New Mexico · Nonprofit
THE LAB LEARNING AND ACTION BUFFET
THE LAB LEARNING AND ACTION BUFFET (New Mexico) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $338,000 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($275,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $117k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $338k
- Net assets
- $73k
What The Lab Learning and Action Buffet does
Mission
The mission of the lab is to support the ambitions of youth in creating a sustainable and healthy community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The lab provides hands-on opportunities for youth ages 15 to 25, to engage in a variety of projects involving art, communication, and civic engagement. The lab radio hour - career technical education: youth participants receive in-depth mentorship and job skills training in the production of a youth- driven radio show that airs on ktal lp 101.5. It features music and interviews with young people and adult mentors. The creating equity in education (cee) project: lab youth leaders created a public awareness campaing to increase understanding in new mexico about what equity in education looks like and how to achieve it. The lab drumming workshop: in this interactive workshop, youth participants, children and adults experience the therapeutic benefits of hand drumming while learning a new language and team-building skills. The happy canvas projects: participants of all ages are creating artistic canvas squares based on focus questions such as: what does your heart beat 4? What mends your heart and nurtures racial healing?
$91,550 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $91,550.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $25k to $85k (+245%).
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.
71% of THE LAB LEARNING AND ACTION BUFFET’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $3k → $85k.
From the IRS filings of THE LAB LEARNING AND ACTION BUFFET’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 LAB LEARNING AND ACTION BUFFET leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 99%; 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: 2020 100% · 2021 93% · 2022 83% · 2023 88% — 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.
Where its funders are
THE LAB LEARNING AND ACTION BUFFET draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside New Mexico, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 LAB LEARNING AND ACTION BUFFET's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THE LAB LEARNING AND ACTION BUFFET
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
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE LAB LEARNING AND ACTION BUFFET: 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 LAB LEARNING AND ACTION BUFFET?
- THE LAB LEARNING AND ACTION BUFFET (New Mexico) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $338,000 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($275,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE LAB LEARNING AND ACTION BUFFET have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $338,000 in grants to THE LAB LEARNING AND ACTION BUFFET, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE LAB LEARNING AND ACTION BUFFET?
- WK Kellogg Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $275,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE LAB LEARNING AND ACTION BUFFET 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 4 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