How do we fund our work?
Searchlight New Mexico is funded by individual donors and grants. We list all of our donors on our website to ensure transparency and accountability. To make a donation or learn more about giving, click here.
Foundation and Institutional Donors
- Eric Oppenheimer Family Foundation
- New Mexico Local News Fund
- PrairieFire Foundation
- Stuart M. Bluestone Charitable Fund
- Joseph L. Fisher Foundation Inc.
- Con Alma Health Foundation
- The Gumbo Foundation
- Local News Hub
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Santa Fe Community Foundation
- Shaggy Peak Fund, Santa Fe Community Foundation
- New Mexico Community Foundation
- The Thornburg Foundation
- News Revenue Hub
- Anonymous Fund
Our Individual Supporters
- David B Chester
- Kathy Wooten
- Carol Rose
- Christopher Bauman
- Christine Salem
- Evan Mackinder
- Megan Boudreau
- Thara Lechuga
- Bill Tiwald
- Martin Stellar
- John Moulton
- Lynn Bickley
- Ralph Wrons
- Alaina Zachary
- Glenn Silber
- Larry Ross
- Tish Bowling
- Kevin Reilly
- Judith Yarbrough
- Judy Cruell
- Mary Parsaca
- John Thayer
- Bindi Gandhi
- Ed Epping
- Linda Duke
- Becky Smith
- Amy Kaplan
- Deborah Bock
- Katherin Dockerill
- Laura and Tito Meyer
- Rachel Finkelstein
- Linda Brown
- Jan Swaney
- Sharon Amastae
- LAURA LAKIN
- Ruel Walker
- Carole Garland
- Philip Crump
- Kristin Kuhlmann
- Peter Gillespie
- Charlee Galbreath
- Robin Santa-Teresa
- Karen Bonime
- Constance Mussells
- Andrew Braman
- Paul Deason
- Benno Friedman
- timothy schimberg
- Patty Karlovitz
- Philp Porter
- Tina Cordova
- Mary B Doidge
- danis kelly
- Susan Johnson
- Allen Bohnert
- Nina Simons
- Marcia Williams
- Paul Harms
- Elizabeth Foree
- Shelley Robinson
- James Sartoris
- Vickie Gabin
- Cyrus Moore
- Virginia Scharff
- Barry Ramo
- Barbara Verble
- Thomas Dowd
- Karen Muncy
- Lisa Wooldridge
- Elizabeth Betsy Martinez
- Melissa Howard
- Nancy Harbert
- Doe Mayer
- S. Burney Mangan-Bryson
- Carol Miraben
- Louise Rinn
- Trinity Lescallett
- James Padilla
- Sarah Bennett
- Holly Beaumont
- Marcos Paz
- Judy Brown
- Karen Hokom
- Bobbie Elliott
- Susan Gallaher
- Thomas Folsom Beckner III
- Don Templin
- Noor-un-nisa Touchon
- Andrea Scott
- Robin Gavin
- Annmarie Mclaughlin
- Erika Pirotte
- Jeff Wilson
- Bill Wingate
- Claire Crain
- Joshua Tripp
- John Arango
- Debra Hughes
- Kyla Thompson
- Elaine Watson
- Michael Marcotte
- Elmer Jackson
- Gail Stewart
- Charles M Smith
- Timothy Mitchell
- Kendal and Ken Gladish
- William Riker
- Vanda Marlow
- Mary-Charlotte Domandi
- Richard Scheinin
- Louisa Barkalow
- Debora Boldt
- Elizabeth West
- Patricia Rosenberg
- Betty Baxter
- Janis Williams
- George Leitner
- Robert Glick
- George Henderson
- Allen Olson
- Kathleen Dexter
- Bonnie Korman
- Bill Page
- James C Faris
- Kathleen Economy
- Julie Hinzman
- Teresa Valderrama
- Nancy Dahl
- MJ Manford
- William Tallman
- Robbyne Jones
- Sayrah Namaste
- Patrick Lohmann
- Margaret Roberts
- Sallie Bingham
- Norm Gaume
- Adam Wasserman
