New Mexico · Nonprofit
SURFACE DESIGN ASSOCIATION
SURFACE DESIGN ASSOCIATION (New Mexico) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $66,241 to it, the largest being LGT Foundation ($34,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $313k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $66k
- Net assets
- $35k
What Surface Design Association does
Mission
To promote awareness and appreciation of textile-inspired art and design through member-supported benefits including publications, exhibitions and conferences.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Promote the education and awareness of surface design by offering newsletters, publications, and conferences to the membership and general public, as well as offer members the ability to promote their individual surface design creations by offering a forum for them to be seen.
$273,467 spentof which $500 as grants$79,116 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $273,467.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $90k to $53k (−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 8% · 2023 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Karena Bennett
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1k → $5k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 SURFACE DESIGN ASSOCIATION’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
SURFACE DESIGN ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 80% · 2020 89% · 2021 66% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
SURFACE DESIGN ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New Mexico, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $241 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.
Government funding SURFACE DESIGN ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$20k
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 SURFACE DESIGN ASSOCIATION
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SURFACE DESIGN ASSOCIATION: 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 SURFACE DESIGN ASSOCIATION?
- SURFACE DESIGN ASSOCIATION (New Mexico) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $66,241 to it, the largest being LGT Foundation ($34,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SURFACE DESIGN ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $66,241 in grants to SURFACE DESIGN ASSOCIATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SURFACE DESIGN ASSOCIATION?
- LGT Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $34,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SURFACE DESIGN ASSOCIATION 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 3 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