Mamacocha Ancestral Memory Institute Inc
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What it says it does
MAMI facilitates space to reconnect to the values and practices of holistic earth stewardship. MAMI maintains land sanctuary space, offers residencies, and creates cultural programming anchored in reciprocity, right-relationship with all living beings, and being in a co-creative relationship with the natural world.
- Income
- $4.3 million
- Spending
- $591,265
- Employees
- 2
- Volunteers
- 10
- Highest pay
- $59,136, president
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Financial health
We do not score finances when yearly spending is very small or the return has too little detail. The ratios stop meaning much at that size.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Governance
This return does not answer enough of the governance questions to score.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (1)
- $436,199 spent. Sustained our central programmatic offering: place-based residency, providing rest, creative incubation, and healing support to participants while deepening our commitment to land stewardship, arts practice, and ancestral memory work. Hosted inaugural learning retreat centering Afro-diasporic water memory, offering participants immersive healing experiences that expand MAMIs culturally grounded programming. Strengthened MAMIs creative and cultural programming by welcoming visionary artists Designed a forthcoming fellowship initiative to be implemented in 2025 that creates a deepening opportunity for previous residents to continue to engage with land stewardship and curation, furthering MAMIs mission to center rest, land-stewardship, and Afro-Indigenous spatial practices. whose praxis aligns with our mission to uplift Afro-Indigenous futures, arts, and land-based remembrance.Expanded access to MAMIs healing and creative resources by launching a remote residency model, allowing participants who cannot travel to engage with MAMIs curriculum, mentorship while growing MAMIs relational network. Upgraded interior and exterior spaces at both campuses to support multi-modal learning, healing, and artistic practice. Designed a forthcoming fellowship initiative to be implemented in 2025 that creates a deepening opportunity for previous residents to continue to engage with land stewardship and curation, furthering MAMIs mission to center rest, land-stewardship, and Afro-Indigenous spatial practices.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Caution.
The IRS master file records contributions to this 501(c)(4) social welfare organization as not deductible.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending December 2024.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since February 2023.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated October 21, 2026.
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