New Mexico · Nonprofit
SOME SERIOUS BUSINESS
SOME SERIOUS BUSINESS (New Mexico) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $520,000 to it, the largest being THE GERALD J AND DOROTHY R FRIEDMAN NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH ($520,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- New Mexico Humanities Councillocalportfolio match
- Gerald J & Dorothy R Friedman Foundation Incshared funders
- Witter Bynner Foundation For Poetry Incportfolio 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $25k → $100k.
From the IRS filings of SOME SERIOUS BUSINESS’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.
Where its funders are
SOME SERIOUS BUSINESS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New Mexico, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
- New Mexico Humanities Councillocalportfolio matchNM · funds 6 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Gerald J & Dorothy R Friedman Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 15 organizations that share your funders
- Witter Bynner Foundation For Poetry Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Albuquerque Convention & Visitors Bureauportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fractured Atlas Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizonaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arizona Humanities Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brooklyn Arts Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nevada Humanities Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Western States Arts Federationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Flushing Council on Culture and the Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Organizations like SOME SERIOUS BUSINESS
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOME SERIOUS BUSINESS: 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 SOME SERIOUS BUSINESS?
- SOME SERIOUS BUSINESS (New Mexico) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $520,000 to it, the largest being THE GERALD J AND DOROTHY R FRIEDMAN NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH ($520,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOME SERIOUS BUSINESS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $520,000 in grants to SOME SERIOUS BUSINESS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOME SERIOUS BUSINESS?
- THE GERALD J AND DOROTHY R FRIEDMAN NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH is the largest funder on record, with $520,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOME SERIOUS BUSINESS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1funders 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