How much does Illuminative Inc give?

Illuminative Inc reported 24 grants totaling $2,613,954 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 16 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.

What does Illuminative Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (49%), Civil Rights (17%), Community Improvement (9%).

Who are Illuminative Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Psfflp LLC ($750k), Amplifier Foundation ($425k), United South and Eastern Tribesinc ($300k).

Does Illuminative Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 81% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Illuminative Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Common Counsel Foundation, First Nations Development Institute, Alliance for a Just Society.

Where is Illuminative Inc based?

Illuminative Inc is based in DC.

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Washington, D.C. · Public charity

Illuminative Inc

Our mission is to build power for native peoples by amplifying contemporary native voices, stories, and issues to advance justice, equity, and self-determination. We utilize research, narrative and culture change strategies, movement-building, and organizing to disrupt the invisibility of native peoples, re-educate americans, and…

$2.6M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 24
Grants FY2025: 16
Organizations funded FY2024: 81%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $60,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $425,000
Organizations funded a year: 8 to 16; FY2023 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 14

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 81% of the organizations Illuminative Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 85% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	24	$2.6M	71%
FY2024	16	$1.5M	81%
FY2023	8	$80k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$2.1MCivil Rights$713kCommunity Improvement$387kHealth$375kPublic Benefit$255kYouth Development$194kHuman Services$70kEnvironment$65kOther$0

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, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Psfflp LLC	$750,000	1	n/a
Amplifier Foundation	$425,000	1	n/a
United South and Eastern Tribesinc	$300,000	1	2%
Sundance Institute	$300,000	1	n/a
The Center For Native Health Inc	$300,000	1	n/a
Native Movement	$250,000	2	2%
Alliance for a Just Society	$170,000	2	0%
Youth Forward	$168,675	2	11%
Lone Wolf Documentary Group	$160,000	1	n/a
Community Partners	$126,500	2	0%

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All grantees of Illuminative Inc by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Psfflp LLC	$750,000	1	n/a
Amplifier Foundation	$425,000	1	n/a
United South and Eastern Tribesinc	$300,000	1	2%
Sundance Institute	$300,000	1	n/a
The Center For Native Health Inc	$300,000	1	n/a
Native Movement	$250,000	2	2%
Alliance for a Just Society	$170,000	2	0%
Youth Forward	$168,675	2	11%
Lone Wolf Documentary Group	$160,000	1	n/a
Community Partners	$126,500	2	0%
Indij Public Media	$100,000	1	2%
Big Sky Film Institute	$100,000	1	n/a
Harness Community	$85,000	2	2%
Native American Community Development Institute	$85,000	2	4%
Arizona Native Vote	$85,000	2	5%
California Consortium for Urban Indian Health	$75,000	2	1%
Native American Rights Fund Inc	$75,000	1	0%
Meztli Projects Inc	$65,000	2	4%
Rios to Rivers	$65,000	2	3%
National Congress of American Indians	$63,000	1	n/a
Nativesoutdoors Pbc	$50,000	1	n/a
Native Americans in Philanthropy	$50,000	1	0%
Red Ambition Productions LLC	$50,000	1	n/a
One Innertainment Inc	$40,000	1	n/a
Miigwech Inc	$40,000	1	4%
Menomini You Inc	$30,000	1	n/a
Tsquared Consulting	$30,000	1	n/a
Movement Strategy Center	$30,000	1	0%
Inter-Tribal Council of Nevada	$30,000	1	n/a
National Indian Youth Council Inc	$25,000	1	1%
Friends of Levitt Pavilion Denver	$25,000	1	n/a
Open Arms Perinatal Services	$10,000	1	0%
Indigenous Lifeways	$10,000	1	3%
Oceti Sakowin Writers Society	$10,000	1	n/a
American Indian Youth Running Strong Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund	$10,000	1	n/a
Phoenix Indian Center Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Western Native Voice Inc	$10,000	1	n/a

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Illuminative Inc supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 21.

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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 FoundationCA21× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Common Counsel Foundation · First Nations Development Institute · Alliance for a Just Society · Ndn Collective Inc · Impactassetsinc · The Schmidt Family Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · The California Endowment · Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Inc · New Venture Fund · Wend II 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.

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About Illuminative Inc

How much does Illuminative Inc give?: Illuminative Inc reported 24 grants totaling $2,613,954 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 16 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
What does Illuminative Inc fund?: By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (49%), Civil Rights (17%), Community Improvement (9%).
Who are Illuminative Inc's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Psfflp LLC ($750k), Amplifier Foundation ($425k), United South and Eastern Tribesinc ($300k).
Does Illuminative Inc fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 81% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Illuminative Inc?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Common Counsel Foundation, First Nations Development Institute, Alliance for a Just Society.
Where is Illuminative Inc based?: Illuminative Inc is based in DC.