New Mexico · Public charity
Naca-Inspired Schools Network
Nisn's mission is to transform indigenous education by engaging communities, building networked schools of academic excellence and cultural relevance, and serving indigenous students from early learning to adulthood so that they are secure in their identity, healthy, and holistically prepared as lifelong learners and leaders in their…
- $974k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $750,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 16
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.3M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Naca-Inspired Schools Network funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 17 | $969k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $603k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $955k | 30% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $668k | 42% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $470k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $804k | 31% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $819k | 57% |
| FY2017 | 7 | $690k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Native American Community Academy | $865,667 | 8 | n/a |
| The Semilla Project | $750,000 | 1 | 12% |
| Center for Civic Policy | $550,000 | 5 | 8% |
| Naca-Inspired Schools Network | $546,250 | 2 | 4% |
| Deap School | $454,699 | 8 | n/a |
| Saad K'idilye' | $367,003 | 3 | 27% |
| Dream Dine Charter School | $342,751 | 7 | n/a |
| Six Directions Indigenous School | $298,161 | 8 | n/a |
| American Indian Academy of Denver | $294,526 | 2 | 9% |
| Raices del Sabor Xinaxhtly Com Sch | $262,988 | 6 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Native American Community Academy | $865,667 | 8 | n/a |
| The Semilla Project | $750,000 | 1 | 12% |
| Center for Civic Policy | $550,000 | 5 | 8% |
| Naca-Inspired Schools Network | $546,250 | 2 | 4% |
| Deap School | $454,699 | 8 | n/a |
| Saad K'idilye' | $367,003 | 3 | 27% |
| Dream Dine Charter School | $342,751 | 7 | n/a |
| Six Directions Indigenous School | $298,161 | 8 | n/a |
| American Indian Academy of Denver | $294,526 | 2 | 9% |
| Raices del Sabor Xinaxhtly Com Sch | $262,988 | 6 | n/a |
| Sicangu Community Development Corporation | $242,065 | 4 | 13% |
| Kha P O Community School | $228,592 | 6 | n/a |
| Endazhi-Nitaawiging Charter School | $140,000 | 4 | 60% |
| Ndn Collective Inc | $90,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Tribal Education Departments National Assembly | $61,491 | 1 | 10% |
| Oceti Sakowin Community Academy | $60,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Colorado Sun | $45,000 | 3 | 0% |
| La Plazita Institute | $40,307 | 2 | 2% |
| Cultivating Coders Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 57% |
| New Mexico Asian Family Center | $40,000 | 2 | 2% |
| NM Comunidades En Accion Y De Fe | $30,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Mni Wichoni Nakicizin Wounspe | $30,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Amy Biehl High School Foundation | $26,638 | 2 | 9% |
| South Valley Academy | $26,388 | 2 | n/a |
| Warehouse 505 | $20,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Vizionz Sankofa | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Seven Generation Fund | $19,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cinnamon Cuny | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Medicine Butte CDC | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mni Wichoni Health Circle | $10,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Emergence LLC | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($42k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Naca-Inspired Schools Network supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Albuquerque Community Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · First Nations Development Institute · Marshall L and Perrine D McCune Charitable Foundation Inc · Ndn Collective Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Western Conservation Foundation · Santa Fe Community Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · New Venture Fund · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Tides Foundation
How this is measured
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About Naca-Inspired Schools Network
- How much does Naca-Inspired Schools Network give?
- Naca-Inspired Schools Network reported 17 grants totaling $974,112 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Naca-Inspired Schools Network fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (68%), Public Benefit (9%), Human Services (8%).
- Who are Naca-Inspired Schools Network's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Native American Community Academy ($866k), The Semilla Project ($750k), Center for Civic Policy ($550k).
- Does Naca-Inspired Schools Network fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Naca-Inspired Schools Network?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Albuquerque Community Foundation, WK Kellogg Foundation, First Nations Development Institute.
- Where is Naca-Inspired Schools Network based?
- Naca-Inspired Schools Network is based in NM.
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