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UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTHWEST

EIN 85-0164940 HOBBS, NM

Revenue 2024
$21,824,198
Expenses 2024
$18,352,001

Program services were 75.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B420
Classification
2000
Street
6610 N LOVINGTON HWY

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).

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.

  • DR ELAINE SENA CORTEZ

    BOARD MEMBER / ADJUNCT PROFESSOR

    Total calculated
    $9,214
    From this org
    $9,214
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • LEE ROBERSON

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • DAVID SHAW

    VICE-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BRAD CARESS

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KEN BROMLEY

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CLIFF BRUNSON

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LAURA CASTILLO ESQ

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • HEATHER EVANS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LEANNE GANDY

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DR GEORGE KLEIN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHAEL NEWELL ESQ

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RICHARD SANCHEZ

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CONNIE SEVIER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BOBBY SHAW

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BRIAN SNIDER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SAMUEL S SPENCER JR

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • LIZABETH WHITE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GARY EIDSON

    BOARD MEMBER (PART YEAR)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KRISTI GOODWIN

    BOARD MEMBER (PART YEAR)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JAMES LACKEY

    BOARD MEMBER (PART YEAR)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DR RYAN TIPTON

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $330,793
    From this org
    $312,715
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $18,078
    Hours/week
    40 + 1 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $301,881
    Bonus
    $10,834
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $6,298
    Nontaxable benefits
    $11,780
    Filer's total
    $330,793

  • DR PAULA SMITH

    EVP/CFO/TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $167,212
    From this org
    $160,152
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,060
    Hours/week
    50 + 1 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $154,231
    Bonus
    $5,921
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $3,203
    Nontaxable benefits
    $3,857
    Filer's total
    $167,212

  • DR BRIANNA LOPEZ

    CHIEF ACADEMIC OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $225,202
    From this org
    $209,689
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,513
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $201,458
    Bonus
    $8,231
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $4,238
    Nontaxable benefits
    $11,275
    Filer's total
    $225,202

  • DR KEISHA TIPTON

    DEAN/FACULTY

    Total calculated
    $165,609
    From this org
    $146,155
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $19,454
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $140,146
    Bonus
    $6,009
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $3,036
    Nontaxable benefits
    $16,418
    Filer's total
    $165,609

  • STEVE APPEL

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $132,842
    From this org
    $120,665
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,177
    Hours/week
    50

The first 25 listed. 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 — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $21,824,198
    Expenses
    $18,352,001
    Contributions
    $1,426,890
    Grants paid
    $4,016,687
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $17,490,677
    Expenses
    $17,687,055
    Contributions
    $1,263,484
    Grants paid
    $4,302,775
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $17,030,000
    Expenses
    $16,554,579
    Contributions
    $1,673,630
    Grants paid
    $4,371,696

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.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

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 10 September 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.