Washington · Nonprofit
HAIDA ROOTS
HAIDA ROOTS (Washington) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $237,688 to it, the largest being ARTSFUND ($66,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $87k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $238k
- Net assets
- $0
What Haida Roots does
Mission
Haida Roots is committed to preserving the endangered Haida language (Alaskan dialect) for future generations. Our mission is to connect community members living in the Seattle area to the Haida language and culture through programs and opportunities created by Haida Roots. Along with keeping our ancient cultural ways alive, we support the creative evolution of new Haida music, art and books. Haida Roots also supports cultural groups that have the same mission of Preserving Endangered Indigenous Languages. At Haida Roots, we keep our ancestral ways alive through strong community ties, creating language learning opportunities, curriculum/literary development, song & dance, storytelling, art, traditional regalia making & more. As we do our work, we keep this goal in mind: 2nd language learners will speak our ancient tongue & will nurture the new generations of 1st language Haida speakers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
"Sealaska would like to extend our appreciation to for your commitment to revitalizing the Xaad Kil language. We were encouraged to receive your application requesting support for your language program. I am pleased to share that Sealaskas board of directors voted to award $25,000 to your program." With these funds: We worked on translating more songs and stories, created and recorded new Haida songs, made videos of Elders speaking Haida, paid an apprentice to work with Haida language teachers and Elders, paid an Elder/teacher.
$25,000 spentof which $25,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $25,000.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.
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 HAIDA ROOTS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Sondra Cunningham
CEO/President
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $12k → $44k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 HAIDA ROOTS’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
HAIDA ROOTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
79% 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 HAIDA ROOTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 51% · 2021 100% · 2022 44% · 2023 57% — 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
83% of HAIDA ROOTS's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $60k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
HAIDA ROOTS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like HAIDA ROOTS
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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 HAIDA ROOTS: 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 HAIDA ROOTS?
- HAIDA ROOTS (Washington) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $237,688 to it, the largest being ARTSFUND ($66,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HAIDA ROOTS have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $237,688 in grants to HAIDA ROOTS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HAIDA ROOTS?
- ARTSFUND is the largest funder on record, with $66,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HAIDA ROOTS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 6 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