Barry Lopez Foundation for Art & Environment

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
851182399
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2020
Location
Santa Fe, NM, USA
Phone
5054905950
Rating
46
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose

Reported finances

Revenue
$94,910
Expenses
$107,435
Assets
$11,277
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Toby Jurovics (Founding Director)
  • Annelies Mondi (Treasurer)
  • Eleanor Jones Harvey (Acting Chair)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Barry Lopez Foundation for Art & Environment collaborates with leading contemporary artists to create transformative artistic and cultural experiences that illuminate our connection to the natural world and help us navigate the dramatic choices we face about our future, including issues surrounding climate change, biodiversity, habitat loss, and our changing relationship with land in a time of environmental crisis. The foundation circulates original fine art exhibitions to museums and galleries around the United States, and sponsors commissions with visual artists, composers, and writers.

What it reported doing in 2024

We presented a photography exhibition "From Here to Horizon: Photographs in Honor of Barry Lopez" at the Museum of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX between August 22 and December 22, 2024, with a lecture by the Foundation's Director in November. Texas Tech told us that they had 30,000 visitors through the exhibit.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% 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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 5
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 25
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 5.3%; rating input score 5
  • Program expense ratio: 4.7%; rating input score 5

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -13.2%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.1; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 67%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -58.3% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -5.7% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 5.3% of revenue deployed · 4.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $5K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 5/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 5/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.