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Cook Native American Ministries Foundation

In response to the christian gospel, COOK NATIVE AMERICAN MINISTRIES FOUNDATION equips and empowers native americans to better serve their churches and communities.

$105k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$81k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$50kCommunity Improvement$27kYouth Development$24kEducation$23kHealth$20kFood & Nutrition$20kHuman Services$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $81k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GRANTS 5000 AND LESS$81,469
NATIVE AMERICAN URBAN MINISTRIES$10,000
UNITED NATIONAL INDIAN TRIBAL YOUTH$7,500
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN$6,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 56% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THREE PRECIOUS MIRACLES: $10k → 11%AMERICAN INDIAN SERVICES: $8k → 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

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MT
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AZ
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NC
LA
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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.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$156k · 3 repeat orgs$134k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
13

Total granted

$156k
$120k

Still filing today

0%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesReligionCommunity ImprovementYouth 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

  • G5
    GRANTS 5000 AND LESS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $116k
  • SJ
    ST JOHN'S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    2× · 2020–2022 · $20k
  • NA
    NATIVE AMERICAN URBAN MISSION
    2× · 2022–2024 · $20k

Funded once

  • SC
    SENECA COMMUNITY CHAPLAIN CORP
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -46%
  • PC
    PENINSULA-DELAWARE CONFERENCE THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • NS
    NATIVE STRENGTH REVOLUTION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +142%
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.

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Native Healing Llc
Animals
2
Indigenous Women Rising Indigeous Women Rising
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3
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
4
Native American Training Institute

Provide foster parent training for native american child welfare workers.

Employment
5
Nanbe Tewa Language Program

Language program on indian reservation

Education
6
Aenon International

Ministry to american indians

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7
Ratiwennahawi Inc

Fund Indigenous Nations Languate, Culture and Restoration Plans

Education
8
Native American Fiber Program
Environment
9
Cihuapactli Collective

The Cihuapactli Collective's purpose is to provide healing for urban Indigenous Peoples from the diaspora. This is done by sharing wisdom, connecting resources, revitalizing Traditional Knowledge, promoting and advocating for health &…

Arts & Culture
10
Healing Cultures Inc
Health
11
Salish School of Spokane

Dynamic Salish language revitalization powering cultural renewal and building a stronger, healthier community.

Education
12
Healing Ribbons

To promote healing, positive cultural identity, holistic wellness and connection among intergenerational indigenous women and our families by sharing our collective wisdom, traditions, wellness practices and stories. we focus on healing by…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Keres Children's Learning Center; the most unlike its peers is Pawss Inc. 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

12 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. 12 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GRANTS 5000 AND LESS: $116,403 · OtherGRANTS 5000 AND LESSST JOHN'S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $20,000 · OtherST JOHN'S UNITED METHODIST CHURCHNATIVE AMERICAN URBAN MISSION: $20,000 · OtherNATIVE AMERICAN URBAN MISSIONPENINSULA-DELAWARE CONFERENCE THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $10,000 · OtherNATIVE STRENGTH REVOLUTION INC: $10,000 · OtherGRAND CANYON SYNOD ELCA: $10,000 · OtherEVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICA: $10,000 · OtherHIPEEXNU KII U NUUN WISIIX: $10,000 · HealthHIPEEXNU K…HEALING CIRCLE DROP IN CENTER: $10,000 · HealthHEALING CI…FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - HE SAPA: $6,500 · HealthFRIENDS OF…SENECA COMMUNITY CHAPLAIN CORP: $10,000 · ReligionRIVER OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 · ReligionThree Precious Miracles Inc: $9,650 · Human ServicesAmerican Indian Services: $7,500 · Human ServicesKERES CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER: $10,000 · EducationPAWSS INC: $5,820 · EducationUNITED NATIONAL INDIAN TRIBAL YOUTH INC: $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentLOWLANDER CENTER: $6,800 · Community Improvement
Other$196,403Health$26,500Religion$20,000Human Services$17,150Education$15,820Youth Development$7,500Community Improvement$6,800

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSENECA COMMUNITY CHAPLAIN CORP: $10,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetNATIVE STRENGTH REVOLUTION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetHIPEEXNU KII U NUUN WISIIX: $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetHEALING CIRCLE DROP IN CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetKERES CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Indian Services: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED NATIONAL INDIAN TRIBAL YOUTH INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLOWLANDER CENTER: $6,800 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - HE SAPA: $6,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPAWSS INC: $5,820 over 1y, 5.3% 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.

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.

Common Counsel Founda…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Common Counsel FoundationCA13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Common Counsel Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Cook Native American Ministries Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cook Native American Ministries Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Cook Native American Ministries Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Cook Native American Ministries Foundation 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 18 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.

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