California · Nonprofit
Kai Poma
Kai Poma (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $245,000 to it, the largest being FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE ($175,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $117k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $245k
- Net assets
- $146k
What Kai Poma does
Mission
Re-establish Tribal stewardship over coastal lands to preserve cultural and ecological sites
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
For 2023 the programmatic work continued to involve consultations with state agencies to determine the scope of the work needed to transfer the land from Caltrans to Kai Poma per SB 231.
$11,789 spent38% of program spendingKai Poma developed a virtual office that included setting up emails and a web page for the organization and are working to develop program policies and procedures as necessary and required. Maintained an accounting system.
$19,346 spent62% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $31,135.
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 2022 to 2023, from $60k to $146k (+143%).
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.
98% of Kai Poma’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Eddie Knight Sr
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $35k → $120k.
From the IRS filings of Kai Poma’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
Kai Poma leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% 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
100% 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 Kai Poma.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 83% — 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
Kai Poma draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 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
Kai Poma runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,135 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,135 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like Kai Poma
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Kai Poma: 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 Kai Poma?
- Kai Poma (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $245,000 to it, the largest being FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE ($175,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Kai Poma have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $245,000 in grants to Kai Poma, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Kai Poma?
- FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE is the largest funder on record, with $175,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Kai Poma 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 FY2023 (financials across 2022–2023), and the filings of 2 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