New Mexico · Nonprofit
TALKING TALONS YOUTH LEADERSHIP
TALKING TALONS YOUTH LEADERSHIP (New Mexico) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $226,974 to it, the largest being National Fish and Wildlife Foundation ($116,556). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
TALKING TALONS YOUTH LEADERSHIP's revenue grew 31% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Albuquerque Convention & Visitors Bureaulocal
- National Recreation Foundation Incorporatedportfolio match
- The Outdoor Foundationportfolio match
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.
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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $54k → $10k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 51% of grant income and the top three 87%; 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.
Where its funders are
TALKING TALONS YOUTH LEADERSHIP draws 73% 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. $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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 7 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Albuquerque Convention & Visitors BureaulocalNM · funds 43 organizations near you
- National Recreation Foundation Incorporatedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Outdoor Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cross Charitable Foundation Attn John R Clarkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Justice Outsideportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Collective For Youthportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Faraway Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Shepherds - a Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Feather Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Weatherby Foundation International Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Op & We Edwards Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rivian Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
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
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds TALKING TALONS YOUTH LEADERSHIP?
- TALKING TALONS YOUTH LEADERSHIP (New Mexico) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $226,974 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 7 organizations giving $226,974 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 7funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing