Form 990 for tax year 2024

Totals

Total revenue

$585,933

Total expenses

$498,542

Contributions and grants received

$583,829

Grants paid

$318,944

Program service revenue

$2,080

Investment income

$24

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$306,526

Total liabilities, end of year

$95

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$306,431

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$351,578

Management and general expenses

$146,964

Fundraising expenses

$0

Program service expenses (Part III)

$351,578

Program services were 70.5% 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 · 2024

• SACRED TERRITORIES: WE WORK WITH ORIGINAL NATIONS AROUND THE PLANET TO HONOR, RESPECT, AND HELP PROTECT THEIR TRADITIONAL HOMELANDS THROUGH PROJECTS AND LAND TRUSTS THAT PUT THE LAND BACK INTO THE ORIGINAL PEOPLES STEWARDSHIP. CURRENTLY, WE ARE WORKING WITH THE MAMOS OF THE KGGABA NATION OF LA SIERRA NEVADA OF SANTA MARTHA AND HAVE SECURED FOUR OF NINE LAND TRUSTS IN THEIR NAME. WORKING WITH MEMBERS OF THE LAKOTA NATION, WE ARE RESEARCHING WAYS TO BEGIN A SIMILAR LANDBACK PROGRAM WITH THEM IN THE BLACK HILLS, SOUTH DAKOTA. THE BLACK HILLS IS THE SACRED TERRITORY OF THE LAKOTA PEOPLE AND HAS BEEN TAKEN AND COMMODIFIED AT THE EXPENSE OF THE HEALTH OF THE LAND AND THE ORIGINAL PEOPLES OF THAT LAND.

  Expenses $151,102 · Grants $132,863

• SACRED CULTURES: IN WORKING WITH THESE ORIGINAL NATIONS, WE LEARN AND FOLLOW THE CULTURAL PROTOCOLS OF EACH CULTURE TO ENSURE THAT RESPECT AND UNDERSTANDING FOSTER HEALTHY RELATIONS. IN COLOMBIA, OUR ONGOING SUPPORT WITH THE KGGABA NATIONS PAGAMENTOS (SPECIFIC PRAYERS AND OFFERINGS TO THE GUARDIAN SPIRITS OF THE SACRED SITES DONE BY THE KGGABA TO HELP SUPPORT THE BALANCE OF MOTHER EARTH). ADDITIONALLY, WE HAVE HELPED THE KGGABA INITIATE A RESEARCH CENTER, A TAPIR RESTORATION PROJECT, AND GUINEA PIG FARMING PROJECT, ALL WITH THE INTENTION TO HELP PRESERVE BIODIVERSITY ON THEIR SACRED LANDS. IN THE BLACK HILLS, USA, WE SUPPORT A GARDEN PROJECT THAT GROWS FOOD FOR THE LAKOTA COMMUNITY, A SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM, AND A YEARLY SUNDANCE CEREMONY.

  Expenses $52,136 · Grants $45,872 · Revenue $2,080

• SACRED ECONOMICS: THE WISDOM EMBEDDED IN THE ORIGINAL NATIONS PEOPLE IS DEEPLY VALUABLE AND ESSENTIAL IN THE PRESERVATION AND REGENERATION OF THIS PLANET DURING THESE TIMES. OUR WORK FOCUSES ON SHIFTING ECONOMICS AWAY FROM THE COMMODITY DRIVEN PROFIT-AT-THE-EXPENSE-OF-THE-EARTH-AND-LIVING-BEINGS MODEL TO ONE WHERE OUR CHOICES AND ACTIONS ARE RATHER REGENERATIVE AND INLINE WITH THE HEALTH OF THE WHOLE.

  Expenses $125,328 · Grants $117,209

• FISCAL SPONSORSHIP: THE FOUNTAIN REGARDS FISCAL SPONSORSHIP AS AN ACT OF PRACTICING THE ORIGINAL PRINCIPLES OF RELATIONS. THE FOUNTAIN, THROUGHOUT ITS HISTORY, HAS BEEN A PLACE OF INCUBATION, A PLACE WHERE GERMINATING ORGANIZATIONS AND MOVEMENTS CAN COME TO BE HELD AS THEY GROW AND DEVELOP SO THEY CAN FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS TO GIVE A FOUNDATION FOR THEIR WORK TO GROW IN A CONSISTENT AND STRONG WAY FOR MOTHER EARTH AND ALL HER CREATION. AGREEMENTS ARE SIGNED WITH THE SPONSORED ORGANIZATION SO AS THEY GROW AND DEVELOP WE ALL STAY CONSISTENT WITH OUR LEGAL AND ETHICAL OBLIGATIONS AND MEET THE CORE PRINCIPLES THAT ARE THE FOUNDATION OF THE FOUNTAIN. THE AGREEMENTS OUTLINE THE LEVEL OF SERVICES, RECIPROCITY, AND REQUIREMENTS FOR COMPLIANCE BETWEEN THE FOUNTAIN AND THE ORGANIZATION ENTERING INTO THE FISCAL SPONSORSHIP AGREEMENT.

  Expenses $23,012 · Grants $23,000

As filed on the 2024 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

• CENTER FOR SACRED STUDIES

  $82,383

  OPERATIONAL SUPPORT

• SLIM BUTTES AGRICULTURAL DEV PROG

  $21,000

  GARDEN DEVELOPMENT

• FRIENDS OF THE AKWESASNE FREEDOM

  $10,000

  HOT LUNCH PROGRAM

• SACRED HEALING CENTER

  $5,500

  SACRED SITE WORK

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2024

Filed

13 November 2025

IRS schema version

2024v5.0

Source object

202543219349313019

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