New Mexico · Nonprofit
THE MAY CENTER FOR LEARNING
THE MAY CENTER FOR LEARNING (New Mexico) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $915,967 to it, the largest being GALE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($352,500). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $916k
- Net assets
- $234k
What The May Center for Learning does
Mission
The May Center for Learning empowers intelligent students with learning differences to be successful, confident learners who recognize the importance of communication, collaboration, and community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
During the 2024-2025 school year, The May Center for Learning served 99 students through our school year and summer programs. Our teacher institute provided professional development for 207 teachers and impacted over 2,500 students in classrooms across new mexico during the 2024-25 school year. We also developed strategic partnerships across the state to reach thousands of families, providing free education related to learning differences and advocacy, including the launch of a new substack publication and podcast and radio appearances throughout the year. In summer 2025, we moved into our new campus at 32 puesta del sol, which is quickly becoming a hub for learning difference education statewide.
$1,957,971 spentof which $254,371 as grants$1,567,097 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,957,971.
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 $550k to $762k (+39%).
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: 2021 11% · 2022 2% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
11% of THE MAY CENTER FOR LEARNING’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $37k → $59k.
8 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 MAY CENTER FOR LEARNING’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 MAY CENTER FOR LEARNING has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 38% 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
28% 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 MAY CENTER FOR LEARNING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 51% · 2019 42% · 2020 27% · 2021 32% · 2022 27% · 2023 51% — 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
38% of THE MAY CENTER FOR LEARNING's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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 MAY CENTER FOR LEARNING draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside New Mexico, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $238k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 MAY CENTER FOR LEARNING's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 8 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like THE MAY CENTER FOR LEARNING
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE MAY CENTER FOR LEARNING: 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 MAY CENTER FOR LEARNING?
- THE MAY CENTER FOR LEARNING (New Mexico) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $915,967 to it, the largest being GALE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($352,500). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE MAY CENTER FOR LEARNING have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $915,967 in grants to THE MAY CENTER FOR LEARNING, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE MAY CENTER FOR LEARNING?
- GALE FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $352,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE MAY CENTER FOR LEARNING 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 25 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