California · Nonprofit
Indian Cultural Organization
Indian Cultural Organization (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $934,704 to it, the largest being The McConnell Foundation ($250,300). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.0M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $935k
- Net assets
- $978k
What Indian Cultural Organization does
Mission
Advance community resilience through traditional lifeways, and protect and restore the native species, waters, and homelands of the Winnemem Wintu.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Salmon Restoration: ICO and its employees worked collaboratively with CDFW and NOAA to bring chinook salmon eggs to the McCloud river, monitor their development, and assist in trapping, transporting and relocating/releasing the salmon below the dam. We continue to work with volunteers and contractors toward the return of the descendants of our salmon from New Zealand.
$1,582,825 spent80% of program spendingCommunity Support/Eco Village: The REAP/Eco-Village program is funding renovations of current tribal housing as well as the planning of the eco-village tribal housing project currently underway with an architect and engineers.
$203,588 spent10% of program spendingArchaeological/cultural monitoring: ICO provided Winnemem Wintu tribal cultural monitors, changing the long practice of using other agencies or distant tribes to handle contracts with public agencies for projects in the Winnemem region of stewardship.
$141,065 spent$175,050 earned by the program7% of program spendingOther program services include, but are not limited to, historical preservation, ceremony and cultural development, and a run4salmon event.
$57,167 spent3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,984,645.
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 2024 to 2025, from $168k to $1.0M (+518%).
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 28% · 2023 12% · 2024 49% · 2025 89%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of Indian Cultural Organization’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Caleen Sisk
CEO
Board chair
Ron Toppi
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $16k → $365k.
7 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 Indian Cultural Organization’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
Indian Cultural Organization has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
67% 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 Indian Cultural Organization.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2019 100% · 2020 34% · 2021 37% · 2022 65% · 2023 68% — 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
17% of Indian Cultural Organization's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
64% of Indian Cultural Organization's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $269k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Indian Cultural Organization runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Indian Cultural Organization receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $488k on record.
- Department of the Interior$413k
- Department of Commerce$75k
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 Indian Cultural Organization
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
90% 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 Indian Cultural Organization: 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 Indian Cultural Organization?
- Indian Cultural Organization (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $934,704 to it, the largest being The McConnell Foundation ($250,300). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Indian Cultural Organization have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $934,704 in grants to Indian Cultural Organization, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Indian Cultural Organization?
- The McConnell Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $250,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Indian Cultural Organization 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.
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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 2020–2025), and the filings of 19 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