New Mexico · Nonprofit
VIDA MEJOR CAPITAL INC
VIDA MEJOR CAPITAL INC (New Mexico) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,740 to it, the largest being THE REINVESTMENT FUND INC ($32,740). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $578k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $41k
- Net assets
- $68k
What Vida Mejor Capital Inc does
Mission
Primary exempt purpose: at vida mejor capital, our mission is to empower new mexican small businesses through technical assistance and equitable access to capital, with a dedicated focus on advancing food justice, food sovereignty, and addressing issues of energy and digital inequity. We are committed to fostering sustainable development by providing the necessary resources and support to individuals and organizations working towards a more just and inclusive society. Guided by principles of fairness and collaboration, vida mejor capital strives to creaste lasting positive impacts in the realms of social and environmental justice, ensuring a better quality of life for all.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Healthy food financing fund (hfff): vida mejor capital serves as the fund administrator for the new mexico edd healthy food financing fund. This program is designed to increase access to food for historically under-resourced communities, address workforce development challenges through the creation and retention of jobs in the agricultural and food supply chain and strengthen and diversify state market channels. The program also supports small and mid-scale food and agricultural operations, advances food-safe storage and transportation, and helps producers implement regenerative agricultural practices. In fy25, vida mejor capital, in collaboration with the new mexico edd, funded 8 businesses with $275,000 to acheive these goals. Over three grant cycles (edd fy23-25), the grant program has supported 41 businesses with $1,625,000 in funding. These efforts contribute to improving conditions in nm food deserts and expand access to healthy food.
$155,234 spent45% of program spendingHealthy food financing initiative (hffi) - vida mejor capital is a partner in the usda healthy food financing initiative, which serves underserved communities by increasing access to healthy and fresh food. The initial launch phase of the program at vida mejor capital began in fy 2024 and will continue through fy29. In 2025, the new mexico healthy food financing fund partnership led by vida mejor capital, transitioned from planning into active program implementation and early delivery to usda-eligible new mexico food retail businesses. The first half of the year focused on outreach, ecosystem engagement, and foundational research. Building on initial planning work, partners execute a coordinated outreach strategy and begin engaging target audiences statewide. During spring 2025, the partnership convened roundtables to gather stakeholder input, which directly informed the development of accelerator and training curricula. Beginning in mid-2025, the partnership launched core programmatic activities. In july 2025, cohort based technical assistance programs, including one-on-one consulting, sprint accelerators and in depth training seminars were initiated, targeting healthy food…
$146,470 spent42% of program spendingRural business development grant- vida mejor capital provided expert independent consultants to deliver one-on-one technical assistance to five native-owned rural small businesses. This ongoing project is designed to promote job growth and retention, training and technical assistance, and other business-oriented developmental support. In fy 2025, vida mejor capital oversaw the distribution of over $38,800 in grants to eligible businesses for the initial stage of identifying needs, hiring consultants, and developing workplans.
$46,363 spent13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $348,067.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $13k to $46k (+243%).
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 81% · 2025 45%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of VIDA MEJOR CAPITAL INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of VIDA MEJOR CAPITAL 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
VIDA MEJOR CAPITAL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 VIDA MEJOR CAPITAL INC.
“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
VIDA MEJOR CAPITAL INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New Mexico, across 2 states 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
VIDA MEJOR CAPITAL INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding VIDA MEJOR CAPITAL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $250k on record.
- Department of the Treasury$150k
- Department of Agriculture$100k
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 VIDA MEJOR CAPITAL INC
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
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
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 VIDA MEJOR CAPITAL 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds VIDA MEJOR CAPITAL INC?
- VIDA MEJOR CAPITAL INC (New Mexico) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,740 to it, the largest being THE REINVESTMENT FUND INC ($32,740). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VIDA MEJOR CAPITAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $40,740 in grants to VIDA MEJOR CAPITAL INC.
- Who is the largest funder of VIDA MEJOR CAPITAL INC?
- THE REINVESTMENT FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $32,740 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VIDA MEJOR CAPITAL 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 FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 2 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