GREATER ARTESIA FOUNDATION

As filed

Subsection

03

Classification

1000

Street

PO BOX 1344

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Mission and programs · 2024

• City of Artesia, NM- Artesia Police Department Modular Vehicle Barrier System -Greater Artesia Foundation partnered with the City of Artesia & Artesia Police Department to purchase a modular vehicle barrier system to enhance public safety during city-hosted events. This system will be used to protect attendees from potential risks, ensure effective traffic management, and allow designated event areas to be securely closed to vehicles. This initiative supports the organization's mission to promote the well-being and safety of the Artesia community and its residents.

  Expenses $404,996 · Grants $404,996

• PACKS OF LOVE - Packs provides sacks of easy to prepare foods weekly on Fridays to Artesia, New Mexico school kids whose only meals are those provided at school and therefore need additional assistance during the Artesia Public School calendar year. The students are recommended to the program by school counselors. There was an average of 200 students per week which is approximately 5% of Artesia Public Schools. Packs of Love also provides food bags and meat vouchers to the families of participants at Thanksgiving and Christmas. Students received Christmas gifts that included blankets, gingerbread houses, custom water bottles, custom duffle bags and other holiday themed items. Packs of Love has an average of 20 volunteers per week.

  Expenses $60,877

• SENIOR SALUTE- 168 (78%) of the graduating Artesia High School Seniors and 83 of their guests participated in multiple activities until 4:30 a.m. of the morning following their graduation. This indoor lock-in event was designed to keep graduates safe on the night of their high school graduation, a night that has become known as fraught with tragedy. This program began in 1995 and the tradition has continued for the class of 2025. There were 60 adult volunteers who helped with preparation prior to the event and served through the night as well. There were casino type games, dancing, Minute-to-Win-It and several sports available, and seniors were awarded tickets from the games that they were able to cash in toward prize raffles throughout the night. The prizes were donated by local merchants. Seniors staying until the morning were awarded a cash prize of approximately $165 each as an incentive to stay at the event and stay safe.

  Expenses $33,894 · Grants $27,690

• MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIPS - GAF administers the funds for four scholarship programs. For fiscal year ended August 31, 2025, 5 southeast New Mexico high school graduates received scholarship payments from these funds. Each scholarship fund has a volunteer review committee that includes members of the school staff. These committees choose the recipients based on pre-set criteria created when the scholarship was funded. Students must provide their acceptance letter and college class schedule initially and their grades for scholarships paid after their first semester. Scholarship checks are paid to and mailed directly to the college/university.

  Expenses $5,750 · Grants $5,750

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  Expenses $4,147 · Grants $1,725

• MY NEIGHBORHOOD - Continues to improve, maintain and operate the Community Garden located on City of Artesia property at 911 Dallas Street in Artesia, NM. This project hopes to influence and improve a challenged neighborhood. My Neighborhood is partnering with the Artesia Garden Club to manage individual plots while offering plant care tips as they spend a significant amount of time at the garden. The Artesia Garden Club has oversight over the public areas of the garden in which they tend to the rose garden, border beds and alleyway. The garden contains multiple individual planter boxes for use by individuals, families, groups, clubs, schools and other organizations. There is a community area in the garden in which anyone interested in beautifying the area can come contribute. The greenhouse allows users to begin their garden from seed to infant plants before they are transitioned to a their home or garden plot. New projects this year included a mini library that was installed by the Lion's Club Leos. Other civic groups such as the Boy & Girl Scouts, Chase Foundation Scholarship recipients, Artesia High School Honor Society have provided service work at the garden.

  Expenses $15,132

• WOMEN FOR A BETTER ARTESIA - The WFBA committee serves Artesia, NM by providing educational and volunteer opportunities aimed at enhancing quality of life. Dedicated to community improvement, the organization hosts quarterly luncheons and various events throughout the year. The organization hosted the second annual Women of Impact event to honor outstanding women in the local community across multiple categories, including education, public service, entrepreneurship, athletics, arts and creativity, oil and gas, healthcare, nonprofit leadership, and Woman of the Year. The event celebrated achievements, fostered community recognition, and supported the organization's mission to highlight and empower women making a meaningful impact in Artesia.

