New Mexico · Nonprofit
SANTA FE WATERSHED ASSOCIATION
SANTA FE WATERSHED ASSOCIATION (New Mexico) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $450,274 to it, the largest being SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($186,185). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
SANTA FE WATERSHED ASSOCIATION's revenue grew 50% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,260 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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.
- Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Bolene Charitable Trustlocalportfolio match
- Garfield Street Foundationlocalportfolio 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 27% · 2018 26% · 2019 46% · 2020 45% · 2021 58% · 2022 79% · 2023 51% · 2024 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of SANTA FE WATERSHED ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% 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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $75k → $106k.
5 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 WATERSHED ASSOCIATION’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
SANTA FE WATERSHED ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 57%; half comes from just 3 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
72% 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 WATERSHED ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 40% · 2019 51% · 2020 47% · 2021 54% · 2022 15% · 2023 43% — 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
67% of SANTA FE WATERSHED ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
56% of SANTA FE WATERSHED ASSOCIATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $196k that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from New Mexico funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $254k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 23 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchNM · backs 53 organizations that share your funders · funds 39 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Bolene Charitable Trustlocalportfolio matchKS · funds 22 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Garfield Street Foundationlocalportfolio matchNM · funds 17 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Abeles Foundationlocalportfolio matchCA · funds 37 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Marshall L and Perrine D McCune Charitable Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio matchNM · backs 90 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Simon Charitable Foundationlocalportfolio matchNM · funds 9 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Anchorum St Vincentshared funderslocalNM · backs 55 organizations that share your funders · funds 53 organizations near you
- Archerpatterson Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Water Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New Mexico Fund for Women and Girlsshared fundersNM · backs 34 organizations that share your funders
- St Vincent Hospitalshared funderslocalNM · backs 45 organizations that share your funders · funds 42 organizations near you
- C & I Roybal Charitable FoundationlocalNM · funds 27 organizations near you
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.
Government funding SANTA FE WATERSHED ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $300k on record.
- Department of the Interior$300k
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 WATERSHED ASSOCIATION
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 WATERSHED ASSOCIATION: 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 SANTA FE WATERSHED ASSOCIATION?
- SANTA FE WATERSHED ASSOCIATION (New Mexico) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $450,274 to it, the largest being SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($186,185). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SANTA FE WATERSHED ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $450,274 in grants to SANTA FE WATERSHED ASSOCIATION, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SANTA FE WATERSHED ASSOCIATION?
- SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $186,185 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SANTA FE WATERSHED ASSOCIATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 23funders 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