New Mexico · Nonprofit
SITE SANTA FE
SITE SANTA FE (New Mexico) receives grants from 90 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,266,859 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,537,240). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.5M
- Funders on record
- 90
- Grants received
- $10M
- Net assets
- $22M
What Site Santa Fe does
Mission
Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, Site Santa Fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Exhibitions: throughout its exhibition program, Site Santa Fe explores a rich span of cultural perspectives and makes contemporary art accessible to diverse audiences. Selected exhibitions presented at Site Santa Fe this year included:"carmen herrera: I'm nobody! Who are you?" - "I'm nobody! Who are you?" is a solo exhibition by cuban-born american abstract minimalist artist carmen herrera (1915-2022). For over eight decades, herrera dedicated herself to exploring abstraction through minimalist principles, striving for what she believed to be the most basic and pure visual solutions; she simplified her compositions to shape, line, and vibrant color."erin shirreff: folded stone" - translation is the key maneuver in the work of erin shirreff (b. 1975), who poses fundamental questions about how art is received and remembered. Though trained as a sculptor, shirreff tends to draw on other disciplines, revealing how sculpture's defining traits - real space, live encounter - can materialize across formats."arturo herrera: you are here" - for more than 30 years, german-based venezuelan-born artist arturo herrera has dedicated himself to investigating and understanding the complex…
$1,765,554 spent$305,480 earned by the program61% of program spendingGeneral programs: Site Santa Fe creates a physical and virtual space that is welcoming and educational to all through visitor services, marketing and communications outreach, and the store. Visitors' experience is enhanced by a curated lobby space that promotes the sales of books and objects that are thematically tied to the exhibitions.
$566,025 spent$38,645 earned by the program19% of program spendingEducation and public programs: Site Santa Fe's creativity and learning department brings arts programming into communities to co-create projects with a diverse range of participants. Site Santa Fe's work in the schools is connected to the themes of the current exhibition or public programs, explores ideas relevant to the contemporary culture, and gives youth an opportunity to respond critically and creatively. Site Santa Fe's public programs are a vital component of the organization's annual arts programming. A variety of performances, artist talks, film screenings, and other multidisciplinary programs are offered throughout the year and provide multiple access points for the public to learn about and discuss the art on display.
$585,581 spent$29,208 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,917,160.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2020 to 2021, from $18M to $21M (+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: 2018 4% · 2019 4% · 2020 5% · 2021 18% · 2022 17% · 2023 5% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
65% of SITE SANTA FE’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. 2 of the last 7 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
Louis Grachos
CEO/executive director
Board chair
Marti Meyerson Vice Chair
(through 6/30/24), chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 30 funders, grant income fell $1.7M → $974k.
20 of 90 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 SITE SANTA FE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 90 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
SITE SANTA FE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% 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
41% 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 SITE SANTA FE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 46% · 2019 31% · 2020 20% · 2021 28% · 2022 20% · 2023 18% — 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
50% of SITE SANTA FE'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
SITE SANTA FE draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside New Mexico, across 20 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
SITE SANTA FE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding SITE SANTA FE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $691k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$425k
- National Endowment for the Arts$200k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$66k
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 SITE SANTA FE
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
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
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 SITE SANTA FE: 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 SITE SANTA FE?
- SITE SANTA FE (New Mexico) receives grants from 90 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,266,859 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,537,240). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SITE SANTA FE have?
- IRS filings report 90 organizations giving $10,266,859 in grants to SITE SANTA FE, 49 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SITE SANTA FE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,537,240 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SITE SANTA FE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 90 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