Honor the Earth
“Create awareness and support for Native environmental issues.”
The work
What they do
Indigenous environmental advocacy and grant-making. Works on tribal-federal land co-management, pipeline opposition, and Native conservation leadership.
Every year they sign one sentence and file it with the federal government: “HONOR THE EARTH IS COMMITTED TO PROTECTING THE LIFEWAYS AND SOVEREIGNTY OF OUR INDIGENOUS RELATIVES ACROSS MOTHER EARTH. WE DO THIS BY INVESTING IN OUR COMMUNITIES AND A NEW GENERATION OF ORGANIZERS THROUGH CAMPAIGNS, RESEARCH, TRAINING, RECLAIMING OUR NARRATIVE, AND PROVIDING CAPACITY SUPPORT IN SERVICE OF ALL LAND AND LIFE.”
Where the money went, FY2025
The work, and what it cost
The work as filed
$2.1MCAPACITY SUPPORT FOR INDIGENOUS-LED, GRASSROOTS ORGANIZATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS TO PRESERVE CULTURE, PROTECT/RECLAIM INDIGENOUS LANDS AND COMMUNITIES.
Including $267,413 granted onward, most of it $40,000 to Photographers Without Borders Inc.
Read it as they filed it
CAPACITY SUPPORT FOR INDIGENOUS-LED, GRASSROOTS ORGANIZATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS TO PRESERVE CULTURE, PROTECT/RECLAIM INDIGENOUS LANDS AND COMMUNITIES.
IRS Form 990 Part III, fiscal year 2025, signed under penalty of perjury.
Guarding the water
$411KENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY, ORGANIZING AND RESEARCH FOR THE PRESERVATION OF CLEAN WATER, LAND, AIR, AND HEALTHY COMMUNITIES.
Including $27,632 granted onward.
Read it as they filed it
ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY, ORGANIZING AND RESEARCH FOR THE PRESERVATION OF CLEAN WATER, LAND, AIR, AND HEALTHY COMMUNITIES.
IRS Form 990 Part III, fiscal year 2025, signed under penalty of perjury.
Follow the dollar
56 cents of every dollar goes to the work
One year’s split is a snapshot, not a verdict. Splits swing hard with land deals, grants, and campaign timing. The trend line below says more than any single year.
Backed on the record by William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, latest filing FY22.
$2,484,261 programs, $1,670,704 management, $290,027 fundraising. Form 990, FY2025.
The people
Who does the work
Honesty note: leadership comes from each year’s federal filing, so it can run a year behind. Orgs that claim their page can update it same-day. Work at Honor the Earth? Claim this page.
Those 6 volunteers are people who decided this ground was theirs to defend. If Honor the Earth is fighting for your place too, the matchmaker will find your way in.
Make it 7The filings
9 years of filings
9 years of filings
Total revenue by fiscal year, as filed. Point at the line for any year.
| Year | Revenue |
|---|---|
| 2015 | $621,105 |
| 2016 | $851,052 |
| 2017 | $3,041,130 |
| 2018 | $2,738,189 |
| 2019 | $1,882,333 |
| 2020 | $2,690,173 |
| 2021 | $5,596,199 |
| 2023 | $6,228,420 |
| 2025 | $2,520,162 |
From $621K in 2015 to $2.5M in FY25, across 9 public filings. The 2023 peak of $6.2M reads like one-time gifts, so trust the line, not the peak.
Fights alongside Center for Biological Diversity (1 shared case), Earthjustice (1 shared case), Friends of the Earth (1 shared case), Native American Rights Fund (1 shared case) and Sierra Club (1 shared case). Same case, same side, on the federal docket.
Across the 5 states where they work, the congressional delegations average 33 of 100 on public lands. See the full scorecard
Ways in
How to help
56 cents of your dollar goes straight to the work above.
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33 years on the ground, 6 volunteers, 56 cents of every dollar on the line. That is who is holding it. There is room for one more.