New Mexico · Nonprofit
SUN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL FOUNDATION
SUN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL FOUNDATION (New Mexico) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $116,026 to it, the largest being LIVINGRY FOUNDATION ($60,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $116k
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Sun Mountain School Foundation does
Mission
To foster the whole child-head, heart, and hands-through a waldorf-inspired curriculum. It aims to nurture, challenge, and guide children in a, creative, and nature-connected environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program and a significant change in how it conducts a program.
During the 2024-2025 fiscal year, the organization successfully completed the sale of part of its real estate assets (the building and grounds formerly used for high-school operations). The organization then ceased to provide elementary and high-school classes, but maintained its early childhood program on a portion of the retained campus. The organization continues to transition its operational focus and has reorganized as a supporting organization of the sun mountain community school. These strategic changes align the organization's mission with its long-term sustainability goals and continues to fulfill its exempt purpose through its new structure.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
During the 2024-2025 fiscal year, the organization successfully completed the sale of part of its real estate assets (the building and grounds formerly used for high-school operations). The organization then ceased to provide elementary and high-school classes, but maintained its early childhood program on a portion of the retained campus. The organization continues to transition its operational focus and has reorganized as a supporting organization of the sun mountain community school. These strategic changes align the organization's mission with its long-term sustainability goals and continues to fulfill its exempt purpose through its new structure.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Early childhood: during the 2024-2025 fiscal year, the organization successfully completed the sale of part of its real estate assets (the building and grounds formerly used for high-school operations). The organization then ceased to provide elementary and high-school classes, but maintained its early childhood program on a portion of the retained campus. The organization continues to transition its operational focus and has reorganized as a supporting organization of the sun mountain community school. These strategic changes align the organization's mission with its long-term sustainability goals and continues to fulfill its exempt purpose through its new structure.
$143,576 spent$1,298 earned by the program76% of program spendingSmcs program support: the program serves students through grades k-8, prioritizing individual growth and lifelong learning. Admission may be competitive due to high demand.
$45,774 spent$56,706 earned by the program24% of program spendingSummer camp:
$0 spent$17,410 earned by the program0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $189,350.
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 2020 to 2021, from $3.2M to $3.8M (+19%).
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 23% · 2024 77% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
7% of SUN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL FOUNDATION’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. 5 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.
Board chair
Brianna Bassler
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $8k → $488.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 SUN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL FOUNDATION’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
SUN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
39% 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 SUN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 88% · 2019 57% · 2020 57% · 2021 67% · 2022 77% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
67% of SUN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
90% of SUN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL FOUNDATION'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. $45k 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
SUN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SUN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL FOUNDATION
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
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SUN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL FOUNDATION: 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 SUN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL FOUNDATION?
- SUN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL FOUNDATION (New Mexico) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $116,026 to it, the largest being LIVINGRY FOUNDATION ($60,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SUN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $116,026 in grants to SUN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL FOUNDATION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SUN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL FOUNDATION?
- LIVINGRY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $60,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SUN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL FOUNDATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 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