California · Nonprofit
Association of Ramaytush Ohlone
Association of Ramaytush Ohlone (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $918,678 to it, the largest being THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($350,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $446k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $919k
- Net assets
- $700k
What Association of Ramaytush Ohlone does
Mission
The Association of Ramaytush Ohlone (ARO) represents the interests of the original peoples of the San Francisco Peninsula. The purposes of the ARO align with our ancestral responsibilities to care for Mother Earth and to care for the people who reside in our ancestral homeland. The ARO partners with other organizations and agencies to pursue its objectives: the rematriation of our ancestral homeland; the revitalization of our culture, language, and community; research, consultation, and education to ensure accuracy in public culture and history; ecological restoration; community service; and arts and cultures.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Introduction: Sovereignty and RestorationThe Ramaytush Ohlone (rah-my-toosh oh-lone-ee) are the original peoples of the San Francisco Peninsula and are represented by the Association of Ramaytush Ohlone (ARO). Spanish, Mexican, and American colonization of California displaced our ancestors from our homeland and resulted in the near complete genocide of our people and culture. Of the original approximately 2,000 Ramaytush Ohlone who occupied the San Francisco Peninsula prior to colonization, only one lineage is known to have survived. To the best of our knowledge, none of our members have lived in our ancestral homeland for about 150 years and none of members have held land in our ancestral homeland for over 250 years. Because our cultural and spiritual traditions require that we be in direct relationship with our ancestral lands, our return is necessary for us to become whole as a people and for the broadening and deepening of the exercise of our sovereignty. In this instance, sovereignty means more than self-governance. Sovereignty refers also to cultural continuanceto our ability to continue into the future as a culturally distinct group of people with a shared ancestry. As…
$454,834 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $454,834.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $445k to $722k (+62%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of Association of Ramaytush Ohlone’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $423k → $181k.
4 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Association of Ramaytush Ohlone’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Association of Ramaytush Ohlone leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
41% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Association of Ramaytush Ohlone.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 54% · 2023 69% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
99% of Association of Ramaytush Ohlone's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $305k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Association of Ramaytush Ohlone holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Association of Ramaytush Ohlone
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Association of Ramaytush Ohlone: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Association of Ramaytush Ohlone?
- Association of Ramaytush Ohlone (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $918,678 to it, the largest being THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($350,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Association of Ramaytush Ohlone have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $918,678 in grants to Association of Ramaytush Ohlone, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Association of Ramaytush Ohlone?
- THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $350,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Association of Ramaytush Ohlone find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 17 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing