New Mexico · Nonprofit
THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF PLACE INC
THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF PLACE INC (New Mexico) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $92,845 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($26,845). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $123k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $93k
- Net assets
- $140k
What The Center for the Study of Place Inc does
Mission
The organization's mission is to enhance the public's awareness, understanding of, and comprehension of places-urban, suburban, rural and wild-with programs of research, education and publications.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The organization publishes books to enhance the public's awareness, understanding of, and comprehension of places
$82,182 spent92% of program spendingThe organization maintains properties in arthur, nebraska, including the cotton mather library, a historic schoolhouse and bunk house to conduct educational programs and research.
$7,031 spent8% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $89,213.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $172k to $109k (−37%).
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.
94% of THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF PLACE INC’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 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $21k → $20k.
4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 91% 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 THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF PLACE INC’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
THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF PLACE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
91% 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 THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF PLACE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 95% · 2019 100% · 2020 53% · 2021 56% · 2022 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.
Where its funders are
91% of THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF PLACE INC'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 $8k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside New Mexico, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $85k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF PLACE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF PLACE INC
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.
Public support
96%
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 THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF PLACE INC: 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 THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF PLACE INC?
- THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF PLACE INC (New Mexico) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $92,845 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($26,845). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF PLACE INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $92,845 in grants to THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF PLACE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF PLACE INC?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $26,845 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF PLACE INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 6 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