Cultural Sanctuaries Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 812883508
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Santa Fe, NM, USA
- Phone
- 2129671100
- Rating
- 57
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Centers to Support the Independence of Specific Populations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $402,510
- Expenses
- $219,998
- Assets
- $298,237
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHRIS RAINER (PRESIDENT & FOUNDER)
People named in this filing
- CHRIS RAINER (PRESIDENT & FOUNDER)
- OLIVIA MCKENDRICK (DIRECTOR)
- STEVE BELL (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
At the cultural sanctuaries foundation, we work at the crossroads of conservation and culture. We focus on helping indigenous communities culture and language and protect their land. We focus too on economic realities if a family's only source of income is to cut down a tree or kill a rhino, it is unrealistic to expect them not to raise their axe or their gun. Equally if the children of traditional farmers have no option but to seek menial jobs in overcrowded cities, it is inevitable that traditional culture will erode, languages cease to be spoken and the knowledge of the land, forest and ocean fade away.
What it reported doing in 2024
In each of our cultural sanctuary projects, we work to secure legal protection for both indigenous land and culture build cultural community centres to act as a focal point for cultural empowerment and celebration conduct cultural and linguistic surveys to record vital knowledge and language promote local storytelling, photography and film-making, and foster economic opportunities for communities to stay with their land.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
MIXED - Most voting board members are independent and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 47
- Transparency & Controls: 55
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 74
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 40.5%; rating input score 41
- Program expense ratio: 74.1%; rating input score 74
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 45.3%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.36; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 46.2% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 58.4% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 40.5% of revenue deployed · 74.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $163K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 15 of 15 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 41/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.