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The Cultural ConservancySacred Land Foundation

We are a Native-led Indigenous rights organization.

$141k
Granted FY2023
6
Grants FY2023
3
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2023.

Arts & Culture$187kEnvironment$32kHuman Services$22kCommunity Improvement$10k
02FY2023 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $61,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $140,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $79,500 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.
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Kik Ka Eaikahelelani Inc$11,000
Morning Star Leaders$10,000
Advcts Indigenous CA Lang$10,000
Movement Strategy Center$10,000
Hana Retreat Ala Kukui$10,000
Nakoa Foundation$10,000
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 (FY19–21, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Running Strong Indian Youth: $12k → 6%Running Strong Amer Ind Youth: $10k → 6%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$211k · 8 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
2

Total granted

$211k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+83%
+255%

Still filing today

75%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationCommunity 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

  • KA
    Kuaaina Associates Inc
    3× · 2019–2022 · $32k · revenue +171% · 27% of their budget
  • AF
    Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival
    3× · 2019–2023 · $30k · revenue +66%
  • NK
    NA KALAI WA'A
    2× · 2020–2022 · $30k · revenue +244%

Funded once

  • TM
    THE MARIN MUSEUM SOCIETY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +56%
  • FN
    FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +255%
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
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
2
Lanikuhonua Cultural Institute
—
3
Ka Makani Kaili Koa

Operating exclusively for charitable, educational, scientific, and literary purposes, the organization preserves and advances Native Hawaiian culture through education, leadership, and STREAMY integration: Sciences, Technologies, Reading,…

Arts & Culture
4
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
5
Na 'Aina Kai Botanical Gardens
Philanthropy
6
Hiikua a Hiialo Cultural Foundation
Arts & Culture
7
The Haiku Aina Permaculture Initiative
—
8
Kalauokekahuli

Kalauokekahuli encourages the healthy growth of Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander families by supporting and enhancing the well-being of birthing people, parents, and their infants with holistic, multi-generational, and…

Human Services
9
Ka Ha O Ka Aina
Environment
10
Kahea the Hawaiian Environmental Alliance

Kahea is a community-based organization working to improve the quality of life for hawai`i's people and future generations through the revitalization and protection of hawai`i's unique natural and cultural resources. kahea advocates for…

Environment
11
Kamawaelualani Corp

Nonprofit dedicated to community education and culture.

Arts & Culture
12
Kaiaulu Initiatives

Kaiaulu initiatives is regreening and rebuilding lahaina one tree and one person at a time through education, training, community networking & sustainability while incorporating hawaiian cultural practices.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Na Kalai Wa'a; the most unlike its peers is Na Hoa Aloha O Ka Pu Uhonua O Honaunau. 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

11 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. 11 of the 12 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Kuaaina Associates Inc: $32,000 · Arts & CultureKuaaina Associates IncAdvocates for Indigenous California Language Survival: $30,000 · Arts & CultureAdvocates for Indigenous California Language SurvivalNA KALAI WA'A: $30,000 · Arts & CultureNA KALAI WA'AKIK KA'EAIKAHELELANI INC: $23,000 · Arts & CultureKIK KA'EAIKAHELELANI INCTHE MARIN MUSEUM SOCIETY INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MARIN MUSEUM SOCIETY INCNAKOA FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureNAKOA FOUNDATIONNA HOA ALOHA O KA PU UHONUA O HONAUNAU: $32,000 · OtherNA HOA ALOHA O KA PU UHONUA …MORNING STAR LEADERS INC: $22,000 · OtherMORNING STAR LEADERS INCFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $10,000 · OtherFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT IN…AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH RUNNING STRONG INC: $22,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN …HANA RETREAT: $20,000 · EducationHANA RETR…MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $10,000 · Community Improvement
Arts & Culture$135,000Other$64,000Human Services$22,000Education$20,000Community Improvement$10,000

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 budgetKuaaina Associates Inc: $32,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetAdvocates for Indigenous California Language Survival: $30,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetNA KALAI WA'A: $30,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetKIK KA'EAIKAHELELANI INC: $23,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH RUNNING STRONG INC: $22,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHANA RETREAT: $20,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTHE MARIN MUSEUM SOCIETY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAKOA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Trustees of the Estat…Rsf Social Finance Inc
Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha SchoolsHI15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha Schools · Rsf Social Finance Inc

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 The Cultural ConservancySacred Land Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cultural ConservancySacred Land Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Cultural ConservancySacred Land Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Cultural ConservancySacred Land Foundation 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 12 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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