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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 FY2025still arriving
46
Grants FY2025still arriving
22
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$5.6MCivil Rights$3.1MPhilanthropy$2.7MEnvironment$2.5MYouth Development$1.7MFood & Nutrition$1.5MArts & Culture$1.0MEducation$634kOther$0
02FY2025 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 46 grants below total $4,118,977, the rows itemized in this filing. The $8,337,278 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $4,218,301 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k34 grants · $577k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $171k
  • $250k+3 grants · $3.3M
$10,000
Median grant
22
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
THROUGH PISCATAWAY EYES$40,000
HO'OLA$40,000
EUCHEE LANGUAGE PROJECT$30,000
CHEYENNE RIVER RESERVATION DISTRICTS$27,108
KANSAS UNIVERSITY ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION$25,000
NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$25,000
SACRED HEALING CIRCLE$25,000
BRAVESTATL$24,250
ROCK HILL SCHOOL DISTRICT$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ACADEMY OF ART UNIVERSITY: $10k → 10%SACRED PIPE RESOURCE CENTER: $19k → 10%BRAVE HEART SOCIETY: $1.3M → 22%SACRED PIPE RESOURCE CENTER: $17k → 10%BRAVE HEART SOCIETY: $1.3M → 22%SACRED PIPE RESOURCE CENTER: $15k → 10%BRAVE HEART SOCIETY: $635k → 22%SACRED PIPE RESOURCE CENTER: $15k → 10%BRAVE HEART SOCIETY: $591k → 22%SACRED PIPE RESOURCE CENTER: $2k → 10%BRAVE HEART SOCIETY: $521k → 22%BRAVE HEART SOCIETY: $340k → 22%BRAVE HEART SOCIETY: $201k → 22%BRAVE HEART SOCIETY: $139k → 22%BRAVE HEART SOCIETY: $129k → 22%NAVAJOSTRONG: $25k → 8%NAVAJO STRONG: $10k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
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MT
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WI
NY
OR
NV
WY
SD
IA
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
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NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
AL
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$19M · 54 repeat orgs$836k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
36

Total granted

$19M
$509k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+28%

Still filing today

52%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $327k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AI
    AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH RUNNING STRONG INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $5.1M · revenue +162%
  • OT
    OYATE TECA PROJECT INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $3.6M · revenue +751% · 82% of their budget
  • CR
    CHEYENNE RIVER YOUTH PROJECT INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $213k · revenue +105%

Funded once

  • FRACTURED ATLAS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +5%
  • U
    UNKITAWA
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -28%
  • RM
    ROGERS MEMORIAL LIBRARYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +28%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
American Indian Institute

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.

Human Services
2
The Foundation for Indigenous Education Leadership Development
Education
3
Native American Advocacy Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Indigenous Women Rising Indigeous Women Rising
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5
American Indian Services

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…

Human Services
6
Native American Fiber Program
Environment
7
Native Healing Llc
Animals
8
Naa Kaani Native Program

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…

Community Improvement
9
The Tiwahe Foundation

Our mission is to strengthen indigenous leadership and cultural identity.

Human Services
10
Institute of American Indian Arts & Alaska Native

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.

Education
11
International Indigenous Fund for Development and Solidarity Batani
International
12
Na'ah Illahee Fund

Naah Illahee Fund is an Indigenous-led organization rooted in the Northwest region of Turtle Island. Our mission is to catalyze the ongoing regeneration of Indigenous communities through participatory grantmaking, capacity building, and…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United National Indian Tribal Youth Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

