Tennessee · Nonprofit
FireKeepers International
FireKeepers International (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,729 to it, the largest being THE BURKEHAVEN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($15,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $138k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $21k
- Net assets
- $113k
What FireKeepers International does
Mission
Our primary purpose is to preserve and teach indigenious and modern life skills, feed the hungry and prepare people for hard times.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Mandate 25 teaches families in communities how to prepare and maintain a garden, how to choose nutrient dense foods to enhance the health of the community and how to preserve the harvest. In 2023 Mandate 25 worked with 3 indigenous groups to establish a community garden, host a five day intensive gardening program, and trained 60 people in sustainable gardening and equipped them with gardening supplies and seeds to begin their own vintage gardens utilizing eco- friendly methods. The impact of this is generational and considerable in these three areas affected by malnutrition and starvation.
$15,002 spent61% of program spendingThe Garden Project teaches communities how to recognize indigenous plants that are edible and how to maintain natural production of those plants and trees to ensure a continual harvest for years to come. In 2023, the Garden Project hosted several volunteer work days to prepare the land for cultivating additional indigenous crops including an orchard of local fruit trees. The Garden Project saw 25 volunteers working at various tasks to facilitate the vision, planting 50 trees and 6 gardens.
$8,752 spent36% of program spendingThe Back to Our Roots program focuses on indigenous cultural practices that reconnect people with the land which has proven to be a foundational step in overcoming ptsd and other traumas. The Back to Our Roots program hosted an online language restoration program taught by Chief RiverWind to encourage the continuation of the native Taino language. The language restoration program connected with over 2,000 people. Additionally, the program posted 18 online video survival skills trainings and taught several in person classes for 200 people. We also hosted an online frybread making class.
$677 spent3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $24,431.
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 $60k to $122k (+103%).
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: 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of FireKeepers International’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $124.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 FireKeepers International’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
FireKeepers International leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
28% 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 FireKeepers International.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 99% · 2022 97% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
FireKeepers International draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
FireKeepers International runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,524 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,524 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like FireKeepers International
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 FireKeepers International: 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 FireKeepers International?
- FireKeepers International (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,729 to it, the largest being THE BURKEHAVEN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($15,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FireKeepers International have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $20,729 in grants to FireKeepers International, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FireKeepers International?
- THE BURKEHAVEN FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FireKeepers International find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 3 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