California · Nonprofit
OMNIRA INSTITUTE
OMNIRA INSTITUTE (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $252,500 to it, the largest being The Peoples Land Fund ($126,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $167k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $253k
- Net assets
- $138k
What Omnira Institute does
Mission
Omnira lnstitute's purpose is to_support the emotional and mental health of black people through the recovery and preservation of the roots of African American culture by a} demonstrating the living links to Africa that survived slavery and b} reintroducing and reaffirming the historic and psychic links to West African cultural and spiritual tradition
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Our annual Black-Eyed Pea Festival, a celebration of African & African American traditional food, music and visual art took place in the fall. Roots of Faith, Roots of Freedom is a series of public presentations demonstrating the living history and cultural retention of African Americans through spiritual expression using drum and voice. These presentations took place throughout the year at our own instigation and also by invitation of communities and organizations.
$48,788 spentof which $48,788 as grants98% of program spendingIn 2024 Omnira took its first step toward realizing the dream of securing land for cultural programming by identifying a parcel and securing funds for acquisition in 2025.
$1,000 spentof which $126,000 as grants2% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $49,788.
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 $58k to $45k (−23%).
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.
97% of OMNIRA INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Wanda Ravernell
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $17k → $23k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 OMNIRA INSTITUTE’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
OMNIRA INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
93% 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 OMNIRA INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 59% · 2019 87% · 2020 100% · 2023 65% — growing more concentrated.
“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
99% of OMNIRA INSTITUTE's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $70k 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
OMNIRA INSTITUTE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding OMNIRA INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$20k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like OMNIRA INSTITUTE
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.
Public support
97%
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 OMNIRA INSTITUTE: 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 OMNIRA INSTITUTE?
- OMNIRA INSTITUTE (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $252,500 to it, the largest being The Peoples Land Fund ($126,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OMNIRA INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $252,500 in grants to OMNIRA INSTITUTE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OMNIRA INSTITUTE?
- The Peoples Land Fund is the largest funder on record, with $126,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OMNIRA INSTITUTE 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 7 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