· Public charity
Cultural Survival Inc
Cultural survival advocates for indigenous people's rights and supports indigenous communities' self-determination, cultures and political resilience, since 1972.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $1,765,700 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,346,412 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,580,712 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST PEOPLE WORLDWIDE | $712,000 |
| BATANI FOUNDATION | $526,700 |
| EARTHWORKS | $500,000 |
| NORTON BAY WATERSHED COUNCIL | $12,000 |
| EAST BAY SANCTUARY COVENANT | $8,000 |
| NVN-NES-A LAND TRUST | $7,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $1.6M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 8 regions, $1.4M to organizations and $212k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: TRAINING AND EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS · FELLOWSHIPS
Stated purpose: TRAINING AND EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS
Stated purpose: TRAINING AND EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS
Stated purpose: TRAINING AND EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS · FELLOWSHIPS
Stated purpose: TRAINING AND EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS · FELLOWSHIPS
Stated purpose: TRAINING AND EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS · FELLOWSHIPS
Stated purpose: TRAINING AND EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS · FELLOWSHIPS
Stated purpose: TRAINING AND EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- FPFIRST PEOPLES WORLDWIDE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $1.4M
- IIInternational Indigenous Fund For Development and Solidarity Batani4× · 2021–2024 · $1.0M · revenue ×12 · 47% of their budget
- EEarthworks2× · 2023–2024 · $1.0M · revenue -3%
Funded once
- RMRED MOUNTAIN STUDY GROUPone grant, 2023 · $20k
- OEONE EARTH PHILANTHROPYone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -1%
- NVNATIVE VILLAGE OF AMBER TRADITIONAL COUNCILone grant, 2023 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The International Indian Treaty Council (IITC) is an organization of Indigenous Peoples working for self-determination and the recognition and protection of human rights, treaties, traditional cultures, and sacred lands and waters.
The Council is a coalition of Tribal marine mammal commissions/councils and other Native organizations formed for the purpose of identifying and addressing marine mammal issues of common concern.
Activist scholars advancing the right of indigenous peoples worldwide
Fund Indigenous Nations Languate, Culture and Restoration Plans
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Empowering Indigenous communities
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is First Peoples Worldwide Inc and the most unlike its peers is International Indigenous Fund for Development and Solidarity Batani. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 22 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FIRST PEOPLES WORLDWIDE INC ↗
- Who funds International Indigenous Fund For Development and Solidarity Batani ↗
- Who funds Earthworks ↗
- Who funds ONE EARTH PHILANTHROPY ↗
- Who funds EAST BAY SANCTUARY COVENANT ↗
- Who funds NORTON BAY INTER-TRIBAL WATERSHED COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds WHYHUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds New Mexico In Depth Inc ↗
- Who funds Indigenous Peoples Day Philly Inc ↗
- Who funds MIXTECO INDIGENA COMMUNITY ORGANIZING PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ALASKA NATIVE TRIBAL HEALTH CONSORTIUM ↗
- Who funds Wopanaak Language and Cultural Weetyoo Inc ↗
- Who funds EKVNV YEFOLECVLKE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: First Nations Development Institute · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Cultural Survival Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.