New Mexico · Nonprofit
VITAL SPACES
VITAL SPACES (New Mexico) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,500 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($7,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $503k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $13k
- Net assets
- $427k
What Vital Spaces does
Mission
Vital Spaces is a community vitality organization using the arts as a catalyst for economic, social, and cultural growth in santa fe. Our mission is to empower artists, support creative entrepreneurs, and foster a thriving creative economy that benefits the city's diverse populations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Vital Spaces produces and hosts over 300 activations annually, including workshops, classes, exhibitions, markets, and cultural events. Serves 15,000-20,000 visitors annually through free and low-cost public programming. Engages 250-350 artists through exhibitions, performances, markets, and creative programs. Supports over 50 volunteers, interns, and apprentices annually through workforce development and training opportunities. Maintains over 95% of programming as free or low-cost to ensure broad community access. Operates the community art closet, a monthly program serving 150-250 participants with free art supplies. Provides affordable studio space to local artists through the artist studio program, supporting creative production and income generation. Delivers workshops, classes, and entrepreneurship programming supporting 20-25 emerging artists and creative entrepreneurs annually. Facilitates youth and teen programs, including summer camps, dj training, and creative labs, building skills and career pathways. Operates the unhoused art program, providing ongoing creative opportunities and income pathways for individuals experiencing housing instability. Hosts artist markets and…
$241,969 spent$1,600 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $241,969.
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
Jim Heynan
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 VITAL SPACES’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
VITAL SPACES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% 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
60% 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 VITAL SPACES.
“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
60% of VITAL SPACES's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside New Mexico, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k 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
VITAL SPACES runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like VITAL SPACES
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
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VITAL SPACES: 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 VITAL SPACES?
- VITAL SPACES (New Mexico) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,500 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($7,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does VITAL SPACES have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $12,500 in grants to VITAL SPACES.
- Who is the largest funder of VITAL SPACES?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $7,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VITAL SPACES 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 FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), 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