New Mexico · Nonprofit
SANTA FE WATERSHED ASSOCIATION
SANTA FE WATERSHED ASSOCIATION (New Mexico) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $568,274 to it, the largest being SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($186,185). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $381k
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $568k
- Net assets
- $135k
What Santa Fe Watershed Association does
Mission
To build a thriving, resilient santa fe river watershed through collaboration, stewardship, and education that inspires us all to care for our land, water, and each other.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
City of santa fe water conservation office (public utilities): sfwa works with the city of santa fe to provide water conservation and watershed stewardship education for residents of santa fe through various programs. "my water, my watershed" introduces students to their local water supply, water quality, and ecosystem health, and serves nearly all 5th grade students in the greater santa fe area. "mi arroyo, mi tierra," is the successive curriculum for middle school students that connects the upper and urban watershed and introduces concepts of stormwater, erosion, pollution, and stewardship. "nm climate masters" is a ten (10) week adult course designed for members of the public to learn holistically about climate change, its local impacts, and how to get involved in through a variety of sectors and scales. Sfwa also leads educational hikes into the santa fe municipal watershed for adults, and is working with the water conservation office to design a curriculum for rain gardens (bioretention basins), community science monitoring protocols, and other projects.
$110,653 spent38% of program spendingCity of santa fe river and watershed section, (public works): sfwa works with the city of santa fe to organize volunteer teams to clean urban santa fe river and tributary arroyos for ecological health, safety, and water quality purposes through the "adopt your watershed" program. The program facilitates thousands of volunteer hours to pick up over 30 tons of trash annually. In addition to cleanups, sfwa hosts stewardship workshops and restoration activities such as invasive vegetation management, erosion control, native riparian plantings, and rain garden maintenance. We also partner with the city to host larger community days to clean up, gather, learn, and celebrate our local watershed. Additional support for the program comes from donations and smaller grants.
$88,154 spent30% of program spendingLineberry foundation, bell family foundation, others: sfwa receives funding from private foundations and other donors to supplement the programs listed above as well as other programming such as: building rain gardens and advocating for green stormwater infrastructure through education and planning efforts; serving as the new mexico representative for projectwet; participating in the santa fe outdoor education collaborative; serving as the 2024 chair of the greater santa fe fireshed coalition; serving as the co-chair of the santa fe river traditional communities collaborative; serving on the city of santa fe land development code citizens' advisory working group; and other collaborative community activities. Sfwa also began the first-ever restoration plan for the entire santa fe river watershed thanks to a us bureau of reclamation grant.
$91,639 spent32% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $290,446.
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 2022 to 2023, from $71k to $123k (+73%).
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% · 2025 50%. 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 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $75k → $106k.
5 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
57% 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 38% · 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
69% of SANTA FE WATERSHED ASSOCIATION'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
74% of SANTA FE WATERSHED ASSOCIATION's grant income 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 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 WATERSHED ASSOCIATION's funding base is broadening — from 8 funders to 9 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,606 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SANTA FE WATERSHED ASSOCIATION?
- SANTA FE WATERSHED ASSOCIATION (New Mexico) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $568,274 to it, the largest being SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($186,185). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SANTA FE WATERSHED ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $568,274 in grants to SANTA FE WATERSHED ASSOCIATION, 17 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.
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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 24 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