New Mexico State Library Foundation

New Mexico State Library Foundation, a tax-exempt nonprofit based in Corrales, New Mexico, is a federal grant recipient operating exclusively under the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grants program and the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program. The Foundation does not hold federal contracts or contract vehicles; all three of its recent federal awards are project grants from IMLS.

The Foundation's grant work focuses on library-led economic development and community wellbeing programming. The most recent award, a $512,640 National Leadership Grants project grant issued September 1, 2026, funds the design and pilot of a scalable national platform to identify, document, and disseminate library-led programs supporting small business development, workforce pathways, financial literacy, and technology skills. The Foundation partners with Creative Startups, DreamSpring, and the Association for Rural and Small Libraries to develop program models, toolkits, and a resource-sharing platform, with work scheduled through February 29, 2028. A prior $249,877 two-year Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian project grant (awarded August 2022, completed July 2024) built a national network of entrepreneurship librarians across five library systems and trained librarians to support small businesses and entrepreneurs in underserved populations; deliverables included a how-to guide enabling libraries to function as entrepreneurial hubs. A November 2021 project grant ($812 thousand combined across all awards) supported community-based social wellbeing projects in fifteen rural New Mexico libraries, with mentoring, guidance, and seed grants to address post-pandemic social connection and resilience needs.

All three awards are tied to a single customer agency — IMLS — with no subcontract or sub-recipient relationships recorded. One award completes within the next twenty-four months, creating a recompete opportunity in that window.