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Honor the Earth

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Honor the Earth, an Indigenous-led advocacy and grantmaking organization based in Lame Deer, Montana, names Land Back as its guiding campaign.

Kind
501(c)(3) Indigenous-led advocacy/regrant organization
Native-led
yes-self-described
Works with
Anishinaabe and other nations; Winona LaDuke co-founded 1993not yet checked against a source
Region
Lame Deer, MT per ProPublica (earlier MN base); national
Focus
Pipeline resistance, sovereignty, energy justice; not primarily a land-return organization
Registry
EIN 45-4714238 (ProPublica; exempt Aug 2015; FY2025 filed May 2026; revenue about $2.5M); Charity Navigator 2/4 stars

What happened

Honor the Earth describes itself as "an Indigenous-led organization" working to resist exploitation and prepare future generations of leadership. Its website lists a post office box in Lame Deer, Montana. ProPublica lists the organization in Colstrip, Montana, under EIN 45-4714238, with tax exemption issued in August 2015. Its home page announces a new board of directors and a new executive director, Krystal Two Bulls.

Its mission page says it protects the lifeways and sovereignty of Indigenous relatives through campaigns, research, training and capacity support. Its campaigns page calls Land Back its "North Star" and defines it as "the political movement of Indigenous Peoples reclaiming sovereignty over homelands from colonial states." The page also lists campaigns against what it calls green colonialism and about data centers.

Honor the Earth works through advocacy, organizing and support to grassroots groups. Its pages describe no land bought or returned by the organization itself.

On finances, ProPublica shows revenue of $2,520,162 and expenses of $4,444,992 for the fiscal year ending June 2025, a net loss of about $1.9 million. Revenue for fiscal 2024 was $3,654,595 and for fiscal 2023, $6,228,420. A donor can weigh those figures alongside the leadership change the organization announces on its home page.

Good to know. An advocacy and grantmaking group that holds no returned land. It reported a net loss of about $1.9 million for the year ending June 2025, alongside a recent leadership change.

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What the sources say, and how this was checked

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  1. Honor the Earth is an Indigenous-led organizationHonor the Earth - Home
  2. Land Back is the political movement of Indigenous Peoples reclaiming sovereignty over homelands from colonial states.Honor the Earth - Campaigns
  3. A Message from Honor the Earth’s New Executive Director, Krystal Two BullsHonor the Earth - Home
  4. Revenue $2,520,162 Expenses $4,444,992 Net Income -$1,924,830ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer - Honor The Earth
  5. Tax exemption issued: Aug. 2015ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer - Honor The Earth

Research notes. Advocacy and grantmaking; not a land-return holder. Self-described Indigenous-led; board and staff affiliations were not read. Finances: net loss about $1.9 million in FY2025 per ProPublica; a Charity Navigator rating noted in the record (2 of 4 stars) was not re-checked. The 2015 exemption date suggests a successor entity to an earlier organization; this record did not confirm that.

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  1. honorearth.org/self-description
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Site describes itself as 'Indigenous-led'. The EIN's 2015 ruling year suggests a successor entity to the 1993 organization; HQ listed as Colstrip/Lame Deer MT. ProPublica summary shows a FY2025 net loss of about $1.9M. Site shows no EIN. List as adjacent (not land-return) and note the 2/4 rating.
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