New Mexico · Nonprofit
UPPER GILA WATERSHED ALLIANCE
UPPER GILA WATERSHED ALLIANCE (New Mexico) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $474,954 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($100,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $448k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $475k
- Net assets
- $259k
What Upper Gila Watershed Alliance does
Mission
Working to restore the long-term health of the upper gila watershed and its communities of life. Through advocacy, education, research and restoration projects, we are striving to build communities of stewards in more locally based economies.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Composting: led a country-wide composting project using school cafeteria leftovers and woody debris from local silviculture projects, benefiting 20,000 people.
$251,375 spent$229,387 earned by the program80% of program spendingEducation: conducted environmental education for elementary school students in grant, hidalgo, and luna counties, benefiting 5,000 people.
$45,058 spent$46,150 earned by the program14% of program spendingRestoration: worked on stream restoration projects benefiting 29,000 people
$19,710 spent6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $316,143.
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 2021 to 2022, from $156k to $260k (+67%).
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: 2024 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of UPPER GILA WATERSHED ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Sharman Apt Russell
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $55k → $55k.
1 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 UPPER GILA WATERSHED ALLIANCE’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
UPPER GILA WATERSHED ALLIANCE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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
74% 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 UPPER GILA WATERSHED ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 42% · 2019 44% · 2020 50% · 2021 46% · 2022 26% · 2023 36% — 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
43% of UPPER GILA WATERSHED ALLIANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
UPPER GILA WATERSHED ALLIANCE draws 69% of its grant income from funders outside New Mexico, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $100k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
UPPER GILA WATERSHED ALLIANCE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like UPPER GILA WATERSHED ALLIANCE
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UPPER GILA WATERSHED ALLIANCE?
- UPPER GILA WATERSHED ALLIANCE (New Mexico) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $474,954 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($100,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UPPER GILA WATERSHED ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $474,954 in grants to UPPER GILA WATERSHED ALLIANCE, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UPPER GILA WATERSHED ALLIANCE?
- TIDES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UPPER GILA WATERSHED ALLIANCE 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 11 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