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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.

$16M
Granted FY2025still arriving
279
Grants FY2025still arriving
26
States reached
$750k
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.

Community Improvement$66MEducation$825kArts & Culture$492kFood & Nutrition$386kEnvironment$244kHousing & Shelter$145kYouth Development$92kCrime & Legal$75kOther$0
02FY2025 · 279 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 279 grants below total $14,635,648, the rows itemized in this filing. The $16,274,274 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,638,626 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 $10k4 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k134 grants · $2.8M
  • $50k–250k138 grants · $10M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.6M
$50,000
Median grant
26
States reached
$116M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KERES CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER$750,000
TEWA WOMEN UNITED$450,000
CHANGING WOMAN INITIATIVE$375,000
SHOALWATER BAY INDIAN TRIBE$200,000
BISHOP PAIUTE TRIBE$200,000
CONFEDERATED TRIBES OF GRAND RONDE$200,000
TULE RIVER INDIAN TRIBE OF THE TUL$200,000
KA IPU MAKANI CULTURAL HERITAGE CE$200,000
OSAGE NATION$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
ROSEBUD SIOUX TRIBE$125,000
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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SEEDS OF HARMONY INC: $72k → 28%Center Pole: $32k → 23%TEWA WOMEN UNITED: $450k → 18%Ekvne Yefolecvlke: $40k → 18%DENVER INDIAN CENTER: $100k → 12%TTAWAXT BIRTH JUSTICE CENTER: $32k → 17%Northwest Native Development Fund: $32k → 17%SACRED PIPE RESOURCE CENTER: $100k → 10%NITAMISING GIMASHKIKINAAN: $30k → 11%Dakota Wicohan: $59k → 11%Center Pole: $30k → 23%TEWA WOMEN UNITED: $75k → 18%EKVN YEFOLECVLKE: $32k → 18%Sacred Pipe Resource Center: $37k → 10%Standing Rock Comm Devel Center: $89k → 33%PUKUU CULTURAL COMMUNITY SERVICES: $30k → 14%Coalition to Stop Violence against Native Women: $32k → 14%TEWA WOMEN UNITED: $50k → 18%The Hopi Foundation: $48k → 26%NITAMISING GIMASHKIKINAAN: $30k → 11%TEWA WOMEN UNITED: $50k → 18%The Hopi Foundation: $30k → 26%MINNEAPOLIS INDIAN CENTER: $150k → 11%TEWA WOMEN UNITED: $25k → 18%DENVER INDIAN FAMILY RESOURCE CENTE: $100k → 12%CHUGACH REGIONAL RESOURCES: $100k → 10%SEVENTH GENERATION INC: $28k → 14%BRAVE HEART SOCIETY: $50k → 22%Dakota Wicohan: $32k → 11%DENVER INDIAN FAMILY RESOURCE CENTE: $28k → 12%SEVENTH GENERATION FUND PEOPLE OF: $25k → 14%BRAVE HEART SOCIETY: $50k → 22%Dakota Wicohan: $27k → 11%Standing Rock Comm Devel Center: $39k → 33%NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY BOARD: $35k → 22%BRAVE HEART SOCIETY: $30k → 22%DAKOTA WICOHAN: $25k → 11%HAWIKKU: $40k → 32%Kno'Qoti Native Wellness: $32k → 17%Two Feathers Native American Family Services: $31k → 18%HAWIKKU: $26k → 32%NATIONAL INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ASSOC: $50k → 12%Nature Rights Council: $29k → 18%FOUR WINDS AMERICAN INDIAN COUNCIL: $45k → 12%DENVER INDIAN HEALTH AND FAMILY SER: $100k → 12%SAAD K'IDILYE: $150k → 14%Tewa Women United: $35k → 12%Tewa Women United: $32k → 12%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
ME
VT
WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
TX
FL
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$59M · 434 repeat orgs$8.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +25% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

434
315

Total granted

$59M
$6.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+25%

Still filing today

51%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.4M 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
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationEnvironmentHealthOther
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

  • KC
    KERES CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +353% · 27% of their budget
  • ZY
    ZUNI YOUTH ENRICHMENT PROJECT
    8× · 2017–2025 · $932k · revenue +5%
  • TW
    TEWA WOMEN UNITED
    4× · 2017–2025 · $732k · revenue +135%

Funded once

  • AP
    AHA PUNANA LEO
    one grant, 2024 · $150k · revenue 0%
  • BS
    BERING SEA ELDERS GROUP
    one grant, 2024 · $150k
  • ON
    OKLAHOMA NATIVE ASSETS COALITION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $120k · revenue ×12
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
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
2
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
3
Native Healing Llc
Animals
4
Indigenous Women Rising Indigeous Women Rising
—
5
The Cultural ConservancySacred Land Foundation

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…

Arts & Culture
6
Ratiwennahawi Inc

Fund Indigenous Nations Languate, Culture and Restoration Plans

Education
7
Kukolu

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.

