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AMIGOS BRAVOS INC

EIN 85-0363268 TAOS, NM

Revenue 2024
$1,318,334
Expenses 2024
$1,519,843

Program services were 84.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
2000
Street
PO BOX 238

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 · 2024

Mission

Amigos Bravos is a river protection and restoration advocacy organization guided by social justice principles, and working to preserve the ecological and cultural integrity of the Rio Grande watershed. The work is accomplished through public outreach and education, technical and capacity-building support, and on-the-ground restoration initiatives.The mission of Amigos Bravos is:To return New Mexicos rivers and the Rio Grande watershed to drinkable quality wherever possible, and to contact quality everywhere elseTo see that natural flows are maintained and where those flows have been disrupted by human intervention, to see that they are regulated to protect and reclaim the river ecosystem by approximating natural flowsTo preserve and restore the native riparian and riverine biodiversityTo support the environmentally-sound, sustainable traditional ways of life of indigenous culturesTo ensure that environmental justice and social justice go hand-in-hand

Activities or mission (Part I)

To protect & restore the waters of New Mexico.

  • Restoring watershed health: Healthy watersheds are critical to the health and wellbeing of all New Mexicans people, plants, and animals. Amigos Bravos works with volunteers and community organizations to restore the natural hydrology and resiliency of wetlands, forests, high mountain meadows and aquatic ecosystems. Amigos Bravos also works to develop proactive policies that counter impacts from climate change-driven drought and large storm events. In addition, Amigos Bravos works to protect special places and restore native aquatic species (including Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout and River Otters) and their habitats.

    Expenses $860,677

  • Build a river protection movement: Through this program area Amigos Bravos is building the capacity of individuals and communities to protect waters in their own backyards by providing technical assistance, workshops and trainings. Moreover, through the arts and activism initiative, Amigos Bravos is creating opportunities to positively influence people's relationship to water.

    Expenses $319,314

  • Holding polluters accountable: Key to protecting New Mexicos waters for future generations is holding polluters and government agencies accountable for stopping water contamination and the cleanup of hazardous waste. Current areas of concern to Amigos Bravos include impacts from the mining industry, Los Alamos National Laboratory, municipal and industrial storm water discharges, concentrated dairy farms, and the oil and gas industry.

    Expenses $99,826

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Joseph Zupan

    Exec Director

    Total calculated
    $102,447
    From this org
    $102,447
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Rachel Conn

    Deputy Director

    Total calculated
    $96,610
    From this org
    $96,610
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Francisco Guevara

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Peggy Nelson

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Liliana Castillo

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Maria Najera

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Nicola Ulibarri

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dan Roper

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Chris Smith

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,318,334
    Expenses
    $1,519,843
    Contributions
    $900,462
    Grants paid
    $10,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $830,023
    Expenses
    $1,069,595
    Contributions
    $594,176
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,645,300
    Expenses
    $1,042,470
    Contributions
    $1,315,799
    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
    $768,334
    Expenses
    $624,336
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,128,111

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,697,167
    Expenses
    $655,523
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,704,060

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $710,048
    Expenses
    $721,646
    Assets (EOY)
    $548,259

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $693,486
    Expenses
    $693,353
    Assets (EOY)
    $405,596

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $650,200
    Expenses
    $650,853
    Assets (EOY)
    $356,663

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $430,990
    Expenses
    $487,462
    Assets (EOY)
    $368,464

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

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

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

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.