California · Nonprofit
MUJERES DE LA TIERRA
MUJERES DE LA TIERRA (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,233,464 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($730,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $538k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $432k
What Mujeres de la Tierra does
Mission
Mujeres de la Tierra is an environmental equity non-profit funded in 2004. Mujeres de la Tierra inspires the healing of la madre tierra by working to build grassroots, community leadership and capacity among historically unrecognized communities, especially with immigrants and/or communities of color. We firmly believe in the power of one. Our engagement efforts are created through a cultural lens. We provide tools of empowerment by using facts, data and science. We are connected to the community through local residents' imput. Platicas, listening sessions, and other means of interactive communication.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Community outreach workshops and educational activities throughout los angeles, informing local residents about environmental issues, and providing access to open natural spaces. The charity is currently refurbishing juntos park in the city of los angeles. In this endevor,the organization is focused on community listening and engagement and school presentations in order to design a renovated park design with many upgrades. Also working on a project vamos a la playa, where children are taken on field trips to the beach and other parts of the coast. This project is 4 years old. Last year we held 3 vamos a la playa family events. We took over 140 community member to malibu beaches for a fun, family day.
$177,035 spent63% of program spendingDeveloping and executing bilingual/bicultural programs and workshops regarding stormwater captureand developing a sense of leadership and ownership by local community members.macarther park; this two year city of los angeles project ends december 2024. The focus was informing and education of the community of the storm water capture project funded by measure w. The contract included stakeholder engagement, organizing community events, identifying constituents, working with established nonprofits, educational institutions. Business community including street vendors and other constituents.
$31,082 spent11% of program spendingMujeres de la Tierra has teamed up with other organizations to provide education about restoringnative vegetation. In 2023, a grant of $730,000 was received to restore juntos park located in the city of los angeles. This restoration will take several years.
$74,530 spent$758,000 earned by the program26% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $282,647.
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. 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 $993k to $434k (−56%).
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: 2021 37% · 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
27% of MUJERES DE LA TIERRA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Irma Munoz
CEO
Board chair
Tracy Egoscue
Board chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $15k → $875k.
6 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 MUJERES DE LA TIERRA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 13 of 14 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
MUJERES DE LA TIERRA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
76% 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 MUJERES DE LA TIERRA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 40% · 2021 67% · 2022 78% · 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.
How long its funders stay
40% of MUJERES DE LA TIERRA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
70% of MUJERES DE LA TIERRA'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 $374k that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $859k 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
MUJERES DE LA TIERRA has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like MUJERES DE LA TIERRA
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
98% 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 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MUJERES DE LA TIERRA: 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 MUJERES DE LA TIERRA?
- MUJERES DE LA TIERRA (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,233,464 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($730,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MUJERES DE LA TIERRA have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,233,464 in grants to MUJERES DE LA TIERRA, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MUJERES DE LA TIERRA?
- MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $730,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MUJERES DE LA TIERRA 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 14 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