New Mexico · Nonprofit
TAOS FERAL FELINE FRIENDS
TAOS FERAL FELINE FRIENDS (New Mexico) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $201,323 to it, the largest being THE TAOS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($57,950). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $142k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $201k
- Net assets
- $338k
What Taos Feral Feline Friends does
Mission
Prevent Cruelty to Cats and Dogs in Northern New Mexico Stop Unnecessary Euthanasia of Cats and Dogs in Northern New Mexico Reduce the Population of Homeless Cats and Dogs in Northern New Mexico
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
On 3/1/2025, TFFF transferred physical, intellectual and financial assets relating to its Spay/Neuter Services division's veterinary clinic in El Prado, NM to an unaffiliated 501-c3 charity, Spay Taos, which had been formed to own and operate the clinic. TFFF no longer has direct involvement with the veterinary clinic operations but intends to provide additional funding via Spay/Neuter Services to Spay Taos on a discretionary basis, subject to Spay Taos' continued operation of the clinic.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Provide residency and veterinary care for 23 stray or feral cats at our sanctuary in Ranchos De Taos, NM.
$26,000 spent$39,787 earned by the program8% of program spendingOperated a veterinary clinic focused on offering the community free spay neuter and vaccinations for cats and dogs. In 2025, the clinic completed 440 spay/neuter surgeries under TFFF's management. On 3/1/2025, physical, intellectual and financial assets relating to the clinic were transferred to Spay Taos, an unaffiliated 501c-3 charity formed to own and operate the clinic.
$296,637 spentof which $192,098 as grants$101,896 earned by the program88% of program spendingDistributed $14,882 of cat food at no cost to qualifying low-income feral cat caregivers
$14,956 spent4% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $337,593.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $150k to $392k (+162%).
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.
88% of TAOS FERAL FELINE FRIENDS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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 held at 3 funders, grant income rose $28k → $51k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 TAOS FERAL FELINE FRIENDS’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
TAOS FERAL FELINE FRIENDS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
65% 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 TAOS FERAL FELINE FRIENDS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2020 100% · 2021 47% · 2022 99% · 2023 60% — 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.
How long its funders stay
25% of TAOS FERAL FELINE FRIENDS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
54% of TAOS FERAL FELINE FRIENDS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $93k that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from funders outside New Mexico, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $109k 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
TAOS FERAL FELINE FRIENDS's revenue grew 35% between 2021 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TAOS FERAL FELINE FRIENDS?
- TAOS FERAL FELINE FRIENDS (New Mexico) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $201,323 to it, the largest being THE TAOS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($57,950). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TAOS FERAL FELINE FRIENDS have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $201,323 in grants to TAOS FERAL FELINE FRIENDS, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TAOS FERAL FELINE FRIENDS?
- THE TAOS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $57,950 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TAOS FERAL FELINE FRIENDS 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 9 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