California · Nonprofit
The Cultural ConservancySacred Land Foundation
The Cultural ConservancySacred Land Foundation (California) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,736,172 to it, the largest being RSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC ($2,817,134). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.0M
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $9.7M
- Net assets
- $3.5M
What The Cultural ConservancySacred Land Foundation does
Mission
We are a Native-led Indigenous rights organization. We are dedicated to our mission of protecting & revitalizing Indigenous cultures, empowering them in the direct application of their traditional knowledge & practices on their ancestral lands.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
2024 saw successful implementation of our land project, programs & grantmaking work, including our Native Foodways work, Indigenous Media & our Mino-Niibi Fund. Our land project is committed to ecological restoration, traditional land tending, and intergenerational education, as well as food justice and seed sovereignty. Native Foodways is a holistic program dedicated to improving the eco-cultural health & well-being of Indigenous communities by promoting traditional food cultures, Indigenous farming & Indigenous nutrition. Our Native Media program creates spaces & resources for accessing, documenting, producing & distributing Native-produced media. The Mino-Niibi Fund promotes the revitalization of Indigenous cultures, knowledges, practices & landscapes - in the Americas & the Pacific - through respectful grant partnerships with Indigenous-led organizations.
$1,565,448 spent$51,953 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,565,448.
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 2018 to 2019, from $678k to $2.5M (+262%).
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: 2017 2% · 2018 13% · 2021 10% · 2022 5% · 2023 8% · 2024 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of The Cultural ConservancySacred Land Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Sara Moncada
CEO
Board chair
Melissa Nelson
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $334k → $1.5M.
16 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 The Cultural ConservancySacred Land Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 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
The Cultural ConservancySacred Land Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
71% 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 The Cultural ConservancySacred Land Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 67% · 2019 48% · 2020 53% · 2021 29% · 2022 42% · 2023 21% — 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
36% of The Cultural ConservancySacred Land Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
69% of The Cultural ConservancySacred Land Foundation'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 $3.1M that is directly attributable, 57% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.7M 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
The Cultural ConservancySacred Land Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding The Cultural ConservancySacred Land Foundation receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.3M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.2M
- National Endowment for the Arts$50k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like The Cultural ConservancySacred Land Foundation
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
62%
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 The Cultural ConservancySacred Land Foundation: 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 The Cultural ConservancySacred Land Foundation?
- The Cultural ConservancySacred Land Foundation (California) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,736,172 to it, the largest being RSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC ($2,817,134). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does The Cultural ConservancySacred Land Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $9,736,172 in grants to The Cultural ConservancySacred Land Foundation, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Cultural ConservancySacred Land Foundation?
- RSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,817,134 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Cultural ConservancySacred Land Foundation 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 46 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