California · Nonprofit
SOGOREA TE LAND TRUST
SOGOREA TE LAND TRUST (California) receives grants from 148 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,341,846 to it, the largest being THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($3,475,000). 84 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 148
- Grants received
- $22M
- Net assets
- $54M
What Sogorea Te Land Trust does
Mission
Sogorea te' land trust is an urban indigenous women-led land trust based in the san francisco bay area that facilitates the return of indigenous land to indgenous people. Through the practices of rematriation, cultural revitalization, and land restoration, sogorea te' calls on native and non-native peoples to heal and transform the legacies of colonization,genocide, and patriarchy and to do the work our ancestors and future generations are calling us to do.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Sogorea te' land trust tended seven land sites in huchiun (the east bay), cultivating native traditional plants, growing fruits and vegetables, and designing and building customized structures for tools, supplies and our emergency resiliency hub, himmetka. Sogorea te' also produced a chochenyo language workshop series for the lisjan ohlone community, strengthening the network, teaching new language learners and distributing resources including a chochenyo dictionary and study guides. Sogorea te' staff launched our mitiini numma rematriation youth program and presented dozens of public presentations, talks and workshops to educate the general public about lisjan ohlone history and culture, indigenous sovereignty and rematriation.
$1,655,556 spentof which $155,332 as grants$71,525 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,655,556.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $9.7M to $39M (+309%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2019 0% · 2020 2% · 2024 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of SOGOREA TE LAND TRUST’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
Melissa Nelson
Chair Person
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 71 funders, grant income rose $2k → $4.5M.
27 of 148 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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: $19M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Kataly Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money SOGOREA TE LAND TRUST raised.
From the IRS filings of SOGOREA TE LAND TRUST’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 148 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
SOGOREA TE LAND TRUST has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
61% 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 SOGOREA TE LAND TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 42% · 2021 34% · 2022 13% · 2023 22% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of SOGOREA TE LAND TRUST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
54% of SOGOREA TE LAND TRUST's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $10M that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
SOGOREA TE LAND TRUST runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 329 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 329 environment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like SOGOREA TE LAND TRUST
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 SOGOREA TE LAND TRUST: 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 SOGOREA TE LAND TRUST?
- SOGOREA TE LAND TRUST (California) receives grants from 148 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,341,846 to it, the largest being THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($3,475,000). 84 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SOGOREA TE LAND TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 148 organizations giving $22,341,846 in grants to SOGOREA TE LAND TRUST, 84 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOGOREA TE LAND TRUST?
- THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,475,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOGOREA TE LAND TRUST 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 148 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