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First Nations Development Institute
FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE advances and promotes the direct participation of tribes, tribal members, and other indigenous peoples in the full use of the economy.
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 279 grants below total $14,635,648 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $16,274,274 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,638,626 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 $10k4 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k134 grants · $2.8M
- $50k–250k138 grants · $10M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KERES CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER | $750,000 |
| TEWA WOMEN UNITED | $450,000 |
| CHANGING WOMAN INITIATIVE | $375,000 |
| BISHOP PAIUTE TRIBE | $200,000 |
| TULE RIVER INDIAN TRIBE OF THE TUL | $200,000 |
| KA IPU MAKANI CULTURAL HERITAGE CE | $200,000 |
| SHOALWATER BAY INDIAN TRIBE | $200,000 |
| OSAGE NATION | $200,000 |
| CONFEDERATED TRIBES OF GRAND RONDE | $200,000 |
| MAKAH CULTURAL AND RESEARCH CENTER | $160,000 |
| ZUNI YOUTH ENRICHMENT PROJECT | $160,000 |
| PUEBLO OF POJOAQUE | $160,000 |
| MINNEAPOLIS INDIAN CENTER | $150,000 |
| UKWAKHWA INC | $150,000 |
| SISSETON WAHPETON OYATE | $125,000 |
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, $3.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
434 repeat relationships — 148 still active in FY2025, 286 since wound down; 45 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.4M 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
- KCKERES CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +353% · 27% of their budget
- ZYZUNI YOUTH ENRICHMENT PROJECT8× · 2017–2025 · $932k · revenue +5%
- TWTEWA WOMEN UNITED4× · 2017–2025 · $732k · revenue +135%
Funded once
- APAHA PUNANA LEOone grant, 2024 · $150k · revenue 0%
- BSBERING SEA ELDERS GROUPone grant, 2024 · $150k
- ONOKLAHOMA NATIVE ASSETS COALITION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $120k · revenue ×12
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 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…
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 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…
Fund Indigenous Nations Languate, Culture and Restoration Plans
As Indigenous peoples, we derive strength from our genealogy, using the past to shape the present and inspire our future. Our mission is to empower our communities by drawing upon their strengths to cultivate economic growth.
The mission of the alaska native health board is to promote the spiritual, physical, mental, social, and cultural well-being and pride of alaska native people.
Washington Indian Civil Rights Commission is led by and for Indigenous people, and envisions a just society in which we are treated with honor, fairness and respect. Our mission is to uphold our individual civil rights through education…
The Indigenous Knowledge Collective is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that serves people in New Mexico and Arizona in a Native lead environment to sustain the revitalization of traditional existence of Native People through Art Lessons,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Native Conservancy and the most unlike its peers is Lunalilo Home. 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 18 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
450 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. 450 of the 800 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 KERES CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds ZUNI YOUTH ENRICHMENT PROJECT ↗
- Who funds EUCHEE YUCHI LANGUAGE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds TEWA WOMEN UNITED ↗
- Who funds Chugach Regional Resources Commission ↗
- Who funds THUNDER VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COR ↗
- Who funds Salish School of Spokane ↗
- Who funds AINA MOMONA ↗
- Who funds HOPI SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds INDIAN PUEBLO CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds MAKAH CULTURAL AND RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds KAWERAK INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA INDIAN MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHANGING WOMAN INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds TULALIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Native American Fish & Wildlife Society ↗
- Who funds WOODLAND INDIAN ART INC ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KAKE TRIBAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSING ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds FORT BELKNAP COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOP MENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NKWUSM ↗
- Who funds TUBATULABALS OF KERN VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Ke Kula O Piilani ↗
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: Ndn Collective Inc · Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Inc · Native American Agriculture Fund · National Indian Health Board · Association of Tribal Archives Libraries & Museums · Common Counsel Foundation · National Congress of American Indians Fund · Northwest Area Foundation · Potlatch Fund · Grid Alternatives · Indian Land Tenure Foundation · The Notah Begay III Foundation Inc
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 First Nations Development Institute 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.
- American Indian Resource Center Inc — 79% of income from government
- Learning Center at the Euchee Butterfly Farm Inc — 56% of income from government
- Warm Springs Community Action Team — 28% of income from government
- Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians — 10% 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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