California · Nonprofit
Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant
Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant (California) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,208,659 to it, the largest being THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ($230,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $746k
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $220k
What Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant does
Mission
We promote reciprocity in the psychedelic community, and support the protection of sacred plants and cultural traditions. We advance psychedelic justice through curating critical conversations and uplifting the voices of women, queer people, Indigenous peoples, people of color, and the Global South in the field of psychedelic science.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Since launching in April 2021, the Indigenous Reciprocity Initiative has raised $292,387 to support community-led, grassroots projects designed and implemented by local communities to address their self-determined needs. Chacruna Institute hosted 14 conferences with accessible online recordings and has reached a cumulative attendance of 11,188 people, provided over 2,340 scholarships for diverse educational programs, and published more than 1,075 articles in English, Spanish, and Portuguese, reaching over 1.7 million readers across 195 countries.
$610,740 spentof which $177,045 as grants$131,298 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $610,740.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $71k to $244k (+243%).
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.
81% of Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $10k → $221k.
13 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 73% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $19k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant). These are real filings, and they are not money Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant raised.
From the IRS filings of Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant’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
Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
76% 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 Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 47% · 2022 48% · 2023 57% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
50% of Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
73% of Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $328k that is directly attributable, 79% of it comes from funders outside California, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $881k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant has grown faster than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
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 Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant: 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 Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant?
- Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant (California) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,208,659 to it, the largest being THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ($230,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $1,208,659 in grants to Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant?
- THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $230,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 27 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