New Mexico · Nonprofit
RIO GRANDE FOOD PROJECT
RIO GRANDE FOOD PROJECT (New Mexico) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,697,696 to it, the largest being ABRAM AND RAY KAPLAN FOUNDATION ($555,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
RIO GRANDE FOOD PROJECT runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 505 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 505 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Nusenda Foundationshared funderslocal
- Diabetes Prevention and Aid Fundportfolio match
- Means Database Incportfolio match
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.
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 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 2% · 2020 3% · 2021 2% · 2022 27% · 2023 28% · 2024 30% · 2025 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of RIO GRANDE FOOD PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $67k → $270k.
9 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 FOOD PROJECT’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 FOOD PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
56% 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 FOOD PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 44% · 2019 47% · 2020 23% · 2021 34% · 2022 30% · 2023 37% — 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
67% of RIO GRANDE FOOD PROJECT'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
RIO GRANDE FOOD PROJECT draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside New Mexico, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $806k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 24 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Nusenda Foundationshared funderslocalNM · backs 79 organizations that share your funders · funds 82 organizations near you
- Diabetes Prevention and Aid Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Means Database Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Farmlink Projectportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Caliber Collision Centers Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hunger Free Coloradoportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Doris Goodwin Walbridge Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- St Mary's Food Bank Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Trailhead Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Anchorum St Vincentshared fundersNM · backs 32 organizations that share your funders
- Con Alma Health Foundation Incshared fundersNM · backs 68 organizations that share your funders
- Brindle Foundationshared fundersNM · backs 35 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like RIO GRANDE FOOD PROJECT
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
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 FOOD PROJECT: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds RIO GRANDE FOOD PROJECT?
- RIO GRANDE FOOD PROJECT (New Mexico) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,697,696 to it, the largest being ABRAM AND RAY KAPLAN FOUNDATION ($555,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RIO GRANDE FOOD PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $1,697,696 in grants to RIO GRANDE FOOD PROJECT, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RIO GRANDE FOOD PROJECT?
- ABRAM AND RAY KAPLAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $555,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RIO GRANDE FOOD PROJECT 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 24funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing