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SEARCHLIGHT NEW MEXICO NEWS

EIN 81-3234552 SANTA FE, NM

Revenue 2025
$44,713
Expenses 2025
$701,073

Program services were 79.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Street
150 WASHINGTON AVE STE 205

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

SEARCHLIGHT NEW MEXICO NEWS DELIVERS HIGH-IMPACT INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING TO INSPIRE NEW MEXICANS TO DEMAND ACTION ON SYSTEMIC PROBLEMS THAT PLAGUE NEW MEXICO.

  • IN AUGUST 2025 SEARCHLIGHT'S BOARD OF DIRECTORS ELECTED TO WIND UP ITS OPERATION AND DISTRIBUTE ITS NET ASSETS TO A PUBLIC CHARITY, EFFECTING A CORPORATE DISSOLUTION AS REQUIRED BY ITS BYLAWS AND NEW MEXICO STATUTES. SEARCHLIGHT PERCEIVES ITS MISSION IS BEST CONTINUED BY TRANSFERRING ALL OF ITS REMAINING ASSETS, AND RELATED OBLIGATIONS TO NEW MEXICO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE BENEFIT AND USE OF THE FUND.NMF SERVES AS THE FISCAL AGENT FOR THE FUND. THE FUND IS A FISCALLY SPONSORED FUND OF THE NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION AND WAS FORMED AND ESTABLISHED WITH NMF IN 2024, THE FUND IS A PHILANTHROPIC INITIATIVE OF THE 175-YEAR-OLD SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN. IN ACCORDANCE WITH NMSA 1978, SECTION 53-08-48, SEARCHLIGHT HEREBY ELECTS TO TRANSFER ITS NET ASSETS TO NMF, AND ON BEHALF OF THE FUND.

    Expenses $560,149 · Grants $15,469

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Martin Kaiser

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Raymond Rivera

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Daniel Yohalem

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sylvia Ramos Cruz

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Rick Rodriguez

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kristina Melchor

    VICE-PRESIDE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Don Templin

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Elizabeth Allen Heller

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rick Herrman

    EX.DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $11,000
    From this org
    $11,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $44,713
    Expenses
    $701,073
    Contributions
    $43,738
    Grants paid
    $15,469
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $898,368
    Expenses
    $930,452
    Contributions
    $888,706
    Grants paid
    $500
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $937,792
    Expenses
    $1,189,718
    Contributions
    $932,264
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,180,697
    Expenses
    $1,028,499
    Contributions
    $1,173,830
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,080,972
    Expenses
    $1,052,847
    Assets (EOY)
    $846,961

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,008,162
    Expenses
    $801,792
    Assets (EOY)
    $905,131

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $827,328
    Expenses
    $718,431
    Assets (EOY)
    $572,098

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,079,093
    Expenses
    $654,153
    Assets (EOY)
    $483,945

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,079,093
    Expenses
    $654,153
    Assets (EOY)
    $483,945

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,079,093
    Expenses
    $654,153
    Assets (EOY)
    $483,945

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

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Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Not present in the most recent drop.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.