Minnesota · Nonprofit
MAJI YA CHAI LAND SANCTUARY
MAJI YA CHAI LAND SANCTUARY (Minnesota) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $814,099 to it, the largest being IMPACTASSETSINC ($500,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $239k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $814k
- Net assets
- $662k
What Maji Ya Chai Land Sanctuary does
Mission
We provide a land-based place for people of all ages, especially those from black, indigenous & communities of color, to gather, rest, heal & build community for collective thriving.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
This was our third full fiscal year with the physical site, a 40-acre farmstead located ten minutes west of Two Harbors, MN & Gichigaming (Lake Superior). During this year we continued learning about the land, how to steward the land & what that entails. Much of our spending went into costs related to the operations & upkeep of the land & buildings currently on it. We raised our first community space, a 26-foot Mongolian yurt, on the land this year & began hosing gatherings there. Activities from this year included a volunteer day in May when 30 students from North High in Minneapolis visited the land & helped with indoor & outdoor tasks; significant tree work done with volunteers in June to remove dead trees & brush from the north side of the farmhouse; a community yurt blessing in July 2025; A BioBlitz was held on the land in August, the first event of the new HEALL HUB partnership: The HEALL Hub brings together eight partner organizations to create transformative nature-based learning experiences for Black, Indigenous & communities of color on Minnesota's North Shore. Hosted at Maji ya Chai Land Sanctuarythe region's only BIPOC-centered nature retreatthis innovative…
$179,187 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $179,187.
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 2021 to 2022, from $70k to $557k (+699%).
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 MAJI YA CHAI LAND SANCTUARY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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.
Board chair
Camille Cyprian
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $3k → $250k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 MAJI YA CHAI LAND SANCTUARY’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
MAJI YA CHAI LAND SANCTUARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
82% 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 MAJI YA CHAI LAND SANCTUARY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 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
69% of MAJI YA CHAI LAND SANCTUARY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $254k that is directly attributable, 78% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $560k 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
MAJI YA CHAI LAND SANCTUARY has grown faster than half of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MAJI YA CHAI LAND SANCTUARY
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
56% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
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 MAJI YA CHAI LAND SANCTUARY?
- MAJI YA CHAI LAND SANCTUARY (Minnesota) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $814,099 to it, the largest being IMPACTASSETSINC ($500,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MAJI YA CHAI LAND SANCTUARY have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $814,099 in grants to MAJI YA CHAI LAND SANCTUARY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAJI YA CHAI LAND SANCTUARY?
- IMPACTASSETSINC is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAJI YA CHAI LAND SANCTUARY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 9 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