New Mexico · Nonprofit
COLLECTIVE HERITAGE INSTITUTE
COLLECTIVE HERITAGE INSTITUTE (New Mexico) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,739,169 to it, the largest being THE PETERFFY FOUNDATION INC ($2,395,000). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.3M
- Funders on record
- 67
- Grants received
- $8.7M
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Collective Heritage Institute does
Mission
To disseminate environmental solutions to educate, inspire, and equip people toward effective action, to develop and spread model economic strategies that conserve biological and cultural diversity, and to promote understanding of the relationship between humans and nature.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Indigeneity program - the program mission is to promote indigenous environmental and social justice leaders by creating a cultural bridge and public education outlets. Number of people served/affected/attending/etc.: a potential audience reach of 1.2 million through bioneers.org unique visitors, national bioneers conference attendees exposure, local events and active social media engagement, website, tek intensives and distribution of educational materials.
$1,603,773 spent32% of program spendingBioneers conference - the bioneers "headwaters" conference is a pre-eminent leading-edge forum where social and scientific innovators focus on solutions inspired by nature and human ingenuity. Number of people served/affected/attending/etc.: a potential annual audience reach of 1.2 million through bioneers.org unique visitors, national bioneers conference attendees, local events and active social media engagement; estimated total regular reach of40 million via radio/tv; radio series built from conference content is broadcast on over 100 stations spanning 400 communities for a total of 437 stations. Video distributed via linktv and other broadcast methods. Tens of millions via conference video distributed via social media and youtube (approximately 300,000+ followers on all social platforms; video content on social platforms including youtube and facebook have received over 14,500,000 views). Monthly website traffic is at 3x historical averages, with an average of 100k visitors/month. The next annual bioneers conference is scheduled for march 2026.
$1,353,776 spent$545,210 earned by the program27% of program spendingBioneers public education - an innovative collaborative project to dissemniate inspiring stories and breakthrough solutions. Activities include aspects of all the bioneers programs. Active engagement of a "learning network" though multi-media and the bioneers radio program. Number of people served/affected/attending/etc.: a potential audience reach of 1.2 million through bioneers.org unique visitors, national bioneers conference attendees exposure, radio series, podcasts, local events and active social media engagement, website and distribution of educational materials. Monthly website traffic is at 3x historical averages, with an average of 100k visitors/month and approximately 300,000+ followers on all social platforms. Estimated total regular reach of 40 million via radio/tv built from conference content and other sources. The radio series is broadcast on over 100 stations spanning 400 communities for a total of 437 stations. This program has unlimited potential.
$905,480 spent18% of program spendingElrf - (a re-granting fund) the fund awards grants and fellowships to women-led organizations and individuals across diverse fields who make innovative contributions. It helps leverage under-recognized and often grassroots women and groups to obtain exposure, connections and funding. Includes indigigiving activity. Number of people served/affected/attending/etc.: 13 individuals and 63 organizations that serve thousands of constituents. This program has unlimited potential through the grants and fellowships provided.
$112,721 spentof which $112,721 as grants2% of program spendingBioneers resilient communities network/localization/dnm/f&f (includes aspects of bioneers learning, pollinator/beaming, localization and restorative food systems) - an innovative bioneers collaborative project to reconcile nature and cultures. Activities include bioneers learning, community resilience, engagement of a "learning network", localization, dnm and restorative food systems.number of people reached: a potential audience reach of 1.2 million through bioneers.org unique visitors, national conference attendees exposure, local events and active social media engagement, website and distribution of educational materials. This program has unlimited potential to help build community resilience from the ground up.
$922,486 spent18% of program spendingEvery women's leadership/cwl - the everywoman's leadership regranting fund is allocated, in collaboration with bioneers' indigeneity program, through small grants and fellowships to nonprofit organizations, worthy individuals, and community caregivers. These recipients are chosen for both their alignment with the mission and program priorities of everywoman's leadership--which operates at the nexus of gender equity, racial justice, cultural diversity, and consciousness--and indigeneity--which promotes indigenous approaches to solving earth's most pressing environmental and social crises while weaving networks, partnerships, and alliances among native and non-native allies. The funds flow to women-led, black, indigenous, and other marginalized communities in need. Expanded during the pandemic, it has continued to be literally lifesaving in many cases.
$175,360 spent3% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,073,596.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2018 to 2019, from $799k to $2.9M (+268%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of COLLECTIVE HERITAGE INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Kenny Ausubel
Co-founder & CEO
Board chair
Eriel Deranger
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 24 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $818k → $1.4M.
32 of 67 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 COLLECTIVE HERITAGE INSTITUTE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 67 funders by total. 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
COLLECTIVE HERITAGE INSTITUTE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 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 COLLECTIVE HERITAGE INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 12% · 2018 36% · 2019 19% · 2020 45% · 2021 54% · 2022 43% · 2023 28% — 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.
How long its funders stay
35% of COLLECTIVE HERITAGE INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
COLLECTIVE HERITAGE INSTITUTE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New Mexico, across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
COLLECTIVE HERITAGE INSTITUTE's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 84 social science nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding COLLECTIVE HERITAGE INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $75 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $75
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like COLLECTIVE HERITAGE INSTITUTE
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 New Mexico
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 14 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COLLECTIVE HERITAGE INSTITUTE: 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 COLLECTIVE HERITAGE INSTITUTE?
- COLLECTIVE HERITAGE INSTITUTE (New Mexico) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,739,169 to it, the largest being THE PETERFFY FOUNDATION INC ($2,395,000). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLLECTIVE HERITAGE INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 67 organizations giving $8,739,169 in grants to COLLECTIVE HERITAGE INSTITUTE, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLLECTIVE HERITAGE INSTITUTE?
- THE PETERFFY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,395,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLLECTIVE HERITAGE INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Mexico. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 67 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