Albuquerque Convention & Visitors Bureau
Albuquerque, NM · EIN 85-0285280. Reported 45 grants totalling $929,000 to 36 organizations across tax years 2022-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 36 distinct organizations, with 6% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 50% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 1 year-to-year transition. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $19,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $25,000; the smallest was $10,000 and the largest $50,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The National Institute of Flamenco | Albuquerque, NM | $58,000 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Adelante Development Center Inc | Albuquerque, NM | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Big Jim Farms | Corrales, NM | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Electric Playhouse | Albuquerque, NM | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Friends of the Orphan Signs | Albuquerque, NM | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Blue River Productions | Albuquerque, NM | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Fusion | Albuquerque, NM | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Luna and Luz | Albuquerque, NM | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Amp Concerts | Albuquerque, NM | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Flyby Provisions | Albuquerque, NM | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Gathering of Nations Limited | Albuquerque, NM | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Mariachi Spectacular | Albuquerque, NM | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Heritage Hotels | Albuquerque, NM | $31,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Downtownabq Mainstreet Initiative | Albuquerque, NM | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Flamenco Works Inc | Albuquerque, NM | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Gujrati Samaj of New Mexico | Albuquerque, NM | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Historic Old Town Association | Albuquerque, NM | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| New Mexico Trade Alliance | Albuquerque, NM | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| New Mexico Winegrowers Association Inc | Albuquerque, NM | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tourabq | Albuquerque, NM | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Artemis Promotions Inc | Albuquerque, NM | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Carrie Tingley Hospital Foundation Inc | Albuquerque, NM | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| CASA Flamenca Inc | Albuquerque, NM | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| New Mexico Restaurant Association | Albuquerque, NM | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Albuquerque Little Theatre Inc | Albuquerque, NM | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cardboard Playhouse Theatre Company | Albuquerque, NM | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Claycoda | Albuquerque, NM | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cocreations Candle Shop | Albuquerque, NM | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lapis Room | Albuquerque, NM | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| M'tucci's Bar Roma | Albuquerque, NM | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| New Nuevo | Albuquerque, NM | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Nob Hill Mainstreet | Albuquerque, NM | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Routes Bicycle Tours | Albuquerque, NM | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Santa Fe Art Tours LLC | Santa Fe, NM | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Mothership Alumni | Albuquerque, NM | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Upside Goods Co | Albuquerque, NM | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
8 of 36 (22%) received money in more than one year over the 2 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Big Jim Farms
EXPANSION PROJECTS AND NEW HOLIDAY PROGRAMMING 'WINTER OF ENCHANTMENT' ON THE WESTSIDE OF ALBUQUERQUE ALONG THE RIVER HELD FROM NOVEMBER 24 - DECEMBER 31, 2023. - Adelante Development Center
DURABLE MEDICAL EQUIPMENT RENTAL SERVICES TO PROMOTE ACCESSIBLE TOURISM IN ALBUQUERQUE. - Electric Playhouse
AN IMMERSIVE, DIGITAL EXPERIENCE INTRODUCING VISITORS TO QUINTESSENTIAL ALBUQUERQUE ACTIVITIES AND EXPERIENCES. - Blue River Productions
CREATION OF CHOCOLATE & COFFEE WEEK, FEATURING CHOCOLATE AND COFFEE RELATED EVENTS, ACTIVITIES, DINING EXPERIENCES, AND EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES THROUGHOUT ALBUQUERQUE. - Fusion
THE INAUGURAL RISING HIGH ARTS FESTIVAL WILL PRESENT 11 DAYS (OCTOBER 10TH - 20TH, 2024) OF DENSELY PACKED MULTI-DISCIPLINARY ARTS ACTIVITIES IN THE DOWNTOWN ABQ CORE, CENTERED ON BOTH SIDES OF THE PENDING RAIL TRAIL, IN THE EMERGING 1ST ST. THEATRE DISTRICT AND GLORIETA STATION LOCATIONS. - Luna and Luz
CREATION OF A PLACE WHERE LOCALS AND TOURISTS ALIKE WOULD GATHER TO BE IMMERSED IN LEARNING SOUTHWEST ARTS AND CULTURE THROUGH ARTIST, MUSIC, CULINARY AND WELLNESS EXPERTS WHO GUIDE GUESTS IN A UNIQUELY EXCEPTIONAL EXPERIENCE.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 16 of 36 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 17 | $395,000 | $25,000 |
| 2023 | 28 | $534,000 | $14,500 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $19,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New Mexico.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Albuquerque Convention & Visitors Bureau's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 10 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 20 First Plaza Nw 601, Albuquerque, NM, 87102.
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