Santa Fe Community Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 850303044
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Santa Fe, NM, USA
- Phone
- 505.988.9715
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $26,165,999
- Expenses
- $19,988,481
- Assets
- $144,071,491
- Liabilities
- $5,276,117
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
26 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHRISTOPHER GOETT (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- CHRISTOPHER GOETT (PRESIDENT & CEO): $300,242 total reported compensation
- SANDRA SESSION-ROBERTSON (VP FOR DEVELOPMENT & DONOR RELATIONS): $184,655 total reported compensation
- EILEEN STREET (CFO/CONTROLLER): $171,101 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 strengthen the health and vitality of northern New Mexico.
What it reported doing in 2024
Program services include grants program management and technical assistance trainings for local nonprofit organizations in grants research, financial management, and board development.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 85% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 79% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 65
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 83
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.6%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 88.3%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $23.73 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: 94.7%; rating input score 95; 24th 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; 66th 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: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 23.6%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.21; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.4%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 78.6% of revenue deployed · 88.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 20 of 20 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $17.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $300K · 26 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $646K reported
- Consistency: 39 of 40 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 307 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 303 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.