California · Nonprofit
TONGVA TARAXAT PAXAAVXA CONSERVANCY
TONGVA TARAXAT PAXAAVXA CONSERVANCY (California) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,981,195 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($506,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $4.0M
- Net assets
- $5.9M
What Tongva Taraxat Paxaavxa Conservancy does
Mission
Protect, preserve, culturally revitalize and foster tongva/gabrieleno traditions in order to provide for the future generations of tongva/gabrieleno decedents. To encourage and implement the revitalization of material and nonmateriel aspects of tongva/gabrieleno culture with focus on land and maritime culture, language, arts, dance and oral histories.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The conservancy restores tongva homelands through removal of invasive species and replanting of native plants. Efforts focus on ecological balance, cultural preservation, and sustainable habitat for indigenous flora and fauna.
$422,072 spent$2,500 earned by the program98% of program spendingProvides essential support to tongva and other communities in need by distributing food, water, and basic necessities during the holidays and throughout the year. This program addresses urgent needs and fosters resilience and cultural connection.
$9,890 spent2% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $431,962.
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.
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 $2.5M to $5.1M (+102%).
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: 2024 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 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
Maryellen Gleason
Interim exec director (as of 11/24)
Board chair
Wallace Cleaves
Board president
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $330k → $2.0M.
13 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 TONGVA TARAXAT PAXAAVXA CONSERVANCY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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
TONGVA TARAXAT PAXAAVXA CONSERVANCY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% 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
72% 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 TONGVA TARAXAT PAXAAVXA CONSERVANCY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 24% · 2023 20% — 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
60% of TONGVA TARAXAT PAXAAVXA CONSERVANCY'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 $1.6M that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 TONGVA TARAXAT PAXAAVXA CONSERVANCY
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
43% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TONGVA TARAXAT PAXAAVXA CONSERVANCY: 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 TONGVA TARAXAT PAXAAVXA CONSERVANCY?
- TONGVA TARAXAT PAXAAVXA CONSERVANCY (California) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,981,195 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($506,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TONGVA TARAXAT PAXAAVXA CONSERVANCY have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $3,981,195 in grants to TONGVA TARAXAT PAXAAVXA CONSERVANCY, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TONGVA TARAXAT PAXAAVXA CONSERVANCY?
- CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $506,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TONGVA TARAXAT PAXAAVXA CONSERVANCY 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 FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 31 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