New Mexico · Nonprofit
SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL LTD
SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL LTD (New Mexico) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,079,108 to it, the largest being THE LOUISA STUDE SAROFIM FOUNDATION ($500,000). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 55
- Grants received
- $3.1M
- Net assets
- $620k
What Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival Ltd does
Mission
The advancement of the art of music.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Summer music festival: the santa fe chamber music festival brings together the world's finest musicians to perform chamber music in all its forms; builds a broad and knowledgeable audience of all ages; and enhances the cultural environment of santa fe and new mexico. The summer festival is held for six weeks each summer. The 2025 season provided 39 concert productions in santa fe. World-class professional musicians from around the globe played for audiences visitng santa fe from around the country.
$2,064,940 spent$764,219 earned by the program93% of program spendingEducation & outreach: the festival provides enrichment programs for children, youth and adults in santa fe and northern new mexico. Through the "music in our schools," "strings in our schools," "guitars in our schools and "dream big" programs, the education component of the festival's programming introduces young audiences to world class chamber music and enables students to study violin and guitar with professional instructors.
$152,291 spent7% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,217,231.
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 2024 to 2025, from $1.0M to $1.3M (+29%).
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 4% · 2018 5% · 2019 3% · 2020 11% · 2021 19% · 2022 2% · 2023 1% · 2024 2% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL LTD’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
James Griffith
Executive director (thru 10/31/25)
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $89k → $369k.
6 of 55 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $4.4M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival Endowment Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL LTD raised.
From the IRS filings of SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL LTD’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 55 funders by total. 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
SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL LTD has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
26% 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 SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL LTD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 14% · 2018 82% · 2019 23% · 2020 17% · 2021 28% · 2022 21% · 2023 23% — 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
50% of SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL LTD's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL LTD draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside New Mexico, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $796k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL LTD's funding base is broadening — from 15 funders to 22 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL LTD receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $290k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$290k
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 SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL LTD
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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival Endowment Foundation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL LTD?
- SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL LTD (New Mexico) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,079,108 to it, the largest being THE LOUISA STUDE SAROFIM FOUNDATION ($500,000). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL LTD have?
- IRS filings report 55 organizations giving $3,079,108 in grants to SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL LTD, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL LTD?
- THE LOUISA STUDE SAROFIM FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL LTD 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 55 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