Community Improvement
8
International Indigenous Fund for Development and Solidarity Batani
International
9
The Foundation for Indigenous Education Leadership Development
Education
10
Alaska Native Health Board

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.

—
11
The Indigenous Knowledge Collective

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,…

—
12
Washington Indian Civil Rights Commission

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…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Native Conservancy; 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.
04the grantee network

450 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. 450 of the 800 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.

33
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
179
Early backer (in before they grew)
424/450
Grantees still filing
303/450
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

+122 more: $26,964,422 · Other+122 moreEUCHEE YUCHI LANGUAGE PROJECT INC: $762,357 · Arts & CultureEUCHEE YUCHI L…INDIAN PUEBLO CULTURAL CENTER: $521,000 · Arts & CultureINDIAN PUEBLO …MAKAH CULTURAL AND RESEARCH CENTER: $517,000 · Arts & CultureMAKAH CULTURAL…CALIFORNIA INDIAN MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER: $451,167 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA IND…TULALIP FOUNDATION: $435,650 · Arts & CultureTULALIP FOUNDA…WOODLAND INDIAN ART INC: $374,420 · Arts & CultureWOODLAND INDIA…KAKE TRIBAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $365,462 · Arts & CultureKAKE TRIBAL HE…TUBATULABALS OF KERN VALLEY: $308,500 · Arts & CultureTANANAWIT: $296,926 · Arts & CultureMICA GROUP INC: $264,530 · Arts & CultureUKWAKHWA INC: $262,000 · Arts & CultureATUX FOREVER RESTORING ATTUANS FREEDOM: $234,000 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $1,034,800 · Arts & Culture+8 moreKERES CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER: $1,446,358 · EducationKERES CHILDRE…Salish School of Spokane: $539,628 · EducationSalish School…HOPI SCHOOL INC: $533,245 · EducationHOPI SCHOOL I…NKWUSM: $316,679 · EducationNKWUSMFRIENDS OF THE AKWESASNE FREEDOM SCHOOL INC: $307,349 · EducationFRIENDS OF TH…BLACKFEET COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $300,000 · EducationBLACKFEET COM…Wopanaak Language and Cultural Weetyoo Inc: $257,858 · EducationDakota Rural Action: $249,310 · EducationAMERICAN INDIAN RESOURCE CENTER INC: $229,000 · EducationXINEWH-DING INC: $210,000 · Education+8 more: $1,127,445 · Education+8 moreTEWA WOMEN UNITED: $732,000 · Human ServicesSEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC: $199,500 · Human ServicesDENVER INDIAN CENTER INC: $190,000 · Human ServicesDENVER INDIAN FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $187,000 · Human ServicesMinneapolis American Indian Center: $175,000 · Human ServicesSACRED PIPE RESOURCE CENTER: $174,250 · Human ServicesAMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH RUNNING STRONG INC: $169,000 · Human ServicesSaad K'idilye': $160,000 · Human ServicesDENVER INDIAN HEALTH AND FAMILY SER: $154,000 · Human ServicesDAKOTA WICOHAN: $147,735 · Human ServicesSTANDING ROCK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $142,929 · Human ServicesCHUGACHMIUT: $126,000 · Human ServicesNATIVE AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION: $120,500 · Human ServicesNATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY BOARD: $114,610 · Human ServicesTHE HOPI FOUNDATION LOMASUMI'NANGWTUKWSIWMANI: $112,100 · Human ServicesTHUNDER VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COR: $571,928 · Community ImprovementFORT BELKNAP COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOP MENT CORPORATION: $331,000 · Community ImprovementBERING SEA FISHERMENS ASSOCIATION: $240,000 · Community ImprovementSicangu Community Development Corporation: $215,000 · Community ImprovementTOLANI LAKE ENTERPRISES INC: $163,200 · Community ImprovementSOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT: $160,000 · Community ImprovementLAGUNA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $148,000 · Community ImprovementWARM SPRINGS COMMUNITY ACTION TEAM: $142,000 · Community ImprovementPLENTY DOORS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $130,000 · Community ImprovementNATIVE MOVEMENT: $130,000 · Community ImprovementOKLAHOMA NATIVE ASSETS COALITION INC: $120,000 · Community ImprovementAJO CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE: $118,000 · Community ImprovementAINA MOMONA: $534,250 · EnvironmentWIND RIVER TRIBAL BUFFALO INITIATIVE: $284,000 · EnvironmentSUSTAINABLE MOLOKAI: $280,037 · EnvironmentNATIVE CONSERVANCY: $244,425 · EnvironmentMAIDU SUMMIT CONSORTIUM: $180,500 · EnvironmentKai Poma: $175,000 · EnvironmentNative American Land Conservancy: $160,000 · EnvironmentAhtna Intertribal Resource Commission: $150,000 · EnvironmentBUFFALO NATIONS GRASSLANDS ALLIANCE: $140,000 · EnvironmentDINE CITIZENS AGAINST RUINING OUR ENVIRONMENT: $138,500 · EnvironmentRED CLOUD RENEWABLE: $130,000 · EnvironmentZUNI YOUTH ENRICHMENT PROJECT: $932,250 · Youth DevelopmentOPT IN Kiana: $117,450 · Youth Development
Other$26,964,422Arts & Culture$5,827,812Education$5,516,872Human Services$2,904,624Community Improvement$2,469,128Environment$2,416,712Youth Development$1,049,700

