· Public charity
Indian Land Tenure Foundation
The mission of the INDIAN LAND TENURE FOUNDATION (iltf) is to see those lands within the original boundaries of every reservation and other areas of high significance where tribes retain aboriginal inters are in indian ownership and management.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $1,546,340 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,599,840 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $53,500 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 · FY2024
- $10k–50k11 grants · $188k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIVE GOVERNANCE CENTER | $1,100,000 |
| NATIVE AMERICAN FISH AND WILDLIFE SOCIETY | $258,348 |
| SILVER BULLET PRODUCTIONS | $35,000 |
| REDBUD RESOURCE GROUP | $25,000 |
| SPOKANE TRIBAL NETWORK | $25,000 |
| CHEROKEE TRIBE OF NORTHEAST ALABAMA | $15,000 |
| KAWERAK INC | $15,000 |
| CHILCHINBETO CHAPTER OF THE NAVAJO NATION | $15,000 |
| MORONGO BAND OF MISSION INDIANS | $13,139 |
| HEART OF OREGON CORPS | $13,000 |
| ROSEBUD SIOUX TRIBE | $11,853 |
| LOWER SIOUX INDIAN COMMUNITY | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $3.2M) 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 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 +82% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $359k 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
- NGNATIVE GOVERNANCE CENTER3× · 2022–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +241% · 47% of their budget
- AIAhtna Intertribal Resource Commission2× · 2018–2019 · $200k · revenue +82%
- SBSilver Bullet Productions4× · 2019–2024 · $92k · revenue +71% · 31% of their budget
Funded once
- CACheyenne Arapaho Tribeone grant, 2021 · $1.6M
- VEVILLAGE EARTHgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $188k · revenue +98%
- BNBUFFALO NATIONS GRASSLANDS ALLIANCEgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +36%
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.
To promote the recruitment, retention, development, and advancement of american indian and alaska native government employees, and work to ensure their equal treatment under the law
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.
The national center for american indian enterprise development (ncaied) assists american indian tribes and their enterprises with business and economic development. ncaied works to develop and expand the american indian private sector…
The alaska nannut co-management council (ancc) was established to represent the collective alaska native voice in polar bear co-management. ancc is a tribally authorized organization with membership consisting of the 15 tribes in alaska…
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…
Promotion of general welfare and self determination of the Native Americans who reside within the six counties of the Bay Area, California. UIN provides employment and training services for the residents of these counties.
The affiliated tribes of northwest indians is founded on the principles of unity and cooperation among indian governments and people.
We're dedicated to helping Native Americans have access to a quality education, while still preserving their culture and honoring their heritage. Our mission is to provide preparatory programs for youth and financial assistance for those…
To act as a resource liason organization for Federal agencies, businesses, indian tribes and other organizations interested in positively effecting the employments right efforts. To advocate and promote the establishment and enforcement of…
Sovereign Energy builds the individual and collective power of Southwest Pueblos and Tribes to lead the way toward a just, interdependent, and sustainable energy future.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Native Governance Center and the most unlike its peers is Buffalo Nations Grasslands Alliance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 89 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
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 NATIVE GOVERNANCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Native American Fish & Wildlife Society ↗
- Who funds Ahtna Intertribal Resource Commission ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE EARTH ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO NATIONS GRASSLANDS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds San Xavier Allottees Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Silver Bullet Productions ↗
- Who funds University of Kansas Center for Research Inc ↗
- Who funds Oglala Sioux Tribe Partnership for Housing Inc ↗
- Who funds California Indian Legal Services Inc ↗
- Who funds ALOHA KUAMO'O' AINA ↗
- Who funds SIERRA INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY & ENVIRONMENT ↗
- Who funds REDBUD RESOURCE GROUP ↗
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: First Nations Development Institute · National Indian Health Board · Ndn Collective Inc · Wounded Warriors Family Support Inc · Grid Alternatives · Resources Legacy Fund · Native Governance Center · Association of Tribal Archives Libraries & Museums · Native American Agriculture Fund · National Congress of American Indians Fund · Casey Family Programs · Great Plains Tribal Leaders Health
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 Indian Land Tenure Foundation 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.
- Heart of Oregon Corps Inc — 85% 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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