California · Nonprofit
WISHTOYO FOUNDATION DBA WISHTOYO CHUMASH FOUNDATION
WISHTOYO FOUNDATION DBA WISHTOYO CHUMASH FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,038,847 to it, the largest being LEONARDO DICAPRIO FOUNDATION ($5,040,406). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $9.0M
- Net assets
- $32M
What Wishtoyo Foundation Dba Wishtoyo Chumash Foundation does
Mission
Wishtoyo is place, organization, and movement inspiring people to live in harmony with our earth again. Wishtoyo serves as a "rainbow bridge" linking chumash and indigenous lifeways with the protection of natural and cultural resources, utilizing traditional ecological knowledge to provide environmental and cultural preservation and justice, education, research, and advocacy.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Environmental protection: wishtoyo's environmental protection program protects and preserves the environment and the culture of chumash and indigenous peoples through advocacy, legal action, and preservation, conservation, and restoration projects. In 2024 we continued to protect the integrity and health of waterbodies and culturally significant lands, which are vital natural resources for all inhabitants of our communities and the lifeblood of chumash culture. To protect the environment, cultural resources, and sacred places we successfully: utilized legal action by way of state and federal litigation under laws including the clean water act and endangered species act; advocated for stronger local, state and federal regulations, permits and legislation; conducted watershed monitoring and habitat restoration; mobilized continued from "environmental protection": communities to take action, and implementation of projects, including environmental restoration, at our new first nations ecological and cultural conservancy. Wishtoyo also continued to utilize its ventura coastkeeper ("vck") program. Wishtoyo founded vck in 2000 as the 54th member of the international waterkeeper alliance…
$527,384 spent45% of program spendingCultural preservation: wishtoyo's cultural preservation program protects and preserves the ancient wisdom, practices, and culture of chumash and indigenous peoples through cultural, spiritual, and educational programs and outreach. Our ongoing programs preserve, maintain, and protect chumash lifeways, culture, history, and indigenous traditional knowledge, for the chumash community, as well as the public at large. We continue to expand our projects and capacity, from our popular smuwic language apprenticeship program, traditional land tending mentorship, and basketry programs. In this way, knowledge and traditions can continue to be passed inter-generationally, and non-native communities can engage in cultural appreciation and deeper understanding. In 2024 wishtoyo continued planning, design, and continued from "planning, design, and": implementation of our new first nations cultural & ecological conservancy. In 2024 we also continued our longstanding work toward the full build out of wishtoyo's authentic chumash village in present day malibu, and the thomas fire and subsequent flooding at the village presented us with both setbacks (loss of a traditional structure and restoration…
$432,506 spent37% of program spendingChumash environmental education: wishtoyo's chumash environmental education program protects and preserves the world's natural resources through education programs and outreach. Generally, we provide cultural environmental programs to over 1,200 youth and members of the general public per year, teaching awareness of our natural resources, ancient chumash values of sustainability, and the cultural heritage of california's native peoples. Our chumash tribal marine protected areas education program and first nations summer field studies, and other education initiatives geared towards k-12 students, maintain our commitment to building supportive coastal partnerships and constituencies amongst diverse communities through outreach and education. Specifically, our education programs aim to provide continued from "aim to provide": impactful experiences for youth so they feel empowered to contribute to their communities and environment through career choices and behavior throughout their lives. We seek to remedy inequalities and disadvantages in mainstream education by focusing on underserved and intertribal students.
$202,825 spent17% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,162,715.
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 $9.6M to $25M (+165%).
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: 2022 0% · 2023 2% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
58% of WISHTOYO FOUNDATION DBA WISHTOYO CHUMASH FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Deborah Sanchez
Board chair & director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 14 funders, grant income fell $970k → $632k.
11 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 WISHTOYO FOUNDATION DBA WISHTOYO CHUMASH FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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
WISHTOYO FOUNDATION DBA WISHTOYO CHUMASH FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% 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 WISHTOYO FOUNDATION DBA WISHTOYO CHUMASH FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 87% · 2019 100% · 2020 51% · 2021 34% · 2022 38% · 2023 32% — 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
27% of WISHTOYO FOUNDATION DBA WISHTOYO CHUMASH FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
97% of WISHTOYO FOUNDATION DBA WISHTOYO CHUMASH FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
WISHTOYO FOUNDATION DBA WISHTOYO CHUMASH FOUNDATION's revenue grew 29% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
37%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WISHTOYO FOUNDATION DBA WISHTOYO CHUMASH FOUNDATION?
- WISHTOYO FOUNDATION DBA WISHTOYO CHUMASH FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,038,847 to it, the largest being LEONARDO DICAPRIO FOUNDATION ($5,040,406). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WISHTOYO FOUNDATION DBA WISHTOYO CHUMASH FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $9,038,847 in grants to WISHTOYO FOUNDATION DBA WISHTOYO CHUMASH FOUNDATION, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WISHTOYO FOUNDATION DBA WISHTOYO CHUMASH FOUNDATION?
- LEONARDO DICAPRIO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,040,406 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WISHTOYO FOUNDATION DBA WISHTOYO CHUMASH 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.
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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 2017–2024), and the filings of 42 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