  Expenses $18,786 · Grants $1,000

• ARTESIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS book vending machines - Four local elementary schools were reimbursed for the purchase of book vending machines. These machines function like traditional vending machines but dispense books, encouraging literacy and rewarding positive student behavior. Each school selects age-appropriate books that students can earn through academic achievement or good citizenship. This initiative promotes reading, supports student development, and aligns with the organization's mission to enhance educational opportunities for Artesia's youth.

  Expenses $17,960

• SUMMER MEAL PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN - During the summer of 2024, Greater Artesia Foundation coordinated a community partnership to provide lunches to children after learning the Artesia Public School system was unable to operate its usual summer meal program due to construction. Working with other nonprofit organizations such as Eddy County United Way, local businesses, and the local hospital, meals were prepared and distributed at the Artesia Recreation Center on weekdays throughout the summer until school resumed in August. This initiative ensured that children in the community continued to receive nutritious meals and supports the organization's mission to enhance the well-being of Artesia residents.

  Expenses $12,000

• ARTESIA PUBLIC LIBRARY - provides both the physical and virtual library spaces. They offer various programs such as the Summer Reading Program, book clubs, arts & crafts and other library services such as Genealogy research and newspaper archives. A donation was provided from designated funds for the Libraries as Launchpads program. The library purchased new podiums for their conference rooms and a new Presentation System that includes interactive digital ePosters, interactive 4k displays, and multiple media players that are installed by a technician. This new equipment will be used in conference rooms for meetings, library announcements, and during specific programming offered by the library.

  Expenses $23,500

As filed on the 2024 return. The first 10 program lines listed; the rest are in the source return and the API. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

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.

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

  $534,160

  Expenses

  $602,164

  Contributions

  $527,274

  Grants paid

  $444,461

• 2023

  Revenue

  $168,678

  Expenses

  $405,731

  Contributions

  $148,217

  Grants paid

  $323,700

• 2022

  Revenue

  $209,111

  Expenses

  $338,891

  Contributions

  $191,067

  Grants paid

  $246,936

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

  $100,027

  Expenses

  $133,402

  Assets (EOY)

  $743,279

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $208,354

  Expenses

  $100,351

  Assets (EOY)

  $776,654

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $668,643

  Expenses

  $526,541

  Assets (EOY)

  $668,651

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

• City of Artesia

  $404,996

  2024 · City of Artesia, NM- Artesia Police Department Modular Vehicle Barrier System -Greater Artesia Foundation partnered with the City of Artesia & Artesia Police Department to purchase a modular vehicle barrier system to enhance public safety during city-hosted events. This system will be used to protect attendees from potential risks, ensure effective traffic management, and allow designated event areas to be securely closed to vehicles. This initiative supports the organization's mission to promote the well-being and safety of the Artesia community and its residents.

• City of Champions Inc

  $251,000

  2023 · Funds were given to complete the construction of a restroom facility at the soccer/football complex at Jaycee Park that is owned by the City of Artesia, New Mexico.

• City of Champions Inc

  $160,411

  2022 · Funds were given to complete the construction of a restroom facility at the soccer/football complex at Jaycee Park that is owned by the City of Artesia, NM.

• Artesia MainStreet Inc

  $27,500

  2022 · Artesia Arts & Cultural District Downtown Mural Program

• Artesia Public Library

  $11,848

  2022 · Libraries as Launchpads

• Lake Arthur Municipal Schools

  $10,000

  2023 · The community garden project included design, development and construction by a landscape architect. An irrigation plan for the school was developed to connect an existing well and the design of the garden was completed.

• Artesia Public Schools fbo Marcos Morillon Memorial Scholarship

  $6,777

  2022 · Transfer administration of memorial scholarship from Greater Artesia Foundation to Artesia Public Schools

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Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

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