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WESTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY FOUND

WESTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY FOUND (New Mexico) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $811,692 to it, the largest being BRINDLE FOUNDATION ($285,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$11M
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$812k
Net assets
$41M
7/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What Western New Mexico University Found does

Mission

To create, maintain, and administer assets for the benefit of western new mexico university.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Scholarships, awards, and grants for wnmu students, faculty and staff.

    $632,513 spentof which $374,875 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $632,513.

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 ($538k) Expenses 100 ($339k) Net assets 100 ($9.0M)2018 Revenue 104 ($561k) Expenses 122 ($413k) Net assets 109 ($9.8M)2019 Revenue 180 ($969k) Expenses 137 ($463k) Net assets 118 ($11M)2020 Revenue 226 ($1.2M) Expenses 133 ($451k) Net assets 123 ($11M)2021 Revenue 153 ($824k) Expenses 151 ($511k) Net assets 156 ($14M)2022 Revenue 211 ($1.1M) Expenses 208 ($706k) Net assets 139 ($13M)2023 Revenue 2559 ($14M) Expenses 193 ($653k) Net assets 294 ($27M)2024 Revenue 340 ($1.8M) Expenses 230 ($778k) Net assets 320 ($29M)2025 Revenue 2132 ($11M) Expenses 258 ($875k) Net assets 449 ($41M)
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Revenue (2132)Expenses (258)Net assets (449)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 $13M to $28M (+106%).

$9.4M
$10M
$11M
$12M
$15M
$13M
$28M
$30M
$42M
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

89% of WESTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY FOUND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,251 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$199k
’17
$147k
’18
$506k
’19
$762k
’20
$312k
’21
$430k
’22
$13M
’23
$1.0M
’24
$11M
’25
358
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.

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Listed161313131281198
Joined·+0+4+0+0+1+3+0+0
No longer listed·34015021
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $72k → $180k.

5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 WESTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY FOUND’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

WESTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY FOUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

33% 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 WESTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY FOUND.

35%
largest funder
78%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 88% · 2019 43% · 2020 56% · 2021 42% · 2022 47% · 2023 56% — growing more concentrated.

“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

60% of WESTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY FOUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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

71% of WESTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY FOUND's grant income comes from New Mexico funders.

MO
DE
NM

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

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’22
’23
New Mexico out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $271k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

WESTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY FOUND has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin92% · outside the comparable range
Months of reserve357.8mo · outside the comparable range
Revenue growth (annualized)47% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like WESTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY FOUND

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

72% of spending goes to programs.

Program 72%Management 21%Fundraising 7%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

92%

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

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Western New Mexico University · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds WESTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY FOUND?
WESTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY FOUND (New Mexico) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $811,692 to it, the largest being BRINDLE FOUNDATION ($285,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WESTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY FOUND have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $811,692 in grants to WESTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY FOUND, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WESTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY FOUND?
BRINDLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $285,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WESTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY FOUND 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 2017–2025), 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