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AMAH MUTSUN LAND TRUST

EIN 32-0447436 SANTA CRUZ, CA

Revenue 2024
$2,946,093
Expenses 2024
$1,238,999

Program services were 67.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C19
Classification
1000
Street
2460 17TH AVE 1019

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

See Schedule O.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Our mission is to restore, protect, and steward the traditional lands of the Amah Mutsun people. To train current and future Amah Mutsun generations in the stewardship of native plants, medicines, animals, waterways, and lands. [Continued on Schedule O]

  • Amah Mutsun Land Trust (AMLT) partners with federal land agencies, the state of California, land trusts, conservation groups, nonprofits, foundations, and private donors to identify, nurture, and maintain traditional Amah Mutsun lands. These partnerships work to restore these lands to the pre-contact conditions achieved by traditional native stewardship practices over many thousands of years. AMLT also identifies traditional and sacred sites, works to determine the best land management practices (including prescribed fire/burn management techniques and traditional/ancestral flora maintenance ways) to restore traditional lands and waterways to a healthy, sustainable condition.

    Expenses $834,215 · Revenue $2,029

  • The Amah Mutsun Land Trust (AMLT) is a native-led non-profit organization, established by the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band in 2014 to achieve the following vision: -Conserve and restore indigenous cultural and natural resources within the traditional territories of indigenous Mutsun and Awaswas peoples.-Steward our lands and waters; combining traditional resource and environmental management with contemporary approaches-ensuring a resilient future for all inhabitants of Popeloutchom and fulfilling our obligation to creator.-Research and teach the ways of nature-returning to the path of traditional ecological knowledge that our ancestors followed for thousands of years.

  • AMLT has 5 major programs which all work toward the vision of restoring the Amah Mutsun people as environmental stewards of our ancestral territory. These programs include:-The native stewardship corps, a work training and cultural relearning program for Amah Mutsun Tribal Band members. The native stewards are the boots on the ground, implementing the research, conservation, education, and indigenous stewardship work to which AMLT is committed.-The coastal and ocean stewardship program, whic collaborates with agencies, institutions, and other California Indian tribes to restore Amah Mutsun stewardship of coastal resources.(Continued on Schedule O)

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Athena Hernandez

    In House Counsel

    Total calculated
    $102,487
    From this org
    $101,097
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $1,390
    Hours/week
    40

  • Valentin Lopez

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    18

  • Julie Pineida

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    12

  • Ed Ketchum

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    12

  • Catherine Luna

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Mille Bravo-Garris

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Steve Abbors

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Amanda Serenyi

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Robert Perlmutter

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Susan True

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Guillermo Rodriguez

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,946,093
    Expenses
    $1,238,999
    Contributions
    $2,907,370
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $6,025,944
    Expenses
    $1,812,941
    Contributions
    $5,869,456
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $5,707,199
    Expenses
    $1,775,909
    Contributions
    $5,546,712
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,925,653
    Expenses
    $1,551,048
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,463,237

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,925,653
    Expenses
    $1,548,335
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,465,950

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,555,480
    Expenses
    $903,182
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,031,061

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $875,439
    Expenses
    $736,396
    Assets (EOY)
    $382,218

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $545,374
    Expenses
    $473,312
    Assets (EOY)
    $230,245

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $259,808
    Expenses
    $277,951
    Assets (EOY)
    $142,093

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

  • Exemption revoked 15 May 2017, reinstated 15 May 2017.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.