68 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/68
Grantees still filing
44/68
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PINE RIDGE RESERVATION DISTRICTS: $6,450,933 · OtherPINE RIDGE RESERVATION DISTRICTSAFRAID OF BEAR - AMERICAN HORSE TIOSPAYE: $352,970 · Other+68 more: $2,328,326 · Other+68 moreAMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH RUNNING STRONG INC: $5,093,673 · Human ServicesAMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH RUNNING …+3 more: $111,500 · Human ServicesOYATE TECA PROJECT INC: $3,600,485 · PhilanthropyOYATE TECA PROJECT IN…+1 more: $41,535 · PhilanthropyXINEWH-DING INC: $142,106 · EducationKEYA FOUNDATION LLC: $62,000 · EducationA T Still University of Health Sciences: $55,000 · EducationThe Kansas University Endowment Association: $50,000 · EducationROGERS MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $50,000 · EducationNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $35,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationNORTHERN ARIZONA PRIDE ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · EducationSociety of American Indian Dentist Inc: $20,000 · Education+6 more: $53,970 · EducationEUCHEE YUCHI LANGUAGE PROJECT INC: $237,400 · Arts & CultureART MAKER LLC: $60,105 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureWisdom of the Elders Incorporated: $50,000 · Arts & CultureMICA GROUP INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureNATIVE AMERICAN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CEDAR FUND: $17,250 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $50,000 · Arts & CultureCHEYENNE RIVER YOUTH PROJECT INC: $213,230 · Youth DevelopmentUNITED NATIONAL INDIAN TRIBAL YOUTH INC: $12,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $4,300 · Youth DevelopmentSACRED HEALING CIRCLE: $111,000 · HealthTRIBAL ADAPTIVE ORGANIZATION: $70,000 · HealthAMERICA'S TOOTHFAIRY NATIONAL CHILDREN'S ORAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthLindy Waters III Foundation Inc: $10,000 · HealthMITAKUYE FOUDATION: $10,000 · Health
Other$9,132,229Human Services$5,205,173Philanthropy$3,642,020Education$518,076Arts & Culture$514,755Youth Development$229,530Health$211,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH RUNNING STRONG INC: $5,093,673 over 9y, 14% of budgetOYATE TECA PROJECT INC: $3,600,485 over 8y, 82% of budgetEUCHEE YUCHI LANGUAGE PROJECT INC: $237,400 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetCHEYENNE RIVER YOUTH PROJECT INC: $213,230 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetGREATER MINNEAPOLIS COUNCIL OF CHURCHES: $160,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetXINEWH-DING INC: $142,106 over 2y, 31% of budgetSACRED HEALING CIRCLE: $111,000 over 5y, 42% of budgetEarth Guardians: $70,000 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetTRIBAL ADAPTIVE ORGANIZATION: $70,000 over 4y, 8.0% of budgetSACRED PIPE RESOURCE CENTER: $66,500 over 6y, 15% of budgetART MAKER LLC: $60,105 over 3y, 24% of budgetA T Still University of Health Sciences: $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Kansas University Endowment Association: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNKITAWA: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHO'OLA: $50,000 over 2y, 99% of budgetWisdom of the Elders Incorporated: $50,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetROGERS MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetVirginia Capitol Foundation: $41,535 over 1y, 18% of budgetNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNavajoStrong: $35,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION DEMANDED AGENCY INC: $30,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetMICA GROUP INC: $30,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SOCIETY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH KOHALA COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $27,600 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetINDIAN YOUTH OF AMERICA INC: $27,500 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN ARTISTS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetSociety of American Indian Dentist Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetPINE RIDGE GIRLS SCHOOL INC: $16,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetUNITED NATIONAL INDIAN TRIBAL YOUTH INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE ACADEMY OF ART UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetNation Ford Land Trust: $10,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetFAST BLACKFEET: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNATIVE HOPE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCITIZENS CAMPAIGN FUND FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAMERICA'S TOOTHFAIRY NATIONAL CHILDREN'S ORAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVISION MAKER MEDIA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSICANGU OYATE HO INC DBA ST FRANCIS INDIAN SCHOOL: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWAMPUM CONSULTING INC: $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetFIRST ALASKANS INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLA PENA INC: $8,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetThe University of Tulsa: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUrban Indian Center of Salt Lake: $7,150 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMONTESSORI AMERICAN INDIAN CHILDCARE CENTER INCORPORATED: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPensar Academy: $4,970 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 Earth Guardians ↗
  • Who funds TRIBAL ADAPTIVE ORGANIZATION ↗
  • 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 The Kansas University Endowment Association ↗
  • Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds UNKITAWA ↗
  • Who funds HO'OLA ↗
  • Who funds Wisdom of the Elders Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds ROGERS MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds Virginia Capitol Foundation ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NavajoStrong ↗

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.

First Nations Develop…Seventh Generation Fu…Common Counsel Founda…Novo FoundationNdn Collective IncFirst Peoples FundSanta Fe Natural Toba…National Urban Indian…National Congress of …Northwest Area Founda…American Indian Colle…Association of Tribal…
First Nations Development InstituteCO59.4× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization American Indian Youth Running Strong Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Indian Youth Running Strong Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • The University of Tulsa: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to American Indian Youth Running Strong Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 111 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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