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THINK NEW MEXICO

THINK NEW MEXICO (New Mexico) receives grants from 73 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,371,607 to it, the largest being SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($590,737). 54 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$2.4M
Funders on record
73
Grants received
$4.4M
Net assets
$6.4M
54/73 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 87%
01What it does

What Think New Mexico does

Mission

Education and public policy research

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. In 2024, Think New Mexico researched, wrote, and published a policy report titled, solving new mexicos health care worker shortage, which laid out a 10-point plan with 20 separate legislative recommendations to address the urgent crisis of new mexicos health care worker shortage. Copies of the report were distributed to more than 20,000 new mexicans as part of our extensive public education efforts around this issue. Think New Mexico developed legislation to implement four of our proposed reforms and organized a diverse coalition of supporters to advocate for them during the 2025 legislative session. During the 2025 session, we successfully championed the enactment of a new permanent trust fund for medicaid, with 511 million in funding over the next three years and a goal of 2 billion. When it reaches that 2 billion target, the fund will generate 100 million in state funding for medicaid annually. With a 3:1 federal match, that will make 400 million available to increase reimbursement rates for health care providers. In addition, during 2024, Think New Mexico continued our ongoing effort to dramatically improve student outcomes in new mexicos public schools. Think New Mexico…

    $900,272 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $900,272.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($690k) Expenses 100 ($616k) Net assets 100 ($3.0M)2018 Revenue 88 ($609k) Expenses 88 ($544k) Net assets 98 ($2.9M)2019 Revenue 109 ($754k) Expenses 101 ($620k) Net assets 109 ($3.3M)2020 Revenue 111 ($767k) Expenses 100 ($616k) Net assets 100 ($3.0M)2021 Revenue 169 ($1.2M) Expenses 105 ($646k) Net assets 123 ($3.7M)2022 Revenue 162 ($1.1M) Expenses 120 ($738k) Net assets 123 ($3.7M)2023 Revenue 235 ($1.6M) Expenses 135 ($834k) Net assets 161 ($4.8M)2024 Revenue 355 ($2.4M) Expenses 172 ($1.1M) Net assets 213 ($6.4M)
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Revenue (355)Expenses (172)Net assets (213)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $3.7M to $6.6M (+76%).

$3.0M
$2.9M
$3.3M
$3.1M
$3.7M
$3.7M
$6.6M
$7.5M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

96% of THINK NEW MEXICO’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,814 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$75k
’17
$66k
’18
$134k
’19
$152k
’20
$522k
’21
$382k
’22
$790k
’23
$1.4M
’24
11
months of
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

Roberta Cooper Ramo

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed11991011121313
Joined·+0+0+1+1+1+1+0
No longer listed·2000000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 27 funders to 44 funders, grant income rose $216k → $912k.

13 of 73 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 THINK NEW MEXICO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 73 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

THINK NEW MEXICO has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left

56% 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 THINK NEW MEXICO.

14%
largest funder
27%
top three
~20
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 27% · 2019 11% · 2020 45% · 2021 18% · 2022 20% · 2023 16% — 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

67% of THINK NEW MEXICO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

63% of THINK NEW MEXICO's grant income comes from New Mexico funders.

MN
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MI
NY
MA
OH
NJ
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CA
CO
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DE
NM
KS
DC
OK
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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New Mexico out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

THINK NEW MEXICO runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,274 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin57% · top quartile
Months of reserve10.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)20% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like THINK NEW MEXICO

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 6%Fundraising 9%

Governance

12
board members
92%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

88%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NM

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Thinknmre LLC · disregarded

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Questions and answers

Who funds THINK NEW MEXICO?
THINK NEW MEXICO (New Mexico) receives grants from 73 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,371,607 to it, the largest being SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($590,737). 54 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THINK NEW MEXICO have?
IRS filings report 73 organizations giving $4,371,607 in grants to THINK NEW MEXICO, 54 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THINK NEW MEXICO?
SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $590,737 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THINK NEW MEXICO 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 73 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing