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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…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k16 grants · $219k
- $250k+1 grant · $750k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE SEMILLA PROJECT | $750,000 |
| WAKANYEJA TOKEYAHCI WOUNSPE TIPI | $25,000 |
| ENDAZHI NITAAWIGING | $25,000 |
| OCETI SAKOWIN ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY ACADEMY | $16,000 |
| SAAD K'IDILYE' LANGUAGE NEST | $15,000 |
| SIX DIRECTIONS INDIGENOUS SCHOOL | $13,000 |
| KHA'P'O COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| MNI WICHONI NEKICIZIN WOUNSPE | $10,000 |
| DREAM DINE CHARTER SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| MEDICINE BUTTE CDC | $10,000 |
| MNI WICHONI HEALTH CIRCLE | $10,000 |
| RAICES DEL SABER XINACHTLI COM | $10,000 |
| DEAP SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| CINNAMON CUNY | $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 (FY19–25, $692k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 73% 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.
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.
20 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $790k 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
- CFCENTER FOR CIVIC POLICY5× · 2017–2022 · $550k · revenue +127%
- SCSicangu Community Development Corporation4× · 2020–2025 · $242k · revenue +188%
- ECENDAZHI-NITAAWIGING CHARTER SCHOOL4× · 2022–2025 · $140k · revenue ×21 · 60% of their budget
Funded once
NDN COLLECTIVE INCone grant, 2022 · $90k · revenue -82%- TETRIBAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENTS NATIONAL ASSEMBLYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $61k · revenue +147%
- NCNM Comunidades En Accion Y De Fegraduatedone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +27%
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 provide Educational Services to Native American Children near Farmington, NM
The Indigenous Knowledge Collective is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that serves people in New Mexico and Arizona in a Native lead environment to sustain the revitalization of traditional existence of Native People through Art Lessons,…
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.
To build academic achievement and foster healthy development of the whole child in an intertribal environment.
Bold futures nm leads policy change, research, place-based organizing, and culture shift by and for women and people of color in new mexico. bold futures nm centers the lived experiences and expertise of those most impacted by an issue,…
To provide quality programs to support and meet the needs of our families and communities through prevention, training, education, health, and support to continue to grow and expand in the delivery of all services.
The Cihuapactli Collective's purpose is to provide healing for urban Indigenous Peoples from the diaspora. This is done by sharing wisdom, connecting resources, revitalizing Traditional Knowledge, promoting and advocating for health &…
The New Mexico Association for the Education of Young Children (NMAEYC) is a statewide nonprofit dedicated to advancing early childhood education. We support educators, families, and communities through professional development, advocacy,…
NavajoStrong was created to aid the Navajo community during the COVID-19 pandemic and economic crisis. We strive to honor our ancestors and empower the Din by working hard to help citizens who are affected by disease, poverty, and other…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sicangu Community Development Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Medicine Butte Cdc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
22 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. 22 of the 35 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 THE SEMILLA PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CIVIC POLICY ↗
- Who funds NACA-INSPIRED SCHOOLS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Saad K'idilye' ↗
- Who funds American Indian Academy of Denver ↗
- Who funds Sicangu Community Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds ENDAZHI-NITAAWIGING CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NDN COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds TRIBAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENTS NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ↗
- Who funds Oceti Sakowin Community Academy ↗
- Who funds Colorado Sun ↗
- Who funds LA PLAZITA INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CULTIVATING CODERS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO ASIAN FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds NM Comunidades En Accion Y De Fe ↗
- Who funds Amy Biehl High School Foundation ↗
- Who funds WAREHOUSE 505 ↗
- Who funds VIZIONZ SANKOFA ↗
- Who funds SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC ↗
- Who funds MEDICINE BUTTE CDC ↗
- Who funds MNI WICHONI HEALTH CIRCLE ↗
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: 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
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 Naca-Inspired Schools Network 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.
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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Find your warmest path to Naca-Inspired Schools Network 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.