What Sogorea Te' Land Trust does

Sogorea Te' Land Trust is a non-profit, urban Indigenous women-led land trust founded in 2015 and headquartered in Oakland, California. Its stated mission is to facilitate the return of Indigenous land to Indigenous people, operating within the broader community land trust and land-back movement. The organization works primarily through rematriation — the process of returning land title and stewardship to Indigenous nations and communities — and is situated within Bay Area Indigenous solidarity networks. Headcount is disclosed at 11–50 employees, indicating a small operational footprint.

The operating model is mission-driven rather than commercial: revenue (more accurately, operating budget) is sourced from philanthropy, grants, and community-based fundraising mechanisms rather than product or service sales. One funding event is recorded, with Moore Impact as lead in June 2021; the reported value is $0, consistent with grant-style funding that flows directly to land acquisition or programs rather than equity investment. No products, pricing models, technology platforms, or commercial offerings are described in the available source data, and the organization's primary website returned only a loading/verification page at the time of capture.

As a non-profit entity with limited disclosed financials and no commercial product surface, traditional revenue, moat, and growth benchmarks for venture-backed companies do not directly apply; the relevant measures are programmatic scale (acres rematriated, number of parcels under stewardship, beneficiary community size), and grant/donation inflows — none of which are quantified in the input data.

Name

Sogorea Te' Land Trust

Website

https://sogoreate-landtrust.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Sogorea Te' Land Trust is an Oakland-based, Indigenous women-led non-profit land trust founded in 2015 that facilitates the return (rematriation) of urban Indigenous land to Indigenous communities.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Indigenous Land Trust Services

akta.pro primary industry

Land Trusts & Protected Areas (BPAGAGAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Conservation Easements & Land Trust Services (AFAMAMAH), Affordable Housing & Community Development (Housing, Community Land Trusts) (BPAGALAC)

Keywords

• Indigenous land trust
• Land rematriation
• Community land stewardship
• Indigenous land rights
• Urban land trust

Headquarters

HQ city

Oakland

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations

Core offering

Sogorea Te' Land Trust is an urban Indigenous women-led land trust that facilitates the return of Indigenous land to Indigenous people. The organization acquires and stewards land within an urban context to support Indigenous community self-determination, cultural revitalization, and reparative land return (rematriation).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Indigenous Land Return (Rematriation) Services
• Urban Land Stewardship Program

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves2 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Trust for Public Land: A large, well-established US land conservation nonprofit that acquires and stewards land for public benefit. Highly comparable as a land trust operator, but operates at much broader scope and scale than the Indigenous-led niche Sogorea Te' occupies.
• The Nature Conservancy: One of the world's largest environmental land-conservation organizations. Relevant as a broad incumbent operating in the same land conservation space, though it has historically not centered Indigenous land return in its model.

Direct peers

• Honor the Earth: An Indigenous-led environmental and cultural nonprofit that funds and supports Indigenous land, water, and cultural revitalization efforts. Directly comparable mission-aligned Indigenous-led organization focused on Indigenous land and resource stewardship.
• Indigenous Environmental Network: A North American Indigenous-led environmental organization focused on environmental justice and protecting Indigenous lands. Highly comparable as an Indigenous-led organization working at the intersection of land stewardship, sovereignty, and environmental protection.

Regional players

• Bay Area Community Land Trust: A community land trust operating in the Bay Area with mission overlap around land stewardship for community benefit. Directly comparable geographic peer with shared CLT model, though focused on housing affordability rather than Indigenous land return.
• Peninsula Open Space Trust: A Bay Area regional land trust that protects and restores open space on the San Francisco Peninsula. Comparable as a regional land trust in adjacent geography using similar conservation/stewardship operating practices.
• Marin Agricultural Land Trust: A Bay Area regional land trust focused on preserving agricultural land. Comparable as a regional land trust operating in the same Bay Area geography with a similar acquisition-and-stewardship operating model.

Others

• Earth Island Institute: A Bay Area-based environmental nonprofit that incubates environmental projects and houses Indigenous-led initiatives. Comparable as a Bay Area environmental nonprofit ecosystem actor with overlapping network/grantmaking functions.
• Grounded Solutions Network: A national network supporting community land trusts, including Indigenous and BIPOC-led CLTs. Comparable as an ecosystem/peer-network actor that supports the CLT organizational model that Sogorea Te' utilizes.
• Sustainable Economies Law Center: A nonprofit that provides legal education, research, and support for community-owned enterprises including land trusts and cooperatives. Comparable as an enabling/ecosystem actor in the urban land stewardship space in which Sogorea Te' operates.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/sogorea-te-land-trust

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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