New Mexico · Nonprofit
SOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT
SOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT (New Mexico) receives grants from 94 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,797,153 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($1,953,084). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 94
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What Southwest Organizing Project does
Mission
The mission of swop is to empower the disenfranchised in the southwest to realize racial and gender equality, and social and economic justice.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In 2025, swop focused on engaging with community through art, food, gender, youth and climate justice programs. Our mass base organizer provided art- based activities and materials to engage youth and support their creativity using activism as a form of expression through art. Our food justice team expanded the garden at project feed the hood and partnered with local schools, groups and herbalists to grow and distribute produce and medicinal herbs. Our gender justice organizer provided a series of bilingual and age-appropriate workshops to local youth about feminisms, racism, reproductive justice, body autonomy and lgbtq topics. Swop worked alongside local community groups like haulno, tularosa downwinders consortium, yucca (youth united 4 climate crisis action) to address issues in pollution, climate and energy related policies. Swop's youth justice program led the new mexico youth justice coalition (nmyjc), to create community alternatives to youth incarceration and combat the school to prison pipeline and youth criminalization.
$1,391,427 spentof which $90,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,391,427.
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 $3.3M to $4.4M (+33%).
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: 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of SOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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 7 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $831k → $1.8M.
23 of 94 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $10k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Southwest Organizing Project). These are real filings, and they are not money SOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT raised.
From the IRS filings of SOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 94 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
SOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% 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
56% 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 SOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 28% · 2019 42% · 2020 24% · 2021 13% · 2022 14% · 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
34% of SOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
SOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside New Mexico, across 17 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
SOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 479 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 479 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
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 SOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT: 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 SOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT?
- SOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT (New Mexico) receives grants from 94 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,797,153 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($1,953,084). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 94 organizations giving $14,797,153 in grants to SOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT, 45 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT?
- WK Kellogg Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,953,084 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT 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 94 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