THE SIERRA FUND

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

C30

Classification

2100

Street

411 GRASS VALLEY HWY

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

• New Program: the Second Annual Sierra Nevada Tribal Summit TSF hosted the second annual Sierra Nevada Tribal Summit on October 7-9, 2024 at the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians facility, the Red Hawk Casino and Resort. Our Planning Circle included the Colfax-Todds Vally Consolidated Tribe, the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians Todds Valley Miwok Maidu Cultural Foundation, and the University of California, Davis - Institute of the Environment. The three-day gathering focused on Indigenous Guardianship brought more than 120 Tribal representing 20+ Tribal communities in the Sierra Nevada Region to discuss topics of Traditional knowledge systems, and how government policies and laws should and could reflect an Indigenous, earth-centered worldview. This Summit included an ally day, where we invited 12+ California and agency leaders and representatives to envision ethical spaces to engage with Tribal communities. The Summit Gathering resulted in the formation of four program areas: Land and Water Guardianship, Emergency Preparedness and Climate Adaptation, Cultural Ecologies, and the continued annual convening of the Sierra Nevada Tribal Summit.

  Expenses $1,447,814 · Revenue $237,260

• New Program: Land and Water Guardianship The Sierra Fund continued the work between TSF and the California Heritage: Indigenous Research Project (CHIRP, the nonprofit of the Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribe) continuing improvements on CHIRPs 32-acre property along Deer Creek. Through the Sierra Institute funding, TSF also coordinated with the Colfax-Todds Valley Consolidated Tribe and Todds Valley Miwok Maidu Cultural Foundation to improve the forest health of BLM property in Foresthill and works towards co-management of this important property associated with Tribal history and tradition. This work is ongoing. At the Tribal Summit, TSF created a Land and Water Guardianship Working Group. TSF staff also supported a Cooperator Agreement with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that supported ecological restoration work by the Maidu Summit Consortium and other consultants.

• New Program: Emergency Preparedness and Climate Adaptation At the fall Tribal Summit, TFS created the Emergency Preparedness and Climate Adaptation working group. This program supports the leadership of Tribal Nations in advancing emergency preparedness and climate resilience across the Sierra Nevada, focusing on the reintroduction of cultural burning (good fire) and the safety and wellbeing of Tribal communities. TSF worked to identify funding sources to ensure that regional Tribes have the tools, platforms, and partnerships needed to implement Indigenous wisdom at scale. TSF particularly supports GIS-based planning, culturally grounded hazard mitigation strategies, and the development of emergency operations infrastructure.

• New Program: Cultural Ecologies Through the Cultural Ecologies Program TSF staff work closely with Tribes to identify existing and new funding to protect, restore, and share Indigenous ways of knowing and being. Our goals are to: Promote the value and wisdom of Traditional Knowledge in conservation, climate adaptation, and cultural healing. Advance Tribal Self-Determination through community-led programming, capacity building, and policy advocacy Revitalize Native Language Diversity by supporting immersion, curriculum development, and language-in-place initiatives. Advance Food Sovereignty through partnerships that protect native plants, traditional food systems, and ceremonial harvests. Support an Intergenerational Movement by centering Elders, youth, and cultural mentors as the stewards of this work.

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

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

  $1,556,338

  Expenses

  $1,581,139

  Contributions

  $1,299,699

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $1,534,171

  Expenses

  $1,428,129

  Contributions

  $1,488,098

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $790,823

  Expenses

  $940,501

  Contributions

  $734,253

  Grants paid

  $20,000

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

  $1,012,456

  Expenses

  $944,422

  Assets (EOY)

  $777,146

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,122,679

  Expenses

  $930,144

  Assets (EOY)

  $577,553

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,065,545

  Expenses

  $1,138,054

  Assets (EOY)

  $528,266

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,299,402

  Expenses

  $1,320,720

  Assets (EOY)

  $798,778

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,155,564

  Expenses

  $3,105,953

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,670,494

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,778,257

  Expenses

  $1,804,555

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,170,049

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,149,525

  Expenses

  $1,351,660

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,827,928

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

• Community Environmental Advoc

  $8,000

  2022

• Green Corps

  $6,000

  2022

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• UNITED STATES ENDOWMENT FORFORESTRY AND COMMUNITIES INC

  $350,342

  2023 · Carbon

• UNITED STATES ENDOWMENT FORFORESTRY AND COMMUNITIES INC

  $181,011

  2024 · Carbon

• RESOURCES LEGACY FUND

  $110,000

  2024 · LAND OR MARINE CONSERVATION, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND/OR ENVIRONMENTAL EQUITY AND JUSTICE

• UNITED STATES ENDOWMENT FORFORESTRY AND COMMUNITIES INC

  $99,935

  2022 · RESTORATION FUELS

• ROCKY MOUNTAIN ELK FOUNDATION INC

  $69,999

  2022 · HABITAT ENHANCEMENT

• RESOURCES LEGACY FUND

  $55,000

  2022 · LAND OR MARINE CONSERVATION, PROMOTION OF EDUCATION AND/OR HEALTHY COMMUNITIES

• FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE

  $50,000

  2024 · ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

• RESOURCES LEGACY FUND

  $40,000

  2023 · LAND OR MARINE CONSERVATION, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND/OR ENVIRON. EQUITY AND JUSTICE.

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