Conservation Voters New Mexico
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 200016255
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Santa Fe, NM, USA
- Phone
- 5059928683
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,369,000
- Expenses
- $1,629,997
- Assets
- $985,391
- Liabilities
- $406,009
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DEMIS R FOSTER (CEO)
- MARY LARAIA (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- DEMIS R FOSTER (CEO): $195,368 total reported compensation
- MOLLY TAYLOR (COO): $168,582 total reported compensation
- STEVEN ROMERO (CFO): $146,824 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To hold elected officials accountable for their environmental votes and to educate voters on conservation issues.
What it reported doing in 2024
Held elected officials accountable for their environmental record by educating the public and voters through the publication and distribution of an annual conservation scorecard. Analyze filed legislation for conservation impacts. Research, develop, draft, and lobby on behalf of pro-conservation legislation. Engage in pro-conservation administrative actions and rulemakings.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 89% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 51
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 16
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 60.4%; rating input score 60
- Program expense ratio: 50.1%; rating input score 50
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.94 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 96.7%; rating input score 97; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -19.1%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.6; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.41; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 28.8%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.2% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.8% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 60.4% of revenue deployed · 50.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $816K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $195K · 15 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 29 of 31 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 11 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 50/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D land buildings reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.