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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $68,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $295,045 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $227,045 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 $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
ALASKA COMMUNITY ACTION ON TOXICS$6,000
NOOWUH KNOWLEDGE CENTER$6,000
KNIFE CHIEF BUFFALO NATION SOCIETY$6,000
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 (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 its 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
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
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

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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +181% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
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

  • 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
  • VA
    Vines Art Festival
    one grant, 2024 · $15k
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 Haiku Aina Permaculture Initiative
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3
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
4
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
5
International Indigenous Fund for Development and Solidarity Batani
International
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
Amazon Conservation Team

The amazon conservation team (act) partners with indigenous and other local communities to protect tropical forests and strengthen traditional culture.

Science & Tech
9
The Foundation for Indigenous Education Leadership Development
Education
10
Braided River

We inspire people to protect wild places through images and stories that change perspectives, western north america's public lands are under threat. using the power of beautiful images, we publish photography books and create multimedia…

Environment
11
Intertribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council
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12
Native American Fiber Program
Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indian Country Grassroots Support; 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.
04the grantee network

24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/24
Grantees still filing
12/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…Vines Art Festival: $14,800 · OtherVines Art Fe…DEFENDERS OF THE BLACK HILLS INC: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherINTERTRIBAL COUP: $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 ServicesNATIVE AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesOLOHANA INC: $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 ImprovementNATIVE SEEDSSOUTHWESTERN ENDANGERED: $7,000 · EnvironmentTREES WATER AND PEOPLE: $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 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 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 budgetTipey Joa Native Warriors: $7,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCOVENANT PATHWAYS: $7,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetHEALING BRIDGES: $7,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetNATIVE SEEDSSOUTHWESTERN ENDANGERED: $7,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHer Many Voices Foundation: $7,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetKUKULU KUMUHANA O ANAHOLA: $7,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetNDN COLLECTIVE INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREES WATER AND PEOPLE: $7,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE HOPI FOUNDATION LOMASUMI'NANGWTUKWSIWMANI: $7,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC: $5,500 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…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

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 Honor the Earth funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Honor the Earth. 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 →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
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 41 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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