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.
- Revenue FY2025
- $-14097
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $520k
- Net assets
- $39k
What Some Serious Business does
Program
The organization produces cultural events, exhibitions, and performances for the public both new mexico and throughout the u.s.. In addition, its programssb awayprovides artists residencies and retreats in diverse locations including new mexico, italy, and hawaii. Ssb is also engaged in supporting research and design of a scholarly oral/social history of a cultural landmark of the east village in the early 80s, the pyramid cocktail lounge. During the fiscal year the organization hosted residencies for 6 arts, sponsored 2 premieres, contributed to one, and funded one musician/composer to attend the world of music, arts and dance to perform a concert. Total attendance of all events was approximately 820.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-PF.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $131k to $39k (−70%).
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
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.
Organizations like SOME SERIOUS BUSINESS
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.
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.
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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 1 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