New Mexico · Nonprofit
TALKING TALONS YOUTH LEADERSHIP
TALKING TALONS YOUTH LEADERSHIP (New Mexico) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $232,606 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($116,556). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $700k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $233k
- Net assets
- $596k
What Talking Talons Youth Leadership does
Mission
To elevate youth and the community to become effective advocates and ethical stewards of themselves, wildlife, habitat, and the environment with a vision of healing the planet by transforming generations of leaders through nature. Ttyl's motto: "inspiring tommorow's environmental leaders, today."
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The organization offers programs that educate today's youth and adults in developing self esteem and lifetime skills, including an awareness of environmental issues facing them today. Approximately 138 youth and adults participated in the after school-based youth leadership and development programs and in the field-based youth development and service learning program offered by the organization this fiscal year.
$233,459 spent42% of program spendingThe organization operates a thrift store selling donated clothing and household items. All monies generated from the thrift store are used to help the organization further their mission. (donated in-kind cost of goods sold of 499,735 was netted against revenue of 478,648 - see form 990, part viii)
$319,224 spent58% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $552,683.
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 2022 to 2023, from $469k to $652k (+39%).
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: 2017 35% · 2018 30% · 2019 25% · 2020 23% · 2021 43% · 2022 29% · 2023 25% · 2024 14% · 2025 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of TALKING TALONS YOUTH LEADERSHIP’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. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $54k → $10k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 TALKING TALONS YOUTH LEADERSHIP’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
TALKING TALONS YOUTH LEADERSHIP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 TALKING TALONS YOUTH LEADERSHIP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 54% · 2021 84% · 2022 59% · 2023 99% — 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.
How long its funders stay
75% of TALKING TALONS YOUTH LEADERSHIP's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 50% 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
TALKING TALONS YOUTH LEADERSHIP draws 74% 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. $68k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
TALKING TALONS YOUTH LEADERSHIP's revenue grew 31% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding TALKING TALONS YOUTH LEADERSHIP receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $374k on record.
- Environmental Protection Agency$191k
- Department of Agriculture$184k
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 TALKING TALONS YOUTH LEADERSHIP
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 TALKING TALONS YOUTH LEADERSHIP: 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 TALKING TALONS YOUTH LEADERSHIP?
- TALKING TALONS YOUTH LEADERSHIP (New Mexico) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $232,606 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($116,556). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TALKING TALONS YOUTH LEADERSHIP have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $232,606 in grants to TALKING TALONS YOUTH LEADERSHIP, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TALKING TALONS YOUTH LEADERSHIP?
- NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $116,556 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TALKING TALONS YOUTH LEADERSHIP 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.
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