California · Nonprofit
SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC
SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC (California) receives grants from 164 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,303,922 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($10,110,000). 81 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.5M
- Funders on record
- 164
- Grants received
- $62M
- Net assets
- $31M
What Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Inc does
Mission
Support of indigenous people's programs
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Community vitality: strengthens indigenous identities by revitalizing and amplifying indigenous ways of living, knowing and being; cultural lifeways, languages, arts and creativity, and rebuilding community cohesion, traditional food systems, and strengthening connections.
$6,952,186 spentof which $4,699,281 as grants$76,120 earned by the program44% of program spendingLand, water, and climate: recognizes and supports indigenous peoples' traditional relationships, stewardship and resonsibilities to land, water, community, and spirit. Includes work for land acquisition/land back and water back, and sacred sites protection, and against aquacide and mega industrial extraction.
$5,944,651 spentof which $4,040,352 as grants$99,032 earned by the program37% of program spendingThriving women: recognizes indigenous women and girls' inherent strength and capacity for healing, leadership, and regenerating positive futures by directly supporting women/girl, and two-spirit led empowerment including trauma recovery, mmiwg2t responses, and body sovereignty.
$2,578,772 spentof which $1,750,133 as grants$1,570 earned by the program16% of program spendingFlicker fund: responds to already vulnerable and stressed indigenous communities on the frontlines of climate caused crisis and emergencies ranging from fires, floods, drought to global pandemic and its rippling negative effects.
$448,732 spentof which $306,373 as grants$628 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $15,924,341.
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 2022 to 2023, from $16M to $34M (+118%).
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.
81% of SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Tia Oros Peters
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 68 funders, grant income rose $390k → $22M.
37 of 164 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $313k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC raised.
From the IRS filings of SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 164 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
SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 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 SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 55% · 2019 65% · 2020 39% · 2021 14% · 2022 24% · 2023 45% — 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.
How long its funders stay
36% of SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 31 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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
SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC's funding base is broadening — from 14 funders to 68 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 5 states
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC?
- SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC (California) receives grants from 164 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,303,922 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($10,110,000). 81 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC have?
- IRS filings report 164 organizations giving $62,303,922 in grants to SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC, 81 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $10,110,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC 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.
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 164 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing