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Collective Heritage Institute

To disseminate environmental solutions to educate, inspire, and equip people toward effective action, to develop and spread model economic strategies that conserve biological and cultural diversity, and to promote understanding of the relationship between humans and nature.

$113k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Environment$80kHuman Services$53kInternational$16kPublic Safety & Disaster$12kCommunity Improvement$6kFood & Nutrition$6kCrime & Legal$6k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $61,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $112,721 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $51,221 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTER FOR DEMOCRATIC & ENVIRON RIGHTS$40,000
GLOBAL EXCHANGE$10,000
MEADOWS LIVINGSTONE SCHOOL$6,000
7 DIRECTIONS OF SERVICE$5,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–22, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 24%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE HOPI FOUNDATION: $5k → 26%REZ REFUGE: $21k → 28%FREEDOM LODGE: $16k → 14%REZ REFUGE: $16k → 28%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Indigenous Women Rising Indigeous Women Rising
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2
The Foundation for Indigenous Education Leadership Development
Education
3
Redes Ayudas Inc
International
4
International Indigenous Fund for Development and Solidarity Batani
International
5
Mesoamerican Research Foundation
Social Science
6
Center for World Indigenous Studies

Activist scholars advancing the right of indigenous peoples worldwide

International
7
Rights and Resources Institute Inc

Rri's mission is to support local communities and indigenous peoples' struggles against poverty and marginalization by promoting greater global commitment and action towards policy, market, and legal reforms that secure their rights to…

Environment
8
Global Voice
—
9
Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment
10
Great Circle Alliance

The Great Circle Alliance is an independent nonprofit organization with the goal of raising awareness and encouraging contemporary Native voices artists, scholars, archeologists, and local communities bringing human presence back into what…

Arts & Culture
11
Human Rights Action Center

Promotion of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and raising awareness regarding the importance of that document.

Civil Rights
12
Mundo Maya Foundation

To empower Latino indigenous immigrant communities through education, civic and cultural engagement and econimic development

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heart of America Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Meadows-Livingstone School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 10 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
2/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CENTER FOR DEMOCRATIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS: $80,000 · EnvironmentTHE CENTER FOR DEMOCRATIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTSREZ REFUGE MINISTRIES INC: $37,199 · Human ServicesREZ REFUGE MINISTRIES INCFREEDOM LODGE: $16,000 · Human ServicesFREEDOM LODGETHE HOPI FOUNDATION LOMASUMI'NANGWTUKWSIWMANI: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOPI FOUNDATION LOMASUMI'NANGWTUK…GLOBAL EXCHANGE: $10,000 · InternationalGLOBAL EXC…RED WIND COUNCILS INC: $6,025 · InternationalRED WIND C…CHEMEHUEVI INDIAN TRIBE: $6,500 · Other7 DIRECTIONS OF SERVICE INC: $5,500 · OtherMEADOWS-LIVINGSTONE SCHOOL: $6,000 · EducationHEART OF AMERICA FOUNDATION: $6,000 · Community Improvement
Environment$80,000Human Services$58,199International$16,025Other$12,000Education$6,000Community Improvement$6,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CENTER FOR DEMOCRATIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS: $80,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetREZ REFUGE MINISTRIES INC: $37,199 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetFREEDOM LODGE: $16,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetGLOBAL EXCHANGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRED WIND COUNCILS INC: $6,025 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetMEADOWS-LIVINGSTONE SCHOOL: $6,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetHEART OF AMERICA FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOPI FOUNDATION LOMASUMI'NANGWTUKWSIWMANI: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Collective Heritage Institute funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Collective Heritage Institute. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Collective Heritage Institute?

    Find your warmest path to Collective Heritage Institute through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 10 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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