New Mexico · Nonprofit
WOMEN'S ECONOMIC SELF-SUFFICIENCY TEAM CORP
WOMEN'S ECONOMIC SELF-SUFFICIENCY TEAM CORP (New Mexico) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,379,185 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($604,973). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.1M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $3.4M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Women's Economic Self-Sufficiency Team Corp does
Mission
Founded in 1989, wesst is a home to entrepreneurs providing a support system of consulting, training, incubation, and lending to help new mexicans strengthen and grow their small businesses through sustainable business models,financial empowerment, and job creation. Wesst has been a long-time resource partner of the u.s. Small business administration and hosted six sba women's business centers in new mexico. This was reduced to four sba women's business centers at 9/30/2025. Wesst is also an sba microlender and a cdfi community development financial institution.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
1 founded in 1988, wesst is a home to entrepreneurs providing a support system of consulting, training, incubation, and lending to help new mexicans strengthen and grow their small businesses through sustainable business models,financial empowerment, and job creation. In 2025, wesst has faciliated the start-up of 122 new businesses, the creation of 365 new jobs and over 7,199,900 million of capital access for clients. Additionally in the same year alone, we recorded 86,553,880 in client revenue across new mexico. Headquartered in albuquerque, wesst services the entire state of new mexico through its regional office network in farmington, hobbs and las cruces. In 2009, wesst opened wesst enterprise center (wec), a leed certified mixed-use small business incubator in downtown albuquerque that accelerates the development of growth-oriented companies, reflective of wessts ability to produce economic impact. Wesst has been a long-time resource partner of the u.s. Small business administration and hosted six sba women's business centers in new mexico. This was reduced to four sba women's business centers at 10/1/2025. Wesst is also an sba microlender and a cdfi community development…
$3,288,245 spent$445,543 earned by the program94% of program spendingFinancial assistance: as of december 31, 2025, wesst had 52 loans outstanding totaling approximately 1,090,239. These loans are for small businesses which are unable to obtain financing from banks or other traditional services, and assistance in accessing other financial resources.
$192,695 spent$75,284 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,480,940.
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 2024 to 2025, from $12M to $13M (+11%).
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: 2017 44% · 2018 42% · 2019 55% · 2020 68% · 2021 65% · 2022 51% · 2023 56% · 2024 35% · 2025 44%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of WOMEN'S ECONOMIC SELF-SUFFICIENCY TEAM CORP’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Miriam Bruce
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 10 funders, grant income fell $425k → $82k.
7 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $277k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Albuquerque Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money WOMEN'S ECONOMIC SELF-SUFFICIENCY TEAM CORP raised.
From the IRS filings of WOMEN'S ECONOMIC SELF-SUFFICIENCY TEAM CORP’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
WOMEN'S ECONOMIC SELF-SUFFICIENCY TEAM CORP has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 42% · 2019 71% · 2020 85% · 2021 43% · 2022 42% · 2023 32% — 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
40% of WOMEN'S ECONOMIC SELF-SUFFICIENCY TEAM CORP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
WOMEN'S ECONOMIC SELF-SUFFICIENCY TEAM CORP draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside New Mexico, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $520k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Against its field
WOMEN'S ECONOMIC SELF-SUFFICIENCY TEAM CORP runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding WOMEN'S ECONOMIC SELF-SUFFICIENCY TEAM CORP receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15.8M on record.
- Small Business Administration$13.5M
- Department of Commerce$2.3M
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 WOMEN'S ECONOMIC SELF-SUFFICIENCY TEAM CORP
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 WOMEN'S ECONOMIC SELF-SUFFICIENCY TEAM CORP: 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 WOMEN'S ECONOMIC SELF-SUFFICIENCY TEAM CORP?
- WOMEN'S ECONOMIC SELF-SUFFICIENCY TEAM CORP (New Mexico) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,379,185 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($604,973). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WOMEN'S ECONOMIC SELF-SUFFICIENCY TEAM CORP have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $3,379,185 in grants to WOMEN'S ECONOMIC SELF-SUFFICIENCY TEAM CORP, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WOMEN'S ECONOMIC SELF-SUFFICIENCY TEAM CORP?
- WK Kellogg Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $604,973 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WOMEN'S ECONOMIC SELF-SUFFICIENCY TEAM CORP 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 30 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing