Public Health Acupuncture of New Mexico

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
800415717
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2012–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Albuquerque, NM, USA
Phone
5052327654
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$4,982
Expenses
$10,117
Assets
$14,935

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Eleni Helen Fredlund (President)

People named in this filing

  • Eleni Helen Fredlund (President)
  • Nityamo Lian (Secretary)
  • Florence Kess (Treasurer)

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

The mission of Public Health Acupuncture of New Mexico is to promote the use of acupuncture to improve the health of people, to reduce health disparities, and to develop a public health acupuncture practitioner workforce. We achieve this by: Promoting the use of acupuncture for public health applications. Providing support in starting up acupuncture and acutherapy programs for addictions, post-disaster, and other situations. Training practitioners.

What it reported doing in 2025

Acudetox Programs - Affiliated Acudetox specialists and acupuncturists provided Acudetox and Acutherapy services. They gave 924 Acudetox treatments and 1119 ear acupressure seed treatments to individuals during 335 clinics. Volunteers provided 880 (GAAP) hours of service. Activities benefited 5 NM counties.Trainings: We provided one Acudetox training in Albuquerque with a total of 15 trainees. One free scholarship was given. Two ear seed acupressure (Acutherapy) trainings were given to 22 participants. 2 scholarships were given. Acutherapy training videos are available online free to volunteer MRC and fire depts and at low-cost ($20-25) to others. 61 people participated in the 4-hour online training. Free links were given out to 3 groups. Additionally, 102 people watched a 3 minute stress reduction video available on our website for free. One presentation on Navajo Nation was given to 19 participants. Two other presentations of one hour to 3 participants. A total of 359 participant hours of training and presentation were given. 320 Earseed kits consisting of earseeds, alcohol swabs, stickers with instructions, and an ear map were made up and given out nationally post disaster through AWB (Acupuncturists Without Borders) and to On Our Own peer recovery group in MD, and on the ground support in MN.Our team participated in two deployments post incidents. Long-term recovery care for caseworkers and survivors post Hurricane Hellene in TN. Support post-suicide attempt in Montezuma, NM.We helped edit a peer reviewed article on ear acupressure (Acutherapy) in conjunction with the allergy department of Hitchcock Medical Center in NH. DOM volunteers provided ongoing supervision to 20 Acudetox specialists at no cost. Acupuncture supplies were provided to 10 Acudetox specialists and 2 trainers. Insurance was provided for 8 Acudetox specialists and 6 supervisors or trainers.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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: 93
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 20
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 82%; rating input score 82

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -103.1%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.48; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 685.5%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -2.2% per year; rating input score 0; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -4.8% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 82% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $8K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2012 to 2025
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 0/100.