New Mexico · Nonprofit
The Gardens Edge Inc
The Gardens Edge Inc (New Mexico) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $804,487 to it, the largest being THE VIBRANT VILLAGE FOUNDATION ($442,862). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $123k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $804k
- Net assets
- $661k
What The Gardens Edge Inc does
Mission
The Gardens Edge supports sustainable agriculture, micro-enterprise, and education in rural communities in order to revitalize cultural knowledge and improve economic well-being.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Traditional Medicine: This program helps train and support Maya women to learn traditional healing with medicinal plants, midwifery, and other healing modalities to offer holistic approaches to maternal health, emotional wellbeing, and other health issues. Serves 100
$77,176 spentof which $76,000 as grants51% of program spendingQachuu Aloom works with 500 Mayan families in Guatemala. Our grant goes to support gardening, seed saving, nutrition, and maternal health services and workshops, including home visits to these families. The 500 families live in 24 different villages, and each family receives workshops and home visits from Qachuu Alooms field team, as well as access to other special educational workshops and help marketing their crop and seed surplus. Mothers and their children in our maternal health project receive monthly cooking and gardening classes. Serving 500 families.
$52,531 spentof which $40,958 as grants35% of program spendingSand Dam: This project is building two Sand Dams to their second stage, to bring water to 525 Mayan families in Guatemala. We are also doing continued reforestation on hillsides around the dam. Serves 525 households.
$8,037 spentof which $8,000 as grants5% of program spendingSeed Travels Project: The project is an exchange between farmers from Guatemala, NM, and California. We plant Amaranth seeds with partner gardens and host events at the gardens throughout the growing season. This year we had 2 gardens with an average of 30 people at each event.
$7,098 spent5% of program spendingFarmer to Farmer: Mayan farmers visited New Mexico and California to share their stores with churches, community groups and other farmers. This visit is cross-cultural learning experiences that benefit the Mayan visitors as well as the US hosts, and people who attend workshops and talks. Serving 500.
$5,466 spent4% of program spendingJ Agricultural program - This program offers opportunities for residents of Albuquerque to participate in gardening events throughout the season. The community is invited to learn to plant , water with traditional acequia systems and harvest at the end of the season. Serves 80.
$1,191 spent1% of program spendingAncestral Skills workshops provide opportunities for youth and their families to learn ancestral skills from elders. We facilitate workshops in a variety of skills such as pottery, basket making, fiber arts, archery, and woodworking. Students learn skills that are often at risk of disappearing. These experiences help deepen our relationships to the plants around us by learning we can create and transform them into tools, medicines containers and clothes. Serves 40.
$600 spent0% of program spendingEducation - This program offers educational opportunities to Mayan students who would not otherwise have the opportunity to continue their study. Specifically focuses on opportunities like, cultural preservation, native language, organizational development. Serves 15.
The 8 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $152,099.
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 2021 to 2022, from $622k to $535k (−14%).
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.
81% of The Gardens Edge Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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 narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $119k → $76k.
4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 Gardens Edge 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 Gardens Edge Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 45% · 2019 61% · 2020 56% · 2021 76% · 2022 95% · 2023 47% — 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
50% of The Gardens Edge Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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 Gardens Edge Inc draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside New Mexico, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $133k 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
The Gardens Edge Inc's revenue fell 46% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In New Mexico
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
48%
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 Gardens Edge 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 Gardens Edge Inc?
- The Gardens Edge Inc (New Mexico) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $804,487 to it, the largest being THE VIBRANT VILLAGE FOUNDATION ($442,862). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Gardens Edge Inc have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $804,487 in grants to The Gardens Edge Inc, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Gardens Edge Inc?
- THE VIBRANT VILLAGE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $442,862 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Gardens Edge 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 10 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