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Cultural Survival Inc

Cultural survival advocates for indigenous people's rights and supports indigenous communities' self-determination, cultures and political resilience, since 1972.

$3.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$712k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.5MEnvironment$1.0MEducation$1.0MInternational$48kCrime & Legal$20kFood & Nutrition$8kHuman Services$6kHealth$5k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $1,765,700, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,346,412 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,580,712 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.7M
$500,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Ekvnv Yefolecvlke: $4k → 18%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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ME
NY
MA
OR
NV
SD
PA
CA
CO
AZ
NM
DC
HI
AL

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.

South America$485k · 31% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: TRAINING AND EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS · FELLOWSHIPS

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$272k · 17% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: TRAINING AND EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS

North America (Canada and Mexico)$268k · 17% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: TRAINING AND EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS

Sub-Saharan Africa$196k · 13% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: TRAINING AND EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS · FELLOWSHIPS

Central America and the Caribbean$189k · 12% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: TRAINING AND EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS · FELLOWSHIPS

South Asia$111k · 7% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: TRAINING AND EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS · FELLOWSHIPS

East Asia and the Pacific$25k · 2% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: TRAINING AND EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS · FELLOWSHIPS

Russia and Neighboring States$22k · 1% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: TRAINING AND EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS

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. 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.5M · 4 repeat orgs$148k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +27% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
16

Total granted

$3.5M
$129k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+27%

Still filing today

75%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesPublic BenefitInternationalCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • FP
    FIRST PEOPLES WORLDWIDE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.4M
  • II
    International Indigenous Fund For Development and Solidarity Batani
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.0M · revenue ×12 · 47% of their budget
  • E
    Earthworks
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.0M · revenue -3%

Funded once

  • RM
    RED MOUNTAIN STUDY GROUP
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • OE
    ONE EARTH PHILANTHROPY
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -1%
  • NV
    NATIVE VILLAGE OF AMBER TRADITIONAL COUNCIL
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
Intertribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council
—
4
Ratiwennahawi Inc

Fund Indigenous Nations Languate, Culture and Restoration Plans

Education
5
Nia Tero Foundation

Nia tero works alongside indigenous peoples to secure their guardianship of vital ecosystems. indigenous peoples are guardians of earth.(see schedule o)

Environment
6
International Indian Treaty Council Inc

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.

Civil Rights
7
Center for World Indigenous Studies

Activist scholars advancing the right of indigenous peoples worldwide

International
8
Huya Aniwa

The organization's mission is to revitalize and preserve cultural heritage and sacred land.

Arts & Culture
9
Indigenous Just Transition

Empowering Indigenous communities

Environment
10
Matriarch Ways Inc

Our work is about action, restoration, and strengthening our communities. From cultural resurgence and mutual aid to advocacy and education, we create spaces where Indigenous ways of knowing are honored and success is defined by our…

Human Services
11
Indigenous Peoples Council for Marine Mammals

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.

Environment
12
Na'ah Illahee Fund

Naah Illahee Fund is an Indigenous-led organization rooted in the Northwest region of Turtle Island. Our mission is to catalyze the ongoing regeneration of Indigenous communities through participatory grantmaking, capacity building, and…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Norton Bay Inter-Tribal Watershed Council; 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.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 22 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
6/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIRST PEOPLES WORLDWIDE INC: $1,424,000 · OtherFIRST PEOPLES WORLDWIDE INC+12 more: $89,000 · Other+12 moreInternational Indigenous Fund For Development and Solidarity Batani: $1,038,900 · InternationalInternational Indigenous Fund Fo…Earthworks: $1,000,000 · Public BenefitEarthworksONE EARTH PHILANTHROPY: $20,000 · EnvironmentNVN-NES-A LAND TRUST: $7,000 · EnvironmentWHYHUNGER INC: $8,000 · Arts & CultureNew Mexico In Depth Inc: $6,000 · Arts & CultureIndigenous Peoples Day Philly Inc: $6,000 · Arts & CultureEAST BAY SANCTUARY COVENANT: $14,000 · Community ImprovementNORTON BAY INTER-TRIBAL WATERSHED COUNCIL: $12,000 · Animals
Other$1,513,000International$1,038,900Public Benefit$1,000,000Environment$27,000Arts & Culture$20,000Community Improvement$14,000Animals$12,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetInternational Indigenous Fund For Development and Solidarity Batani: $1,038,900 over 4y, 47% of budgetEarthworks: $1,000,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetONE EARTH PHILANTHROPY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEAST BAY SANCTUARY COVENANT: $14,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNORTON BAY INTER-TRIBAL WATERSHED COUNCIL: $12,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetWHYHUNGER INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew Mexico In Depth Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetIndigenous Peoples Day Philly Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetMIXTECO INDIGENA COMMUNITY ORGANIZING PROJECT: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALASKA NATIVE TRIBAL HEALTH CONSORTIUM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWopanaak Language and Cultural Weetyoo Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetEKVNV YEFOLECVLKE: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

First Nations Develop…Rockefeller Philanthr…Seventh Generation Fu…Silicon Valley Commun…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
First Nations Development InstituteCO17.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Cultural Survival Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cultural Survival Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 22 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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