New Mexico · Nonprofit
THE COUSE FOUNDATION
THE COUSE FOUNDATION (New Mexico) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,680,079 to it, the largest being LUNDER FOUNDATION ($441,220). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $10M
What The Couse Foundation does
Mission
Form 990 - organizations mission statement of purpose: through its archives, collections, and programming, the couse-sharp historic site preserves and interprets taos crossroads of cultures, promoting and facilitating research, education, and new perspectives on the taos society of artists, early artists of taos, and regional and indigenous communities in relation to the greater story of the multicultural american west.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Accomplishments include multiple culturally relevant exhibitions of artwork, archival materials, and associated objects; educational tours, programs, publications, and events for students and the general public; and assembling, preserving, housing and making accessible an archive and research library available to students, scholars, and interested members of the public. Subjects of the above activities include e. I. Couse, j. H. Sharp, and the other members of the taos society of artists, active in the early 20th century; other early artists of taos; and the cultural milieu in which all of the above worked, including interactions with residents of taos pueblo, other indigenous groups, the hispano community of the region, and the anglo settlers in the area.
$807,859 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $807,859.
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 2020 to 2021, from $5.9M to $7.8M (+32%).
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: 2022 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of THE COUSE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Elizabeth Crittenden Palacios
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $17k → $128k.
8 of 34 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 THE COUSE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 funders by total. 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 COUSE FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
39% 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 COUSE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 45% · 2019 50% · 2020 43% · 2021 42% · 2022 33% · 2023 36% — 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
42% of THE COUSE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years 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
THE COUSE FOUNDATION draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside New Mexico, across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $503k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 COUSE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding THE COUSE FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $83k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$42k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$42k
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 THE COUSE FOUNDATION
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
56% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
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 COUSE FOUNDATION: 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 COUSE FOUNDATION?
- THE COUSE FOUNDATION (New Mexico) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,680,079 to it, the largest being LUNDER FOUNDATION ($441,220). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE COUSE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $1,680,079 in grants to THE COUSE FOUNDATION, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE COUSE FOUNDATION?
- LUNDER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $441,220 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE COUSE FOUNDATION 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 34 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