California · Nonprofit
Sankofa Roots
Sankofa Roots (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $291,698 to it, the largest being CAMELBACK VENTURES ($88,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $87k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $292k
- Net assets
- $34k
What Sankofa Roots does
Mission
Sankofa Roots prepares frontline communities for climate resilience through emergency preparedness training ancestral ecological knowledge reclamation and career pathways into first responder and environmental leadership fields.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Sankofa Roots provided emergency preparedness training land-based skills education and ancestral ecological knowledge programming through workshops and community organizing events. Programming centered frontline communities in building practical crisis resilience skills alongside cultural grounding in land and lineage. During the reporting period Sankofa Roots served 700 participants across its training and organizing programs.
$36,400 spent58% of program spendingSankofa Roots contracted with trainers facilitators Native elders and land stewards to deliver culturally grounded expert-led programming. These partnerships ensured that instruction reflected lived expertise Indigenous land knowledge and community accountability. Contractor relationships supported direct service delivery across all program areas.
$22,472 spent36% of program spendingSankofa Roots funded professional certifications in land management and wilderness medicine for staff and community members creating career pathways into first responder and environmental leadership fields. Certifications obtained include Wilderness First Responder WFR and Wildland Firefighter credentials. This program advances Sankofa Roots mission by building a pipeline of credentialed practitioners from frontline communities.
$4,375 spent7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $63,247.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $83k to $22k (−74%).
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.
61% of Sankofa Roots’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (92% 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.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Jamani Ashe
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $90k → $112k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 Sankofa Roots’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
Sankofa Roots leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
97% 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 Sankofa Roots.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 56% · 2023 43% — 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.
Where its funders are
Sankofa Roots draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $144k 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
Sankofa Roots runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,195 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,195 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Sankofa Roots
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
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Sankofa Roots: 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 Sankofa Roots?
- Sankofa Roots (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $291,698 to it, the largest being CAMELBACK VENTURES ($88,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Sankofa Roots have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $291,698 in grants to Sankofa Roots, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Sankofa Roots?
- CAMELBACK VENTURES is the largest funder on record, with $88,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Sankofa Roots 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 FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), 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