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SACRED DEFENSE FUND

EIN 99-2707481 SANTA FE, NM

Revenue 2024
$741,748
Expenses 2024
$394,856

Program services were 69.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
R01
Classification
1278
Street
PO BOX 27

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

SACRED DEFENSE FUND STANDS WITH INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES TO PROTECT THEIR SOVEREIGNTY, LANDS, AND CULTURAL HERITAGE. IN THE SPIRIT AND COMMUNITY SHOWN AT STANDING ROCK IN 2016 AND BEYOND, WE WORK TO AMPLIFY INDIGENOUS VOICES AND PROTECT RIGHTS THROUGH GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING, IMPACTFUL STORYTELLING, AND ROBUST LEGAL ACTION.

  • DURING THE YEAR, SACRED DEFENSE FUND SPONSORED SOVERIEGN BODIES INSTITUTE, A RESEARCH AND ADVOCACY INITIATIVE ADDRESSING GENDER-BASED AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE AGAINST INDIGENOUS PEOPLE. THE ORGANIZATION EXERCISED DISCRETION AND CONTROL OVER ALL FUNDS.

    Expenses $126,175 · Revenue $17,106

  • DURING THE YEAR, SACRED DEFENSE FUND SPONSORED OPERATION OLIVE BRANCH WHICH IS INVOLVED IN INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN AID EFFORTS. THE ORGANIZATION EXERCISED DISCRETION AND CONTROL OVER ALL FUNDS.

    Expenses $119,688 · Grants $88,334 · Revenue $31,358

  • FACILITATE NATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH LEADERSHIP TRAINING, IN THE AREAS OF MEDIA, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, AND ARTS.

    Expenses $26,019

  • SUPPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION ON BEHALF OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURE AND CIVIL RIGHTS. PROVIDE PRO BONO LEGAL SERVICES TO NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURAL PRACTITIONERS.

    Expenses $1,455 · Revenue $3,875

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.

  • Chase Iron Eyes

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $6,962
    From this org
    $6,962
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Jo Povi Romero

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Raoul Max Trujillo

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Brayden Sonny White

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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
    $741,748
    Expenses
    $394,856
    Contributions
    $688,976
    Grants paid
    $88,333

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.

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

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.