· Public charity
American Indian Youth Running Strong Inc
To help american indian people meet their immediate survival needs of food, water, and shelter while implementing and supporting programs designed to create opportunities for self-sufficiency and self-esteem, especially for native youth.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 46 grants below total $4,118,977 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $8,337,278 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,218,301 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k34 grants · $577k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $171k
- $250k+3 grants · $3.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRAVE HEART SOCIETY | $1,266,067 |
| PINE RIDGE RESERVATION DISTRICTS | $1,165,602 |
| OYATE TECA PROJECT | $892,463 |
| AFRAID OF BEAR AMERICAN HORSE TIOPAYE | $112,670 |
| SHE CARRIES HER HOUSE PRODUCTIONS INC | $57,888 |
| XINEWH-DING INC | $45,300 |
| HO'OLA | $40,000 |
| THROUGH PISCATAWAY EYES | $40,000 |
| EUCHEE LANGUAGE PROJECT | $30,000 |
| CHEYENNE RIVER RESERVATION DISTRICTS | $27,108 |
| SACRED HEALING CIRCLE | $25,000 |
| NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| KANSAS UNIVERSITY ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| BRAVESTATL | $24,250 |
| ROCK HILL SCHOOL DISTRICT | $20,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $5.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
54 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $327k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- AIAMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH RUNNING STRONG INC9× · 2017–2025 · $5.1M · revenue +162%
- OTOYATE TECA PROJECT INC8× · 2017–2025 · $3.6M · revenue +751% · 82% of their budget
- CRCHEYENNE RIVER YOUTH PROJECT INC5× · 2017–2021 · $213k · revenue +105%
Funded once
FRACTURED ATLAS INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +5%- RMROGERS MEMORIAL LIBRARYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +28%
- UUNKITAWAone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -28%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The american indian institute's mission is to perpetuate the ancient wisdom and cultural heritage of north america's native people and to promote a greater understanding of that wisdom amoung all people.
We're dedicated to helping Native Americans have access to a quality education, while still preserving their culture and honoring their heritage. Our mission is to provide preparatory programs for youth and financial assistance for those…
To provide education and instruction in the scholarly study and preservation of indian art to empower creativity and leadership in native arts and cultures through higher education, life-long learning and outreach.
Our mission is to strengthen indigenous leadership and cultural identity.
The naa kaani native program strives to educate and empower native communities in the pacific norhtwest, with a focus on the salish sea territory. we support cultural events, advocate for tribal rights, and aim to improve lives and…
We are a Native-led Indigenous rights organization. We are dedicated to our mission of protecting & revitalizing Indigenous cultures, empowering them in the direct application of their traditional knowledge & practices on their ancestral…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United National Indian Tribal Youth Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Academy of Art University Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 17 years old; the field is 25. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
68 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 68 of the 111 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH RUNNING STRONG INC ↗
- Who funds OYATE TECA PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds EUCHEE YUCHI LANGUAGE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CHEYENNE RIVER YOUTH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Oglala Sioux Tribe Partnership for Housing Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER MINNEAPOLIS COUNCIL OF CHURCHES ↗
- Who funds XINEWH-DING INC ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEALING CIRCLE ↗
- Who funds TRIBAL ADAPTIVE ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds Earth Guardians ↗
- Who funds SACRED PIPE RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds KEYA FOUNDATION LLC ↗
- Who funds ART MAKER LLC ↗
- Who funds A T Still University of Health Sciences ↗
- Who funds Wisdom of the Elders Incorporated ↗
- Who funds HO'OLA ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds ROGERS MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds UNKITAWA ↗
- Who funds The Kansas University Endowment Association ↗
- Who funds Virginia Capitol Foundation ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NavajoStrong ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: First Nations Development Institute · Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Inc · Common Counsel Foundation · Novo Foundation · Ndn Collective Inc · First Peoples Fund · Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company Foundation · National Urban Indian Family Coalition · National Congress of American Indians Fund · Northwest Area Foundation · American Indian College Fund · Association of Tribal Archives Libraries & Museums
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization American Indian Youth Running Strong Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The University of Tulsa — 5% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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