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Akiing 8th Fire

To further the culturally and ecologically sustainable practices of the anishinaabeg. To do any and all other acts, and exercise all rights and powers which may be reasonable necessary, incidental, desirable or expedient in the accomplishment of such purpose.

$515k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Itemized grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$250k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$250,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$250,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$3.6M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Akiing 8th Fire funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving1$250k0%
FY20232$200k50%
FY20211$365kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$715kArts & Culture$100k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Anishinaabe Agriculture Institute$714,628353%
Giiwedinong Museum and Cultural Center of the Nort$100,0002n/a

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About Akiing 8th Fire

How much does Akiing 8th Fire give?
Akiing 8th Fire reported 1 itemized grants totaling $250,000, out of $515,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Akiing 8th Fire fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (88%), Arts & Culture (12%).
Who are Akiing 8th Fire's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Anishinaabe Agriculture Institute ($715k), Giiwedinong Museum and Cultural Center of the Nort ($100k).
Does Akiing 8th Fire fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Akiing 8th Fire based?
Akiing 8th Fire is based in MN.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 2 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $336k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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