- Gary Van Luchene
- Julie Eames
- Nancy Singham
- Donald Meaders
- Patricia Lopez
- Stephen Gaber
- Victoria Shepard
- Randal whittington
- Thomas Hester
- Susan Hutchinson
- Timothy Welch
- James Phillips
- Ray Rivera
- Margaret Wood
- Mark Berndt
- Sara Sandlin
- Kat Duff
- Lucy Lippard
- Leslie Lakind
- Daniel Yohalem
- Lynn McKelvey
- Tom Johnson
- Susan McLendon
- Adrian VanderHave
- Neal Devitt
- Carol Sarath
- Meridel Rubenstein
- Ryan Dean
- Vennie Eline White
- Cathryn Pokorny
- George Davis
- Timothy Mercer
- Sylvia Ramos Cruz
- David Biggs
- Margaret and Keith Clemson
- Robert LaVallee
- William M Kaiser
- Beverly Garcia
- John Boyd
- Lucia Darlach
- Merilee Dannemann
- Margo Milleret
- Linda Gies
- D. M. Sanford
- John Robertson
- Benjamin Landgraf
- Don Usner
- Elizabeth Wald
- Charles Lehman
- Amelia Bellows
- Barbara Shapiro
- Pattie Hartman
- T Spencer Wright
- Edward Gale
- Joan Fenicle
- Nan Newton
- Scott Swearingen
- Jennifer Holmes
- Sylviana Schanefelt
- Reed Anderson
- Elizabeth Hardin-Burrola
- Michael Motley
- KIm Zamarin
- Alex Amend
- ruth Mueller
- Eleanor Leonard
- Nalini Ayya
- Devin Zatorski
- George Henderson
- Hugh Wilson
- Robert Guenther
- Maggie Schmitt
- Nancy Lewis
- Ivan White
- Lari Tiller Howell
- Cameron Weber
- Margaret MacDonald
- BJ Diamond
- michael schulte
- Roy Montibon
- Johanna Cooper
- Susan Tarman
- Philippa Howard
- Charlotte Lipson
- Larry Rayburn
- Bishnu Rauth
- Jamie Barr
- Ramona Gault
- Michael Jensen
- Carolyn Lake
- Carolyn Kastner
- MaryAlice Gillette
- Craig Campbell
- Suzanne Otter
- Ricann Bock
- Paul Parmentier
- Pamela Walker
- Cindy Pabst
- Cameron Duncan
- Catherine Oppenheimer
- James Harrington
- Barbara Chatterjee
- Nan Schwanfelder
- Joel K Swadesh
- Richard Goldsmith
- Keith Howell
- Judy Goldberg
- Joan Friedland
- April Gallegos
- Diane Karp
- Rachel Sams
- David Rivard
- Deborah Hall
- Yale Jones
- Theresa Duncan
- Doak Heyser
- Sanford & Mary Ellen Coon
- Arturo Madrid
- Kathryn Ceja
- Anne Martin
- Steve Kopelman
- Naomi Sandweiss
- John Wilks
- Kathleen Stanton
- Carrie Walker
- Paul Weinbaum
- Rob Mangold
- Susan H Bell
- Sayoko Morioka Benallie
- Flora Yerxa
- Mary Hale
- Sarah Nelson
- William Boyson
- Molly Hollenbach
- Bob Steinberg
- James Brown
- Debra Preusch
- JoAnn and Robert Balzer
- Bill Roth
- Brenda Findley
- Lisa Houston
- Andrea Bryan
- Deborah S Holloway
- Ruth Shy
- Jeffrey Archuleta
- Brad Lewis
- Ed Rowell
- Al Webster
- Barbara Grothus
- Kate Kane
- Taylor Spence
- Jill Heppenheimer
- Susan Bortz
- Ann Hamilton
- Donna Smith
- Michael Spilde
- Aspen Coriz-Romero
- Amanda Clearwater
- Sasha Pyle
- Russel Stolins
- Tracy Hansen
- Jan Mitchell
- John Adams Ingram
- Linda Mawhorter
- James Clay Harris
- Richard Albury
- Nancy Tucker
- GARY BERG
- Nirmal Iyengar
- Richard Warren
- Judith Pasich
- Virginia Miller
- Richard & Pam Edson
- Amy Lewis
- Francesca Estevez
- Sue Forster-Cox
- Scott Allocco
- Carl Gilmore
- Kathleen Cody
- William Slattery
- Sara Thorp
- William Summers, M.D.
