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Indian Gaming Association

The mission of iga is to protect and preserve the general welfare of tribes striving for self-sufficiency through gaming enterprises in indian country.

$116k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$36kArts & Culture$25kRecreation & Sports$18kCommunity Improvement$15kInternational$10kFood & Nutrition$10kPublic Benefit$10kHuman Services$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $36,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $116,080 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $80,080 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$9.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INTERTRIBAL AGRICTULTURE COUNCIL$10,000
WEWIN$10,000
INDIAN NATIONAL FINALS RODEO$10,000
NATIONAL INDIAN WOMEN'S SUPPORTING EACH$6,000
02The need
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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 (FY21–21, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NATIONAL CENTER FOR AMERICAN ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT: $15k → 11%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.
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 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
Indigenous Women Rising Indigeous Women Rising
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3
Native American Advocacy Foundation
Philanthropy
4
The Foundation for Indigenous Education Leadership Development
Education
5
The Institute for American Indian Studies

To share and promote the spirit of the northeast's first people

Arts & Culture
6
International Indigenous Fund for Development and Solidarity Batani
International
7
Red Nation Celebration

Red Nation Celebration is the longest standing, and largest Indigenous Women-Led Native Arts & Cultural nonprofit, in the City of Los Angeles, Traditional Territory of the Tongva Nation, representing over 530+ nations across Indian…

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8
North American Native Research and Education Foundation Inc

North american native research and education foundation's mission is to provide educational and research opportunites to american indian students with the sole purpose of encouraging life-long learning and sharing.

Human Services
9
National Intercollegiate Rodeo Foundation
—
10
Native American Fiber Program
Environment
11
Native American Agriculture Fund
Food & Nutrition
12
National Federation of Indian American Assoc Inc

To serve indian american community.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Native Forward Scholars Fund; the most unlike its peers is Women Empowering Women for Indian Nations. 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

8 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. 8 of the 13 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMAR INTERNATIONAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION IN THE USA D/B/A ASPIRE INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 · OtherAMAR INTERNATIONAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION IN T…THORNBERRY CREEK AT ONEIDA: $10,000 · OtherTHORNBERRY CREEK AT ONEIDANEW MEXICO CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherNEW MEXICO CHILDREN FOUNDATIONINTERTRIBAL AGRICULTURE COUNCIL: $10,000 · OtherINTERTRIBAL AGRICULTURE COUNCILNATIONAL INDIAN WOMEN'S SUPPORTING EACH: $6,000 · OtherNATIONAL INDIAN WOMEN'S SUPPORTING EACHGOING GREEN WITH AC GREEN: $5,000 · OtherGOING GREEN WITH AC GREENNATIONAL CENTER FOR AMERICAN ENT: $5,000 · OtherNATIONAL CENTER FOR AMERICAN ENTNATIVE FORWARD SCHOLARS FUND: $26,130 · EducationNATIVE FORWARD SCHOLA…INDIAN NATIONAL FINALS RODEO: $17,500 · Recreation & SportsINDIAN NATIONA…NATIONAL CENTER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT: $15,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL CEN…NATIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN HALL OF FAME: $10,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL NAT…THE HISPANIC INSTITUTE: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE HISPANIC…WOMEN EMPOWERING WOMEN FOR INDIAN NATIONS: $10,000 · Public Benefit
Other$56,000Education$26,130Recreation & Sports$17,500Human Services$15,000Arts & Culture$15,000Public Benefit$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIVE FORWARD SCHOLARS FUND: $26,130 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINDIAN NATIONAL FINALS RODEO: $17,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWOMEN EMPOWERING WOMEN FOR INDIAN NATIONS: $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetAMAR INTERNATIONAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION IN THE USA D/B/A ASPIRE INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN HALL OF FAME: $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetINTERTRIBAL AGRICULTURE COUNCIL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HISPANIC INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Indian Gaming Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Indian Gaming Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    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.

    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 13 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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