Form 990 for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$1,002,310

Total expenses

$989,060

Contributions and grants received

$905,926

Grants paid

$34,736

Program service revenue

$88,074

Investment income

$8,310

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$2,220,357

Total liabilities, end of year

$676,409

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$1,543,948

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$716,320

Management and general expenses

$272,740

Fundraising expenses

$0

Program service expenses (Part III)

$716,320

Program services were 72.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2023

• In 2023, the Organization significantly expanded on its youth programming and culturally rooted wellness initiatives. It also leaned into capital improvement to address some long overdue repairs and updates to its 7th Street building and maintained and expanded on the artist and culture bearer support provided.Indigenous Roots also fulfills their mission by focusing its efforts in the following primary service areas: Culture Bearers :Culture Bearers practice intergenerational lifeways and living, evolving cultural art practices that educate, exchange, and share in order to preserve ancestral knowledge. In this work, Culture Bearers hold a direct throughline from ancestors and teachers and center sharing their practice with youth. The role of a culture bearer is particularly important within ancestral cultures undergoing transition or experiencing threat from outside and dominating culture(s). Culture Bearers accept a responsibility to share ancestral and cultural knowledge. The practice of being a Culture Bearer is distinct from other individual art practices because the practice is a full life tradition (not separate) and includes intergenerational transmission of learning. While we honor the role of guests within lineages, the intent of this opportunity is to first resource individuals and cultures that are from the cultural and heritage lineage that they practice. Culture Bearers recognize a need in the community for reconnection with ancestral teachings, a need of Culture Bearers for space. Additionally, funding and supportive structures share their teachings and a need to connect across cultures. The Organization will continue to build the Culture Bearer Exchange Network. This network will be centered around processing decolonization with our participants to make space for intercultural, intergenerational, and intertribal learning and connection to encourage a flourishing exchange of traditional arts and cultural practices extending far beyond our neighborhood and city.

  Expenses $716,320 · Grants $34,736 · Revenue $88,074

• Youth-Led and Youth-Centered Programming:Indigenous Roots is home to the Interthrival Indigenous Youth Coalition (IIYC) which is a youth council that acts as the driving force behind the representation of youth voice in our space. As such, the Organization has a variety of youth-centered programming and events taking place. At the core of their youth work is Roots Cafe - a youth led, creative economy development program. Roots Cafe not only offers a safe environment to develop employment skills, but provides a space for youth to form positive adult relationships, connect with their cultural identity and connect

• Artist and Business Incubation:Indigenous Roots IRoots is a coalition of artists, culture bearers, business owners, cultural groups and organizations dedicated to building, supporting and cultivating opportunities for and with Brown, Black, Native and Indigenous Peoples through cultural arts and activism. As such, they lend their space, resources and networks to emerging BIPOC artists, culture bearers and small business owners seeking to establish themselves. They do this for example by hosting 8-10 emerging artists gallery exhibitions throughout the year, sharing storefront space with small businesses, grant writing assistance and more. Their collective partners include BLCK Press, City Mischief, Indigenous Lotus, Videos de Sancho, Karaya Guey, Kalpulli Yaocenoxtli, Conferencia Alianza Latinx, Filipinx for Immigrant Rights and Racial Justice in Minnesota, Esencia Mexicana, Cypher Side and a dozen other artists and groups and the Organization acts as fiscal sponsor for a large variety of smaller organizations.

• Community Responsive Programming, Advocacy and Special Events:Beyond its regular programming, Indigenous Roots receives a lot of requests for partner- and allyship for events, social justice and community related projects, events and more. As they continually aim to meet the ever changing needs of a widely diverse community, their programming shifts throughout the years, including a variety or staple events that activate community and provide opportunities for engagement with large audiences.In this work, they are often leveraging their vast network of community partners as well as being called on for policy work, advocacy on various level and engage in policy work that pushes for adequate representation and funding for core issues identified within the communities they serve.

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2023

Filed

14 November 2024

IRS schema version

2023v5.1

Source object

202443199349305704

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