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKERES CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER: $1,446,358 over 9y, 27% of budgetZUNI YOUTH ENRICHMENT PROJECT: $932,250 over 8y, 9.2% of budgetEUCHEE YUCHI LANGUAGE PROJECT INC: $762,357 over 7y, 6.3% of budgetTEWA WOMEN UNITED: $732,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetChugach Regional Resources Commission: $644,294 over 6y, 7.4% of budgetTHUNDER VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COR: $571,928 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetSalish School of Spokane: $539,628 over 6y, 7.6% of budgetAINA MOMONA: $534,250 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetHOPI SCHOOL INC: $533,245 over 8y, 41% of budgetINDIAN PUEBLO CULTURAL CENTER: $521,000 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetMAKAH CULTURAL AND RESEARCH CENTER: $517,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetKAWERAK INC: $503,958 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCALIFORNIA INDIAN MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER: $451,167 over 7y, 9.6% of budgetCHANGING WOMAN INITIATIVE: $439,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTULALIP FOUNDATION: $435,650 over 5y, 28% of budgetNative American Fish & Wildlife Society: $435,650 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetWOODLAND INDIAN ART INC: $374,420 over 4y, 42% of budgetNEW MEXICO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $373,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetKAKE TRIBAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $365,462 over 3y, 35% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSING ORGANIZATION: $345,086 over 4y, 6.9% of budgetFORT BELKNAP COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOP MENT CORPORATION: $331,000 over 5y, 30% of budgetNKWUSM: $316,679 over 4y, 12% of budgetTUBATULABALS OF KERN VALLEY: $308,500 over 4y, 63% of budgetKe Kula O Piilani: $307,900 over 7y, 15% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE AKWESASNE FREEDOM SCHOOL INC: $307,349 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetBLACKFEET COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $300,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTANANAWIT: $296,926 over 5y, 54% of budgetSITTING BULL COLLEGE: $290,929 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetWIND RIVER TRIBAL BUFFALO INITIATIVE: $284,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetSUSTAINABLE MOLOKAI: $280,037 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetHOLANI HANA INC: $265,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetMICA GROUP INC: $264,530 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetUKWAKHWA INC: $262,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetNATIVE PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $260,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetWopanaak Language and Cultural Weetyoo Inc: $257,858 over 5y, 21% of budgetAFFILIATED TRIBES OF NORTHWEST INDIANS: $250,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetDakota Rural Action: $249,310 over 4y, 14% of budgetWOLAKOTA WALDORF SOCIETY: $246,642 over 3y, 36% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC: $245,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNATIVE CONSERVANCY: $244,425 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetBERING SEA FISHERMENS ASSOCIATION: $240,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetATUX FOREVER RESTORING ATTUANS FREEDOM: $234,000 over 3y, 67% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN RESOURCE CENTER INC: $229,000 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetSicangu Community Development Corporation: $215,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetXINEWH-DING INC: $210,000 over 2y, 64% of budgetTO' NIHAIYILYA GROWING OUR DREAMS INC: $205,500 over 2y, 98% of budgetCARRIZO COMECRUDO NATION OF TEXAS INC: $205,000 over 6y, 15% of budgetSEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC: $199,500 over 5y, 0.8% 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 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 ↗

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.

Ndn Collective IncSeventh Generation Fu…Native American Agric…National Indian Healt…Association of Tribal…Common Counsel Founda…National Congress of …Northwest Area Founda…Potlatch FundGrid AlternativesIndian Land Tenure Fo…The Notah Begay III F…
Ndn Collective IncSD190.9× affinity139 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 First Nations Development Institute funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from First Nations Development Institute. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 56%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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 First Nations Development Institute 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 800 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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