New Mexico · Nonprofit
SOUTHWESTERN ASSOCIATION FOR INDIAN INDIAN ARTS INC
SOUTHWESTERN ASSOCIATION FOR INDIAN INDIAN ARTS INC (New Mexico) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $386,856 to it, the largest being FIDELITY FOUNDATION ($100,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $387k
- Net assets
- $204k
What Southwestern Association for Indian Indian Arts Inc does
Mission
Bringing native arts to the world by inspiring artistic excellence, fostering education, and creating meaningful partnerships.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The santa fe indian market is the largest exhibition of indian art in the world. The annual market promotes indian art and culture through exhibition and sales of art. Over 175,000 people attend the event annually. Indian market hosts over 1,050 native artists from 49 states and canada, including adults and youth, in the two-day weekend event.
$955,610 spent$792,421 earned by the program81% of program spendingSwaia fellowship and awards programs help native artists to refine and promote excellence in their art while also promoting native cultural beliefs that influence their work. The awards program grants ribbons and cash prizes in over 100 categories of art, with the "best of show" prize being highly coveted and instrumental in forwarding careers of receipients. In 2024, more than 1100 artist entries were received for the competition with nearly 73,000 in award monies. The fellowship award program gives small grants to seven adults and two youth native artists who have been selected through an application and jury process. The fellowship award recipients also receive educational opportunities to study with established swaia artists, promotion in swaia ads, magazine articles and press stories, and special honoring ceremonies.
$177,313 spent15% of program spendingWinter indian market brings 150 of the best of the indian market artists to santa fe for a holiday weekend event just before the christmas holiday. Special public educational programs and entertainment are geared toward expanding knowledge and exposure to native arts and culture. In 2023, over 2,400 people attended the two-day event.
$49,839 spent$87,024 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,182,762.
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 $558k to $785k (+41%).
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 9% · 2022 16% · 2023 5% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
56% of SOUTHWESTERN ASSOCIATION FOR INDIAN INDIAN ARTS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Dawn Houle
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $400 → $37k.
2 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 SOUTHWESTERN ASSOCIATION FOR INDIAN INDIAN ARTS INC’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
SOUTHWESTERN ASSOCIATION FOR INDIAN INDIAN ARTS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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
58% 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 SOUTHWESTERN ASSOCIATION FOR INDIAN INDIAN ARTS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 40% · 2020 48% · 2021 100% · 2022 41% · 2023 66% — 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
0% of SOUTHWESTERN ASSOCIATION FOR INDIAN INDIAN ARTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
SOUTHWESTERN ASSOCIATION FOR INDIAN INDIAN ARTS INC draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside New Mexico, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $101k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
SOUTHWESTERN ASSOCIATION FOR INDIAN INDIAN ARTS INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding SOUTHWESTERN ASSOCIATION FOR INDIAN INDIAN ARTS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $60k on record.
- Smithsonian Institution$60k
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 SOUTHWESTERN ASSOCIATION FOR INDIAN INDIAN ARTS INC
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN ASSOCIATION FOR INDIAN INDIAN ARTS INC?
- SOUTHWESTERN ASSOCIATION FOR INDIAN INDIAN ARTS INC (New Mexico) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $386,856 to it, the largest being FIDELITY FOUNDATION ($100,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTHWESTERN ASSOCIATION FOR INDIAN INDIAN ARTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $386,856 in grants to SOUTHWESTERN ASSOCIATION FOR INDIAN INDIAN ARTS INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTHWESTERN ASSOCIATION FOR INDIAN INDIAN ARTS INC?
- FIDELITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTHWESTERN ASSOCIATION FOR INDIAN INDIAN ARTS INC 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 17 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