- Kevin Williams
- Thomas Williams
- Susan Beck
- Mary Layne
- Ross and Kristin Ulibarri
- Patricia Hodapp
- Candace Frostenson
- Marianne Smith
- Michael Wilson
- James Nelson
- Jonann Lucy
- David Gilliam
- robert adams
- Chris Balut
- Sara Samani
- Laurel Savino
- Donald Brockell
- Maricruz Merino
- Monica OKeefe
- Fred hanselmann
- Wenda Trevathan
- Louise Stiver
- Mary Walker
- James Theiler
- Kat Sherrell
- Virginianna Constantz
- Annie Andreoni
- Eric Eric
- Keon Ahghar
- Charles Clayton
- Corbin Shouse
- G Sterling Zinsmeyer
- Sari Stein
- Margaret O Donnell
- Tomas Jaehn
- Sarah Minor-Schaeuble
- Mikaela Rodenbaugh
- Mikaela Rodenbaugh
- Ratna Divya Navabhaktula
- Jean Miele
- Kathryn Ugoretz
- Susan J Wolfe
- John Morris
- David Scarborough
- Kay Enfield
- Michael Rhoderick
- deborah mersky
- Betsy Shillinglaw
- Ben Daitz
- Janis Williams
- Maggie Hart Stebbins
- Esther Jamison
- Steve Bardwell
- Suzanne Schmidt
- Cassandra Jacobs
- Eduardo Torres
- Christopher Hulliger
- David Douglas
- Mike McDermott
- Jay Choate
- Eckhart Spalding
- Lisa Gray Fisher
- Jerry Salkowe
- Linda Siegle
- kenny ausubel
- Kathleen Wichman
- keith tipton
- Kristina Nethaway
- Acacia Shouse
- Rosa C Blevins
- Daniel Matthews
- Linda Prince
- John Wester
- Mary Elder
- Bernice Gutierrez
- Susanne Hoffman-Dooley
- M Bybee
- Marilyn Wright
- Cynthia Sperry
- Denise Sessions
- M Checkwicz
- Pam Weinzapfel
- Bob Carroll
- Peter Ossorio
- Jean Darling
- Lynn Larsen
- Kathryn Schmidt
- Julia Sclafani
- Margaret Nes
- George Wenzel
- James Theiler
- Ted Williams
- Christopher Barr
- Mark Tiarks
- Mary Frei
- Nancy Plevin
- Bill Tiwald
- Martha Simonsen
- Jimmy Cobb
- Karen Wentworth
- Laureen Zunner
- Anonymous
- Norton Kalishman
- Thomas Luebben
- William Tiwald
- Maureen Vosburgh
- Bettie Rushing
- Norm & Jane Gagne
- Ward McCartney
- Coletta Reid
- Josephine Griffin
- Carter Foy
- William deBuys
- Michael Smith
- Nancy Stanford
- Gail Grimes
- Warren Marr
- William Slattery
- Kenner Coon
- Ashley Fox
- Mary Hall
- Frank Chambers
- Patrick Dorsey
- Gayla Bechtol
- Karen LeComte
- Dottie Indyke
- Gregg Henry
- Susan Carter
- Greg Andrews
- Margaret Marti
- Thomas Jennings
- Philip Rosenberg
- A.T. & Cinda Cole
- Roman Garcia Jr.
- Anonymous
These represent donations from January 1, 2025 – December 31, 2025. We apologize in advance for any errors or omissions.