New Mexico · Nonprofit
UNM RAINFOREST INNOVATIONS
UNM RAINFOREST INNOVATIONS (New Mexico) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.1M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $12M
What Unm Rainforest Innovations does
Mission
To support the university of new mexico as the source of innovation management, patent prosecution, and licensing of technologies developed at the university.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Unm Rainforest Innovations is the technology transfer organization supporting the university of new mexico ("unm"), and the corporation was formed under the state of new mexico university research park and economic development act. Unm Rainforest Innovations endeavors to make it as easy as possible for unm researchers and faculty inventors to disclose inventions. Unm Rainforest Innovations protects technologies (intellectual property) developed at unm through patent and copyright consistent with the provisions of the federal bayh-dole act. During fiscal year 2025, Unm Rainforest Innovations received 46 issued patents from the u.s. Patent and trademark office and filed 63 new patent applications with the u.s. Patent and trademark office. Additionally, during fiscal year 2025, Unm Rainforest Innovations entered into 44 license and option to license agreements. As the economic development organization for the university of new mexico, Unm Rainforest Innovations seeks to find various initiatives to create economic development that is relevant to the university. Unm Rainforest Innovations has received, in fiscal year 2025, one grant from the city of santa fe economic development to…
$9,072,976 spentof which $433,500 as grants$3,950,266 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $9,072,976.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $15M to $22M (+49%).
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: 2022 3% · 2023 8% · 2024 16% · 2025 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
48% of UNM RAINFOREST INNOVATIONS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 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.
Chief executive
Elizabeth Kuuttila
CEO & chief economic dev. Officer
Board chair
Sandra Begay
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of UNM RAINFOREST INNOVATIONS’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.
Where its funders are
UNM RAINFOREST INNOVATIONS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New Mexico, across 1 state in all.
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
UNM RAINFOREST INNOVATIONS is better cushioned than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding UNM RAINFOREST INNOVATIONS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.7M on record.
- Department of Commerce$1.7M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like UNM RAINFOREST INNOVATIONS
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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- University of New Mexico · exempt
- Lobo Energy Incorporated · exempt
- University of New Mexico Medical Group · exempt
- Unm Sandoval Regional Medical Center Inc · exempt
- Lobo Development Corporation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNM RAINFOREST INNOVATIONS: 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 UNM RAINFOREST INNOVATIONS?
- UNM RAINFOREST INNOVATIONS (New Mexico) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNM RAINFOREST INNOVATIONS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $20,000 in grants to UNM RAINFOREST INNOVATIONS.
- Who is the largest funder of UNM RAINFOREST INNOVATIONS?
- PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNM RAINFOREST INNOVATIONS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 1 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