Washington · Nonprofit
Se Si Le
Se Si Le (Washington) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $993,723 to it, the largest being NDN COLLECTIVE INC ($200,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $322k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $994k
- Net assets
- $115k
What Se Si Le does
Mission
Se-Si-Le (Saw-See-Lah) is the Lummi language term for our grandmother. Respect for elders is central to native life: to acknowledge grandmother earth is to invoke ancestral and cultural power. Founded by Lummi tribal member Jay Julius, Se-Si-Le reintroduces indigenous spiritual law into the mainstream conversation about climate change and the environment.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
During the 2024 Tax Year Se'Si'Le designed, organized, coordinated, and implemented an event to bring attention to the plight of the Southern Resident Killer Whales, an important species for Pacific Northwest Tribal Cultures. It also helped document and finalize the editing of the documentation of the event, and distributed the edited version through our networks. Se'Si'Le continued working with the Publisher Braided River to complete the editing process of our book: In the Spirit of Right and Respectful Relations. This book was released in August, 2025.We continued working on a Climate Action partnership with M.I.T. and its Department of Anthropology. The accomplishment included a three-year blueprint for action to inaugurate the first series of exchanges over the subsequent three-years with the first to take place in the summer of 2025.We worked with XR specialists to capture and archive material to be used in our Cultural Enrichment programs. Working with the contractors, we have now in place material we can deploy in our XR programs.We also received title to 2.14 acres of land on Orcas Island with an interest-free loan from an Orcas Island resident. We are working with the…
$321,679 spentof which $90,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $321,679.
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.
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 $201k to $3.1M (+1452%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 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
Kurt Russo
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $179k → $465k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 Se Si Le’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
Se Si Le has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
62% 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 Se Si Le.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 89% · 2022 24% · 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
Se Si Le draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $120k 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.
Organizations like Se Si Le
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Se Si Le: 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 Se Si Le?
- Se Si Le (Washington) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $993,723 to it, the largest being NDN COLLECTIVE INC ($200,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Se Si Le have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $993,723 in grants to Se Si Le, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Se Si Le?
- NDN COLLECTIVE INC is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Se Si Le find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 11 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