New Mexico · Nonprofit
SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET INSTITUTE
SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET INSTITUTE (New Mexico) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,503,899 to it, the largest being SEATTLE FOUNDATION ($355,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $921k
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Santa Fe Farmers Market Institute does
Mission
To advocate for farmers, ranchers and other land-based producers; provide equitable access to fresh, local food; own and operate a year-round venue for the santa fe farmers' market; and manage programs to help sustain a profitable, locally-based agricultural community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
To promote regional small farm and ranch operations through the following activities: 1) continue to maintain the farmers market pavilion as a long- term venue for the santa fe farmers market, allowing farmers to engage in direct market sales; 2) enable the use of snap/ebt at the farmers market and double snap transactions.; 3) distribute microloans to vendors to provide access to capital to help expand farm capacity. In 2025, farmers received 60,000 in loans through partner banks, guaranteed by organization under microloans program; 4) expand program offerings through development of new local food for all community outreach inititatives. 5) provide a gathering place for community and nonprofit events through the rental of the pavilion on non-market days.
$354,723 spent47% of program spendingMarket venue and facility operations: the institute owns and operates the santa fe farmers' market pavilion in the santa fe railyard that the institute constructed in 2008 on land leased long-term from the city of santa fe. The pavilion was built for the specific purpose of giving northern new mexico's agricultural producers a permanent, weather- protected, year-round venue for direct-to-consumer sales. The institute makes suite a, the market hall, and the mid-space shop area available to the santa fe farmers' market at rates substantially below fair market value, enabling the market to operate year-round and to host up to 130 vendors from 15 northern new mexico counties who sell only agricultural products they have grown or produced themselves. Beyond providing the space, the institute maintains and improves the facility, staffs the information booth on each market day, provides volunteer docents to assist vendors and customers, and collaborates with market staff and board on marketing and long-range planning.
$215,614 spent$173,366 earned by the program29% of program spendingDuring 2025 the institute began its tianguis movile/mobile produce market which brings goods from santa fe farmers'market vendors directly into local neighborhoods, eliminating common barriers to access such as transportation and mobility, time, parking, and affordability.
$186,057 spent$183,295 earned by the program25% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $756,394.
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 $3.6M to $4.0M (+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: 2017 26% · 2018 1% · 2019 4% · 2020 10% · 2021 21% · 2023 2% · 2024 3% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
52% of SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET INSTITUTE’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. 7 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.
Board chair
Robert Jones
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $85k → $238k.
10 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET INSTITUTE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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 FARMERS MARKET INSTITUTE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
58% 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 FARMERS MARKET INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 31% · 2019 22% · 2020 32% · 2021 36% · 2022 27% · 2023 29% — broadly stable.
“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
44% of SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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 FARMERS MARKET INSTITUTE draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside New Mexico, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $666k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 FARMERS MARKET INSTITUTE's funding base is broadening — from 10 funders to 16 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,059 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$10k
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
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 FARMERS MARKET INSTITUTE
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
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
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 SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET INSTITUTE: 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 SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET INSTITUTE?
- SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET INSTITUTE (New Mexico) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,503,899 to it, the largest being SEATTLE FOUNDATION ($355,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $1,503,899 in grants to SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET INSTITUTE, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET INSTITUTE?
- SEATTLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $355,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET INSTITUTE 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 38 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing