Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
CRUSHING COLONIALISM INC
CRUSHING COLONIALISM INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $757,175 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($450,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $615k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $757k
- Net assets
- $294k
What Crushing Colonialism Inc does
Mission
Crushing colonialism's mission is to uplift and tell the stories of indigenous peope through media and traditional storytelling. We produce international reporting and organizing to inform and empower marginalized community members, create professional opportunities, and advocate for th just funding and employment of native artists, media workers and storytellers. In doing this we control our narratives in order to crush colonialism.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In 2023 crushing colonialism launched our multi-year programming for decolonized beatz indigenous world pride, which included an event in winnipeg, canada and the formation of an international planning council. Crushing colonialism also released the first edition of a new quarterly publication, the magazine. In 2024 the organization expanded its work through strategic planning, fundraising, and communications, as well its reach with community partners. We demonstrated our commitment to principles of disability and language justice with the creation of communications materials in a variety of languages and co-sponsored a film screening with indigenous filmmakers and people from kuirkuros tribe in brazil.
$215,089 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $215,089.
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 2024 to 2025, from $153k to $306k (+100%).
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.
97% of CRUSHING COLONIALISM INC’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
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $150k → $165k.
From the IRS filings of CRUSHING COLONIALISM INC’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
CRUSHING COLONIALISM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
32% 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 CRUSHING COLONIALISM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 91% — 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.
Where its funders are
CRUSHING COLONIALISM INC draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
CRUSHING COLONIALISM INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CRUSHING COLONIALISM INC
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
46% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CRUSHING COLONIALISM INC?
- CRUSHING COLONIALISM INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $757,175 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($450,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CRUSHING COLONIALISM INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $757,175 in grants to CRUSHING COLONIALISM INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CRUSHING COLONIALISM INC?
- THE FORD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $450,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CRUSHING COLONIALISM INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 7 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing