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Na'ah Illahee Fund

Naah Illahee Fund is an Indigenous-led organization rooted in the Northwest region of Turtle Island.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$359k
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, FY2018 to 2024.

Human Services$859kEnvironment$647kCivil Rights$619kFood & Nutrition$595kArts & Culture$448kPublic Safety & Disaster$259kCommunity Improvement$120kHealth$120kOther$0
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 32 grants below total $939,625, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,192,212 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $252,587 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 $10k4 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $499k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $359k
$20,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Native Family Learning Lodge$359,257
Indigenous Just Transition$50,000
Indigenous Creatives Collective$42,500
Indigenous Roots & Reparation Foundation$40,000
Naa Kaani Native Program$25,000
Duwamish Tribal Services$25,000
SaltFire$25,000
Piikani Lodge Health Institute$25,000
Center for Populat Research Education and Policy$24,400
SE Alaska Indigenous Transboundary Commission$23,000
Tulalip Tribes of Washington$22,500
Coast Salish Youth Coalition$22,500
Community Development Initiative$20,000
Community Traditions$20,000
Chief Leschi Schools$20,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $827k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Center Pole Inc: $50k → 23%NAWDIM Open Arms: $10k → 9%Innovations Human Trafficking: $25k → 9%American Indian Community Ctr: $29k → 12%Ttawaxt Birth Justice Center: $20k → 17%YAKUTAT TLINGET TRIBE: $25k → 12%CENTER POLE INC: $25k → 23%American Indian Community Ctr: $12k → 12%TTAWAXT BIRTH JUSTICE CENTER: $10k → 17%Center Pole Inc: $20k → 23%INNOVATIONS HUMAN TRAFFICKING COLLABORATIVE: $20k → 9%Innovations HTC: $10k → 9%Native Family Learning Lodge: $359k → 9%Native Family Learning Lodge: $147k → 9%Native Family Learning Lodge: $15k → 9%TACOMA SEED: $25k → 9%Tacoma Seed: $13k → 9%Chief Seattle Club: $13k → 9%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
WA
ID
MT
MN
OR
NV
WY
CA
UT
VA
DC
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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 36 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
63

Total granted

$2.1M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+30%

Still filing today

58%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $423k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • NF
    NATIVE FAMILY LEARNING LODGE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $521k · revenue +105% · 93% of their budget
  • NC
    NATIVE CONSERVANCY
    3× · 2021–2023 · $70k · revenue +101%
  • Salish School of Spokane
    2× · 2021–2022 · $63k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • HI
    HUMMINGBIRD INDIGENOUS FAMILY SERVICES
    one grant, 2023 · $73k
  • AA
    ALLOTTEES ASSOCIATION & AFFILIATED TRIBES OF THE QUINAULT RESERVATION
    one grant, 2020 · $53k
  • CT
    Conf Tribes - Colville Reserv
    one grant, 2020 · $53k
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
Indigenous Women Rising Indigeous Women Rising
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2
Native Healing Llc
Animals
3
Na'ah Illahee Fund

Naah Illahee Fund is an Indigenous-led organization rooted in the Northwest region of Turtle Island. Our mission is to catalyze the ongoing regeneration of Indigenous communities through participatory grantmaking, capacity building, and…

International
4
Seattle Indian Center
Human Services
5
Haida Roots

Haida Roots is committed to preserving the endangered Haida language (Alaskan dialect) for future generations. Our mission is to connect community members living in the Seattle area to the Haida language and culture through programs and…

Arts & Culture
6
International Indigenous Fund for Development and Solidarity Batani
International
7
Northwest Washington Indian Health Board

Federal grants and contracts were used to provide direct community and public health services within Native American communities in Northwest Washington

—
8
Mother Nation

Mother Nation is a Native American 501(c)(3) nonprofit that offers culturally informed healing services, advocacy, mentorship and homeless prevention in Washington State. We support Native and Indigenous women during times of transition…

Human Services
9
The Foundation for Indigenous Education Leadership Development
Education
10
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
11
Wis Teq Neemit

Promote and educate the heritage of the Nez Perce Tribe.

Community Improvement
12
Native Wellness Institute

The Native Wellness Institute provides wellness and healing related training and technical assistance to Indian tribes and organizations that is based in Native culture that keeps the teachings of our ancestors alive.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Native Conservancy; the most unlike its peers is Seattle Print Arts. 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

60 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. 60 of the 124 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)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/60
Grantees still filing
37/60
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HUMMINGBIRD INDIGENOUS FAMILY SERVICES: $73,475 · OtherLUMMI NATION: $71,778 · Other+78 more: $1,933,206 · Other+78 moreNATIVE FAMILY LEARNING LODGE: $521,308 · Human ServicesNATIVE FAMILY LEARNING L…Center Pole: $94,630 · Human ServicesCenter PoleInnovations Human Trafficking Collaborative: $55,000 · Human ServicesInnovations Human Traffi…AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY CENTER ASSOCIATION: $40,900 · Human ServicesHilltop Urban Gardens: $37,500 · Human ServicesTTAWAXT BIRTH JUSTICE CENTER: $30,000 · Human Services+3 more: $47,500 · Human Services+3 moreNATIVE CONSERVANCY: $69,630 · EnvironmentNATIVE CON…UNKITAWA: $53,749 · EnvironmentUNKITAWAIndigenous Just Transition: $50,000 · EnvironmentIndigenous…NIMIIPUU PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT: $40,000 · EnvironmentNIMIIPUU P…THE RIVER WALKERS FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EnvironmentTHE RIVER …NEW VENTURE FUND: $25,000 · EnvironmentNEW VENTUR…Coast Salish Youth Coalition: $22,500 · EnvironmentCoast Sali…WA-YA OUTDOOR INSTITUTE: $20,700 · EnvironmentWA-YA OUTD…Khimstonik: $20,000 · EnvironmentKhimstonikMethow Field Institute: $12,200 · Environment+1 more: $10,000 · EnvironmentMOUNTAINS ALL AROUND: $50,000 · Arts & CultureCOLUMBIA RIVER INSTITUTE FOR INDIGENOUS: $44,641 · Arts & CultureNATIVE ACTION NETWORK: $40,500 · Arts & CultureINDIGENOUS ROOTS & REPARATION FND: $40,000 · Arts & CultureARTS IMPACT: $25,000 · Arts & CulturePiikani Lodge Health Institute: $25,000 · Arts & CultureHaa Tooch Licheesh: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NATIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN BOARDING SC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureSeattle Print Arts: $9,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $5,500 · Arts & CultureSalish School of Spokane: $62,500 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR TACOMA STUDENTS: $50,000 · EducationCenter for Popular Research Education and Policy: $24,400 · EducationUrban American Indian Alaska Native Education Alli: $20,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $12,500 · EducationHIPEEXNU KII U NUUN WISIIX: $57,000 · HealthSALTFIRE: $25,000 · HealthDAY EAGLE HOPE PROJECT: $25,000 · HealthTHE STRONGHOLD A CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE PEER SUPPORT PROGRAM: $19,630 · HealthSEATTLE INDIAN HEALTH BOARD: $10,000 · HealthNAA KAANI NATIVE PROGRAM: $25,000 · Community ImprovementTHE PEOPLES PARTNERS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $19,630 · Community ImprovementELDERBERRY WISDOM FARM: $19,630 · Community ImprovementNATIVE MOVEMENT: $12,000 · Community Improvement
Other$2,078,459Human Services$826,838Environment$348,779Arts & Culture$259,641Education$169,400Health$136,630Community Improvement$76,260

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIVE FAMILY LEARNING LODGE: $521,308 over 2y, 93% of budgetCenter Pole: $94,630 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetHUMMINGBIRD INDIGENOUS FAMILY SERVICES: $73,475 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetNATIVE CONSERVANCY: $69,630 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetSalish School of Spokane: $62,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetINDIGENOUS CREATIVES COLLECTIVE: $62,130 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetDUWAMISH TRIBAL SERVICES DBA DUWAMISH TRIBAL SERVICES INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetHIPEEXNU KII U NUUN WISIIX: $57,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetInnovations Human Trafficking Collaborative: $55,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetUNKITAWA: $53,749 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE YAKAMA NATION: $50,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetIndigenous Just Transition: $50,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetLHAQ'TEMISH FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR TACOMA STUDENTS: $50,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetChugach Regional Resources Commission: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetKOTZEBUE ELECTRIC ASSOCIATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOLUMBIA RIVER INSTITUTE FOR INDIGENOUS: $44,641 over 2y, 10% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY CENTER ASSOCIATION: $40,900 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetNATIVE ACTION NETWORK: $40,500 over 2y, 14% of budgetINDIGENOUS ROOTS & REPARATION FND: $40,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetNIMIIPUU PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT: $40,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetHilltop Urban Gardens: $37,500 over 2y, 14% of budgetTTAWAXT BIRTH JUSTICE CENTER: $30,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetARTS IMPACT: $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSALTFIRE: $25,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetTHE RIVER WALKERS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetTHE YAKUTAT TLINGIT TRIBE NONPROFIT: $25,000 over 1y, 63% of budgetPiikani Lodge Health Institute: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDAY EAGLE HOPE PROJECT: $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetNAA KAANI NATIVE PROGRAM: $25,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Popular Research Education and Policy: $24,400 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetSOUTHEAST ALASKA INDIGINOUS TRANSBOUNDARY COMMISSI: $23,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetCoast Salish Youth Coalition: $22,500 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetWA-YA OUTDOOR INSTITUTE: $20,700 over 1y, 24% of budgetUrban American Indian Alaska Native Education Alli: $20,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetNORTHEAST COALITION OF NEIGHBORHOODS: $19,630 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTHE PEOPLES PARTNERS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $19,630 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE STRONGHOLD A CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE PEER SUPPORT PROGRAM: $19,630 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetELDERBERRY WISDOM FARM: $19,630 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetUNITED INDIANS OF ALL TRIBES FOUNDATION: $15,900 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMethow Field Institute: $12,200 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetNATIVE MOVEMENT: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGlobal Impact: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHaa Tooch Licheesh: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCOLUMBIA RIVER BIOREGIONAL EDUCATION PROJECT: $10,000 over 1y, 11% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Potlatch FundFirst Nations Develop…Inatai FoundationPhilanthropy NorthwestCharlotte y Martin Fo…Common Counsel Founda…Seventh Generation Fu…Seattle FoundationNdn Collective IncSocial Justice Fund N…ArtsfundUnited Way of King Co…
Potlatch FundWA80.5× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Potlatch Fund · First Nations Development Institute · Inatai Foundation · Philanthropy Northwest · Charlotte y Martin Foundation-Ima · Common Counsel Foundation · Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Inc · Seattle Foundation · Ndn Collective Inc · Social Justice Fund Northwest · Artsfund · United Way of King County

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 Na'ah Illahee Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Na'ah Illahee Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%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%
  • Elderberry Wisdom Farm: 56% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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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How do I get to Na'ah Illahee Fund?

Find your warmest path to Na'ah Illahee Fund 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 124 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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