New Mexico Legal Aid Inc

Analysis

New Mexico Legal Aid Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Albuquerque, NM. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1950, 76 years ago. Its declared purposes cover crime and legal-related, which this site groups under human rights and equality. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, New Mexico Legal Aid Inc reported income of $12.0m and spending of $12.6m, spending 105% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $8.1m to $12.0m (+48%), an average of +10% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 35%. Over the whole period it spent 97% of the income it received.

Among 9,611 United States charities whose main cause is human rights and equality and that reported income, New Mexico Legal Aid Inc sits at the 97th percentile: it is larger than about 97% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 96th percentile, and in the 97th percentile within NM. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Utah County Public Defender Association ($12.0m), Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty ($12.0m) and Central California Legal Services Inc ($11.9m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% and program service revenue 0.5% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $357k (2.8% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $7.8m. At year end it held assets of $6.8m against liabilities of $4.2m, net assets of $2.6m. It reported 133 employees.