New York · Nonprofit
Land is Life Inc
Land is Life Inc (New York) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,924,783 to it, the largest being THE PETERFFY FOUNDATION INC ($4,528,112). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $18M
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Land is Life Inc does
Mission
The mission of Land is Life is to advance a process of dialogue and strategic action to achieve legal recognition of, and respect for at the local, national and international levels Indigenous Peoples rights to self-determination and collective ownership of their territories, lands, resources and knowledge.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Since our founding in 1992, we have built a broad, trusted network of indigenous leaders, communities and organizations defined by solidarity, transparency and a shared vision of the future. We are committed to equipping our grassroots indigenous partners with the skills, strategies and resources needed to campaign successfully for their right to self-determination.
$1,816,133 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,816,133.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $1.1M to $3.2M (+202%).
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: 2017 7% · 2020 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Luisa Castaneda Quintana
Exec Director
Board chair
Mariam Aboubakrine
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $377k → $3.2M.
10 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 Land is Life Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 funders by total. 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
Land is Life Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
39% 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 Land is Life Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 24% · 2019 38% · 2020 23% · 2021 45% · 2022 46% · 2023 32% — 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.
How long its funders stay
64% of Land is Life Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
Land is Life Inc draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Organizations like Land is Life 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 New York
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
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Land is Life Inc: 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 Land is Life Inc?
- Land is Life Inc (New York) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,924,783 to it, the largest being THE PETERFFY FOUNDATION INC ($4,528,112). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Land is Life Inc have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $17,924,783 in grants to Land is Life Inc, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Land is Life Inc?
- THE PETERFFY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,528,112 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Land is Life Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 36 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