African American Museum & Cultural Center of New Mexico
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 043766680
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Albquerque, NM, USA
- Phone
- 5057304504
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Museum, Museum Activities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,395
- Expenses
- $4,819
- Assets
- $14,406
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RITA POWDRELL (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- RITA POWDRELL (PRESIDENT)
- PATRICIA SALISBURY (SERGANT AT A)
- KATARINA POWDRELL (SECRETARY)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Mission statement the mission of the african american museum and cultural center of New Mexico is to increase awareness and understanding of the contributions of people of african descent with emphasis on New Mexico and the southwest. The museum will be a vehicle for the perpetual definition of our history.
What it reported doing in 2025
The aamccnm developed a hard bound historical on the goals, mission and vision of the aamccnm including names and pictures of board members, historical and cultural activities accomplished through the years, architectural rendition of the planned standing structure for the museum and a financial projection of the budget, revenue generating activities and donations. The publication will be done by print ninja the printing firm approved by the city of albuquerque, fiscal agent for the museum. We meet with dr. Horn director of the fort stanton nm museum to plan an exhibit on the lives of african americans in the military during the wars in nm with indigenous tribes on two occasions once in albuquerque and once at the fort stanton facility. We submitted a proposal for a proposed exhibit which was approved by the department of cultural affairs in june of 2025. The funding would be in place late 2025 or early 2026. We submitted a request to the legislature for additional capital outlay funds for the acquisition of land for the museum 100, 000.00 of the request was approved for the 2026/2027 fiscal year. We had several meetings with the city of albuquerque, department of arts and culture on the expenditure of our capital outlay funds. We worked with sun valley realtors assessing and looking at properties in albuquerque that might be suitable for purchase by the museum additionally, the board of the aamccnm conducted 22 meetings of the board either on zoom or in-person to plan and organize our publication, work on acquiring land, work on our fort stanton proposal and discuss any issues relevant to the ongoing operations of the aamccnm.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 83% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 97
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 90.6%; rating input score 91
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -101.2%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.99; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -124.2% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -135.1% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -14.3% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 90.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.