New Mexico · Nonprofit
STEMARTS LAB
STEMARTS LAB (New Mexico) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $182,900 to it, the largest being LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY FOUNDATION ($97,400). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $243k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $183k
- Net assets
- $168k
What Stemarts Lab does
Mission
The Stemarts Lab is a research and innovation project that applies the latest science research and technological innovations to arts and education through interdisciplinary collaborations. We deliver real world sci-art installations and steam programming for schools, art and science organizations, festivals or events.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Stemarts Lab collaborates with artists, festivals, museums and and interdisciplinary organizations to create sci-art installations and design challenges with steam-integrated curricula. Stemarts programs develop artistic, scientific and humanistic literacy by building in-depth curriculum around innovative and immersive sci-art experiences. We provide students and teachers in under served and rural communities with real world 21st century skill development and exciting global/local learning opportunities through the following programs. Stemarts Lab has designed and produced, space messengers, a multi-artist traveling "mixed reality" installation and international youth exchange. The space-themed curriculum is created in partnership with artists and experts from renowned laboratories such as cern, nasa, and lanl. Access the speaker videos and activity guides and become part of this international sci-art project. Students (ages 14-19) can apply to be steam ambassadors and upon successful completion will receive the following benefits; steam ambassador certificate; listing on the Stemarts Lab website as steam ambassadors with profile photo; referral letter for a job or scholarship;…
$152,315 spent$15,150 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $152,315.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $95k to $169k (+77%).
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.
93% of STEMARTS LAB’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 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
Juniper Leherissey
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $40k → $67k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 STEMARTS LAB’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
STEMARTS LAB leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
75% 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 STEMARTS LAB.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 63% · 2022 66% · 2023 38% — 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
82% of STEMARTS LAB's grant income comes from New Mexico funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $41k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
STEMARTS LAB runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding STEMARTS LAB receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $83k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$65k
- Department of State$18k
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 STEMARTS LAB
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 STEMARTS LAB: 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 STEMARTS LAB?
- STEMARTS LAB (New Mexico) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $182,900 to it, the largest being LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY FOUNDATION ($97,400). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STEMARTS LAB have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $182,900 in grants to STEMARTS LAB, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STEMARTS LAB?
- LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $97,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STEMARTS LAB 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 4 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