New Mexico · Nonprofit
SACRED DEFENSE FUND
SACRED DEFENSE FUND (New Mexico) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $221,445 to it, the largest being NOVO FOUNDATION ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $742k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $221k
- Net assets
- $347k
What Sacred Defense Fund does
Mission
Sacred Defense Fund stands with indigenous communities to protect their sovereignty, lands, and cultural heritage. In the spirit and community shown at standing rock in 2016 and beyond, we work to amplify indigenous voices and protect rights through grassroots organizing, impactful storytelling, and robust legal action.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
During the year, Sacred Defense Fund sponsored soveriegn bodies institute, a research and advocacy initiative addressing gender-based and sexual violence against indigenous people. The organization exercised discretion and control over all funds.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
6 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 SACRED DEFENSE FUND’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
SACRED DEFENSE FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
53% 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 SACRED DEFENSE FUND.
“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
SACRED DEFENSE FUND draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New Mexico, across 4 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $98k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
SACRED DEFENSE FUND runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,798 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,798 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like SACRED DEFENSE FUND
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 Mexico
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
39%
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 SACRED DEFENSE FUND: 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 SACRED DEFENSE FUND?
- SACRED DEFENSE FUND (New Mexico) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $221,445 to it, the largest being NOVO FOUNDATION ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SACRED DEFENSE FUND have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $221,445 in grants to SACRED DEFENSE FUND.
- Who is the largest funder of SACRED DEFENSE FUND?
- NOVO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SACRED DEFENSE FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Mexico. 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 2024–2024), and the filings of 10 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