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Honor the Earth

HONOR THE EARTH is committed to protecting the lifeways and sovereignty of our indigenous relatives across mother earth.

$295k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Environment$1.0MEducation$623kFood & Nutrition$87kHuman Services$38kArts & Culture$36kCommunity Improvement$35kPublic Benefit$14kInternational$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 5 grants below total $68,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $295,045 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $227,045 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
$6,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PHOTOGRAPHERS WITHOUT BORDERS INC$40,000
DEFENDERS OF THE BLACK HILLS INC$10,000
NOOWUH KNOWLEDGE CENTER$6,000
ALASKA COMMUNITY ACTION ON TOXICS$6,000
KNIFE CHIEF BUFFALO NATION SOCIETY$6,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 24%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NATIVE AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT: $10k → 15%THE HOPI FOUNDATION: $7k → 26%KUKULU KUMUHANA O ANAHOLA: $7k → 9%COVENANT PATHWAYS: $8k → 32%KNIFE CHIEF BUFFALO NATION: $7k → 42%OLOHANA FOUNDATION: $10k → 15%KNIFE CHIEF BUFFALO NATION SOCIETY: $6k → 42%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

AK
MN
WI
MI
NY
OR
NV
SD
CA
CO
AZ
NM
DC
HI
TX

Grants abroad, by region — $41k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions, all to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

North America (Canada and Mexico)$27k · 65% · 3 people

Stated purpose: FELLOWSHIP AWARD AND CAPACITY SUPPORT

East Asia and the Pacific$14k · 35% · 1 person

Stated purpose: FELLOWSHIP AWARD

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 5 repeat orgs$346k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +181% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
31

Total granted

$1.6M
$284k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+181%
0%

Still filing today

80%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 9% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentInternationalPublic BenefitOther

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

  • A8
    AKIING 8TH FIRE
    5× · 2018–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +278% · 97% of their budget
  • WF
    WANDLER FAMILY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2023 · $157k · revenue +38%
  • RC
    Rogue Climate
    2× · 2019–2020 · $16k · revenue +125%

Funded once

  • CC
    CONGREGATIONS CARING FOR CREATION
    one grant, 2024 · $44k · revenue 0%
  • TT
    TEXAS TRIBAL BUFFALO PROJECTgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue ×23
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $15k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Indigenous Women Rising Indigeous Women Rising
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2
The Haiku Aina Permaculture Initiative
—
3
Native American Agriculture Fund
Food & Nutrition
4
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
5
Land Peace Foundation

The Land Peace Foundation is an Indigenous led educational organization that is dedicated to preserving the Indigenous way of life and cultivating strong Indigenous leadership. We are also deeply committed to stewarding responsible climate…

Arts & Culture
6
Native Healing Llc
Animals
7
Na Mamo o Kawa

to rehabilitate, curate, and steward the natural and cultural resources of Kawa to honor the past, benefit the present, and preserve for the future generations of Ka'u, the Island of Hawaii and all humankind.

Environment
8
International Indigenous Fund for Development and Solidarity Batani
International
9
The Foundation for Indigenous Education Leadership Development
Education
10
Womanshare Legacy

Womanshare Legacy is an educational, financial and cultural resource for women who may be facing challenges because of discrimination, lack of opportunities or scarcity of personal support. Womanshare Legacy works locally with women,…

Human Services
11
Honor the Earth

Honor the earth is committed to protecting the lifeways and sovereignty of our indigenous relatives across mother earth. we do this by investing in our communities and a new generation of organizers through campaigns, research, training,…

Environment
12
Huya Aniwa

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

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indian Country Grassroots Support and the most unlike its peers is Wandler Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 12 years old; the field is 20. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%0%<5yr12%30%5–10yr20%39%10–20yr17%22%20–35yr16%9%35–55yr18%0%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%0%<5yr12%85%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr17%5%20–35yr16%1%35–55yr18%0%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/33
the rest of the field
10%
3,829/38,956

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 41 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/24
Grantees still filing
13/24
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AKIING 8TH FIRE — $1,310,054 · EducationAKIING 8TH FIREWANDLER FAMILY FOUNDATION — $157,231 · EducationWANDLER FAMILY FOUNDATION+2 more — $56,255 · EducationNATIVE AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES INC — $65,334 · OtherNATIVE AMERI…Individual grant recipient — $14,800 · OtherIndividual g…DEFENDERS OF THE BLACK HILLS INC — $10,000 · OtherINTERTRIBAL COUP — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherPUPPET FARM ARTS — $10,000 · OtherCHEYENNE RIVER YOUTH PROJECT INC — $11,000 · Other+13 more — $85,890 · Other+13 moreKnife Chief Buffalo Nation Society — $13,000 · Human ServicesOLOHANA INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesNATIVE AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT PATHWAYS — $7,500 · Human ServicesKUKULU KUMUHANA O ANAHOLA — $7,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOPI FOUNDATION LOMASUMI'NANGWTUKWSIWMANI — $7,000 · Human ServicesSEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC — $5,500 · Human ServicesCONGREGATIONS CARING FOR CREATION — $44,000 · ReligionTEXAS TRIBAL BUFFALO PROJECT — $15,000 · Community ImprovementNative American food sovereignty alliance dba NAFSA — $8,000 · Community ImprovementNDN COLLECTIVE INC — $7,000 · Community ImprovementINDIAN COUNTRY GRASSROOTS SUPPORT — $6,000 · Community ImprovementTREES WATER AND PEOPLE — $7,000 · EnvironmentNATIVE SEEDSSOUTHWESTERN ENDANGERED — $7,000 · EnvironmentALASKA COMMUNITY ACTION ON TOXICS — $6,000 · EnvironmentPono Kaulike Inc — $8,000 · Public BenefitTipey Joa Native Warriors — $7,500 · Public Benefit
Education$1,523,540Other$217,024Human Services$60,000Religion$44,000Community Improvement$36,000Environment$20,000Public Benefit$15,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAKIING 8TH FIRE — $1,310,054 over 5y, 97% of budgetCONGREGATIONS CARING FOR CREATION — $44,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetPhotographers Without Borders Inc — $40,000 over 1y, 66% of budgetRogue Climate — $16,255 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTEXAS TRIBAL BUFFALO PROJECT — $15,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetKnife Chief Buffalo Nation Society — $13,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetCHEYENNE RIVER YOUTH PROJECT INC — $11,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNative American food sovereignty alliance dba NAFSA — $8,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCOVENANT PATHWAYS — $7,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTipey Joa Native Warriors — $7,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetKUKULU KUMUHANA O ANAHOLA — $7,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetTREES WATER AND PEOPLE — $7,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNDN COLLECTIVE INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOPI FOUNDATION LOMASUMI'NANGWTUKWSIWMANI — $7,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHer Many Voices Foundation — $7,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetNATIVE SEEDSSOUTHWESTERN ENDANGERED — $7,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHEALING BRIDGES — $7,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetSEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC — $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

First Nations Develop…Santa Fe Natural Toba…The Annenberg Foundat…Seventh Generation Fu…Common Counsel Founda…Clif Family FoundationPatagoniaorgNdn Collective IncImpactassetsincWindward FundAmalgamated Charitabl…Newman's Own Foundati…
First Nations Development InstituteCO21× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: First Nations Development Institute · Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Inc · Common Counsel Foundation · Clif Family Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Ndn Collective Inc · Impactassetsinc · Windward Fund · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Newman's Own 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 Honor the Earth 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Rogue Climate — 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 41 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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