California · Nonprofit
LOS ANGELES INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' ALLIANCE
LOS ANGELES INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' ALLIANCE (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $510,802 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($300,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $336k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $511k
- Net assets
- $0
What Los Angeles Indigenous Peoples' Alliance does
Mission
Los Angeles Indigenous Peoples Alliance (LAIPA) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit grassroots organization founded in 1991 as collective of indigenous people and persons of conscience. Our mission is to promote the continued development of indigenous communities by organizing health, economic development and cultural education projects in Los Angeles and the surrounding areas. LAIPA is a woman-centered organization with the goal of creating space in order to liberate the power that each woman and girl holds. LAIPA encompasses a philosophy stating that women are the avenues to a strong leadership force in resisting the factors that oppress community wellness.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Xinachtli Germinating Seed Youth Leadership and Health Development Project is a rights of passage, culturally based pregnancy prevention project designed to provide adolescent female youth the guidance for a healthy development into adulthood.
$57,000 spentof which $25,000 as grants$42,000 earned by the program80% of program spendingCalmecac is the name for the cultural preservation program. We hold in person and online classes on indigenous math, Mayan and Aztec Calendar, Traditional Healing Methodologies, and the Mexica Dialectic Process.
$2,500 spent3% of program spendingAztlanahuac Cultural Embassy facilitates learning of those connections that bind virtually all "maiz-based" peoples and cultures with the goal of seeing themselves as part of living interconnected cultures, giving them a sense of thousands of years of belonging that can be found in Teotihuacan. We hold a retreat site for guest who visit our cultural embassy in Teotihuacan Mexico.
$6,000 spent8% of program spendingWe have partnered with LAWorks and we pay $6000 a year for 6 full time volunteers- fellows of LA Works.
$6,000 spent8% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $71,500.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $35k to $0 (−100%).
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 LOS ANGELES INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $6k → $40k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 LOS ANGELES INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' ALLIANCE’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
LOS ANGELES INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
41% 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 LOS ANGELES INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 92% · 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
LOS ANGELES INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' ALLIANCE draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 3 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $195k 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
LOS ANGELES INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' ALLIANCE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like LOS ANGELES INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' ALLIANCE
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
99% 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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LOS ANGELES INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' ALLIANCE?
- LOS ANGELES INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' ALLIANCE (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $510,802 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($300,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LOS ANGELES INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $510,802 in grants to LOS ANGELES INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' ALLIANCE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOS ANGELES INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' ALLIANCE?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOS ANGELES INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' ALLIANCE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 5 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