New Mexico · Nonprofit
SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE
SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE (New Mexico) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $190,580 to it, the largest being Christus Health ($90,100). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.6M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $191k
- Net assets
- $6.0M
What Southwestern College does
Mission
Southwestern Colleges mission is to transform consciousness through education. Since 1976, it has been dedicated to fostering consciousness and transformation. Its programs provide a holistic learning perspective in the fields of behavioral health, leadership, and education.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Southwestern College is a private, not-for-profit institution of higher education that offers master of arts degrees in counseling, art therapy/counseling, art therapy for clinical professionals, and consciousness in action. Additionally, it offers a phd in visionary practice and regenerative leadership. All degree programs are fully accredited by the higher learning commission. The college also provides seven certificate programs: addiction, abuse, & recovery; applied interpersonal neurobiology; childrens mental health; ecotherapy; human sexuality; psychedelic studies; and trauma, grief & renewal.
$3,845,985 spentof which $2,800 as grants$5,292,886 earned by the program74% of program spendingThe college offers counseling services through tierra nueva counseling center (tncc), its community mental health clinic. The counseling center serves as a field training site for student therapists and employs experienced, independently licensed therapists and accepts various insurances. Counseling and art therapy services are tailored to meet the diverse needs and perspectives of individuals. Tncc uses a person-centered approach and is committed to ethical practices, grounded in the colleges values of empathy, love, and kindness.
$1,068,110 spent$553,258 earned by the program21% of program spendingThe new earth institute serves as the colleges community services program, offering non-degree courses for personal and professional development. It hosts an annual event, the transformational and healing conference, aimed at continuing professional development for graduates and community members.
$294,890 spent$378,636 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,208,985.
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 2023 to 2024, from $6.1M to $6.8M (+12%).
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: 2020 12% · 2021 22% · 2022 2% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% 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.
Board chair
Paul Macks
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $2k → $12k.
2 of 6 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.
From the IRS filings of SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE’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 COLLEGE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
88% 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 COLLEGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 70% · 2019 84% · 2020 67% · 2021 53% · 2022 58% · 2023 62% — 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.
Where its funders are
SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside New Mexico, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $53k 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 COLLEGE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $711k on record.
- Department of Education$711k
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 COLLEGE
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Tierra Nueva Counseling Center LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE: 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 SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE?
- SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE (New Mexico) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $190,580 to it, the largest being Christus Health ($90,100). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $190,580 in grants to SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE?
- Christus Health is the largest funder on record, with $90,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE 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 6 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