenue 81 ($53k) Expenses 26 ($23k) Net assets 353 ($48k)2019 Revenue 105 ($69k) Expenses 65 ($58k) Net assets 449 ($61k)2020 Revenue 57 ($38k) Expenses 79 ($70k) Net assets 273 ($37k)2021 Revenue 179 ($118k) Expenses 114 ($101k) Net assets 401 ($54k)2022 Revenue 216 ($142k) Expenses 179 ($158k) Net assets 289 ($39k)2023 Revenue 297 ($196k) Expenses 191 ($169k) Net assets 499 ($68k)2024 Revenue 203 ($134k) Expenses 181 ($159k) Net assets 333 ($45k)
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Revenue (203)Expenses (181)Net assets (333)Peer revenue range

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 $17k to $48k (+185%).

$17k
$48k
$61k
$39k
$60k
$51k
$68k
$45k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

22% of RIO GRANDE COMMUNITY FARMS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,373 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$22k
’17
$30k
’18
$12k
’19
−$32k
’20
$17k
’21
−$15k
’22
$27k
’23
−$25k
’24
0.6
months of
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.

20232024
Listed76
Joined·+1
No longer listed·2
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $18k → $56k.

2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 COMMUNITY FARMS’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 COMMUNITY FARMS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

38% 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 COMMUNITY FARMS.

50%
largest funder
87%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 52% · 2023 89% — growing more concentrated.

“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

25% of RIO GRANDE COMMUNITY FARMS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

RIO GRANDE COMMUNITY FARMS draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside New Mexico, across 3 states in all.

IN
CA
NM

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’22
’23
New Mexico out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $36k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

RIO GRANDE COMMUNITY FARMS has grown faster than half of the 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−19% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.6mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like RIO GRANDE COMMUNITY FARMS

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In New Mexico

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 17%Fundraising 6%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

52%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NM

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RIO GRANDE COMMUNITY FARMS: 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 COMMUNITY FARMS?
RIO GRANDE COMMUNITY FARMS (New Mexico) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $111,058 to it, the largest being ACESO FOUNDATION INC ($55,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does RIO GRANDE COMMUNITY FARMS have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $111,058 in grants to RIO GRANDE COMMUNITY FARMS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RIO GRANDE COMMUNITY FARMS?
ACESO FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $55,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RIO GRANDE COMMUNITY FARMS 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 8 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