New Mexico · Nonprofit
THE SANTA FE TRAIL SCHOOL FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC
THE SANTA FE TRAIL SCHOOL FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC (New Mexico) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $184,400 to it, the largest being WHITED FOUNDATION ($110,200). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE SANTA FE TRAIL SCHOOL FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 14,184 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,184 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Angel Fire Community Foundationshared funderslocal
- Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizonaportfolio match
- The Melville Hankins Family Foundation Incportfolio match
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.
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.
60% of THE SANTA FE TRAIL SCHOOL FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $48k → $20k.
From the IRS filings of THE SANTA FE TRAIL SCHOOL FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS 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 SANTA FE TRAIL SCHOOL FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 97%; 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 53% · 2018 55% · 2019 70% · 2020 61% · 2021 62% · 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
100% of THE SANTA FE TRAIL SCHOOL FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC's grant income comes from New Mexico funders.
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 4 funders put you under-funded among the 25 organizations that share them.
- Angel Fire Community Foundationshared funderslocalNM · backs 2 organizations that share your funders · funds 9 organizations near you
- Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizonaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Melville Hankins Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Arts Federation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jackson Fenner Foundation Community Bank Na Trusteeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Scottsdale Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- South Shore Arts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Western States Arts Federationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Witter Bynner Foundation For Poetry Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Barbara Erdman Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Jim Henson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like THE SANTA FE TRAIL SCHOOL FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
98%
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 SANTA FE TRAIL SCHOOL FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE SANTA FE TRAIL SCHOOL FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC?
- THE SANTA FE TRAIL SCHOOL FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC (New Mexico) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $184,400 to it, the largest being WHITED FOUNDATION ($110,200). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE SANTA FE TRAIL SCHOOL FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $184,400 in grants to THE SANTA FE TRAIL SCHOOL FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE SANTA FE TRAIL SCHOOL FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC?
- WHITED FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $110,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE SANTA FE TRAIL SCHOOL FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing