Virginia · 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.
- $8.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 46
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $4.1M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,266,067
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 34
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 22
- Total assets, FY2025
- $10M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations American Indian Youth Running Strong Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $212k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 46 | $4.1M | 46% |
| FY2024 | 34 | $3.6M | 29% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $3.0M | 31% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $2.5M | 40% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $2.0M | 38% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $1.2M | 16% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $1.2M | 44% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $1.1M | 40% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pine Ridge Reservation Districts | $6,450,933 | 9 | n/a |
| American Indian Youth Running Strong Inc | $5,093,673 | 9 | 14% |
| Oyate Teca Project Inc | $3,600,485 | 8 | 82% |
| Afraid of Bear - American Horse Tiospaye | $352,970 | 5 | n/a |
| Slim Buttes Agricultural Development Program | $249,358 | 9 | n/a |
| Euchee Yuchi Language Project Inc | $237,400 | 9 | 1% |
| Cheyenne River Youth Project Inc | $213,230 | 5 | 5% |
| Oglala Sioux Tribe Partnership for Housing Inc | $160,485 | 3 | n/a |
| Greater Minneapolis Council of Churches | $160,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Xinewh-Ding Inc | $142,106 | 2 | 31% |
Show all 109 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pine Ridge Reservation Districts | $6,450,933 | 9 | n/a |
| American Indian Youth Running Strong Inc | $5,093,673 | 9 | 14% |
| Oyate Teca Project Inc | $3,600,485 | 8 | 82% |
| Afraid of Bear - American Horse Tiospaye | $352,970 | 5 | n/a |
| Slim Buttes Agricultural Development Program | $249,358 | 9 | n/a |
| Euchee Yuchi Language Project Inc | $237,400 | 9 | 1% |
| Cheyenne River Youth Project Inc | $213,230 | 5 | 5% |
| Oglala Sioux Tribe Partnership for Housing Inc | $160,485 | 3 | n/a |
| Greater Minneapolis Council of Churches | $160,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Xinewh-Ding Inc | $142,106 | 2 | 31% |
| The Navajo Nation | $121,533 | 2 | n/a |
| Sacred Healing Circle | $111,000 | 5 | 42% |
| Nebo School District | $97,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Hoopa Valley Indian Tribe | $95,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Today We Follow Tomorrow We Lead | $72,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Earth Guardians | $70,000 | 3 | 9% |
| Tribal Adaptive Organization | $70,000 | 4 | 8% |
| Sacred Pipe Resource Center | $66,500 | 6 | 15% |
| Keya Foundation LLC | $62,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Art Maker LLC | $60,105 | 3 | 24% |
| Schh Productions Inc | $57,888 | 1 | n/a |
| A T Still University of Health Sciences | $55,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Catawba Cultural Preservation Project | $55,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Through Piscataway Eyes Tpe Inc | $55,000 | 3 | n/a |
| The Kansas University Endowment Association | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Interfaith Action of Greater Saint Paul | $50,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Fractured Atlas Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Unkitawa | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| University of Wisconsin | $50,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Ho'Ola | $50,000 | 2 | 99% |
| Wisdom of the Elders Incorporated | $50,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Rogers Memorial Library | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Bridge Foundation | $45,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Virginia Capitol Foundation | $41,535 | 1 | 18% |
| Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe | $40,034 | 3 | n/a |
| Through Piscataway Eyes | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Northern Arizona University Foundation | $35,000 | 2 | 0% |
| NavajoStrong | $35,000 | 2 | 27% |
| St John the Evangelist Latrobe | $30,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Mendocino Lake Cc District | $30,000 | 3 | n/a |
| University of Nebraska Foundation | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Local Environmental Action Demanded Agency Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Kohala Unupa'A | $30,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Mica Group Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 3% |
| American Indian Science and Engineering Society | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| North Kohala Community Resource Center | $27,600 | 4 | 2% |
| Indian Youth of America Inc | $27,500 | 4 | 4% |
| Sacred Healing Circle | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bravestatl | $24,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Native American Journalists Association | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Rock Hill Schools | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Northern Arizona Pride Association | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Indigenous Health and Wellness Solutions | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Ekowah Coffee | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Indigenous Peoples Council On Biocolonialism | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| American Indian Artists Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 11% |
| Society of American Indian Dentist Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Remember the Removal Legacy Association | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Sierra Endurance Sports Corporation | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Round Valley Unified School District | $19,537 | 2 | n/a |
| The Cedar Fund | $17,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Pine Ridge Girls School Inc | $16,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Takini School | $15,470 | 8 | n/a |
| Earth Law Center | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wankaya Gluwintanyan Otipi | $15,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Native American Council of Tribes Inc | $13,725 | 4 | n/a |
| United National Indian Tribal Youth Inc | $12,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Lakota Council of Tribes Inc | $12,000 | 2 | n/a |
| North Eastern Band of Cherokee | $12,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Academy of Art University Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Nation Ford Land Trust | $10,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Fast Blackfeet | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Alpine School District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Native Hope Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Citizens Campaign Fund for the Environment Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| White Buffalo Recovery | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| America's Toothfairy National Children's Oral Health Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Muscogee (Creek) Nation | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Raices Collab | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| National Indigenous Circle | $10,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Sioux Falls School District #49-5 | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The Bebela Project Inc | $10,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Vision Maker Media | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sicangu Oyate Ho Inc Dba St Francis Indian School | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Evergreen State College Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Tlingit and Haida Indians of Alaska-Washington Chapter | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wampum Consulting Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 14% |
| First Alaskans Institute | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Cherokee Nation Education Corporation | $10,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Lindy Waters III Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Haskell Indian Nations University | $10,000 | 7 | n/a |
| 4 Directions Development | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Triangle Native American Society In | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Underscore Media Collaboration | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mitakuye Foudation | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Turtle Funding Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| La Pena Inc | $8,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Wild Rose Center | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The University of Tulsa | $8,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Harlem Youth Leaders | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Urban Indian Center of Salt Lake | $7,150 | 1 | 0% |
| Bowler School District | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Montessori American Indian Childcare Center Incorporated | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Standing Rock Sioux Tribe | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Pensar Academy | $4,970 | 1 | 0% |
| Boys and Girls Club of the Northern Cheyenne Nation | $4,300 | 7 | 0% |
| Navajo Hopi Honor Riders Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 16% |
| Provo School District | $1,000 | 6 | n/a |
| American Indian Society of Dcnew Foundations for Stability | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($107k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
American Indian Youth Running Strong Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 50 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
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About American Indian Youth Running Strong Inc
- How much does American Indian Youth Running Strong Inc give?
- American Indian Youth Running Strong Inc reported 46 itemized grants totaling $4,118,977, out of $8,337,278 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does American Indian Youth Running Strong Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (29%), Civil Rights (16%), Philanthropy (14%).
- Who are American Indian Youth Running Strong Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Pine Ridge Reservation Districts ($6.5M), American Indian Youth Running Strong Inc ($5.1M), Oyate Teca Project Inc ($3.6M).
- Does American Indian Youth Running Strong Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as American Indian Youth Running Strong Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include First Nations Development Institute, Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Inc, Common Counsel Foundation.
- Where is American Indian Youth Running Strong Inc based?
- American Indian Youth Running Strong Inc is based in VA.
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