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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…

$974k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$750k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$4.2MPublic Benefit$550kHuman Services$475kCommunity Improvement$242kArts & Culture$219kPhilanthropy$196kReligion$119kCivil Rights$90kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k16 grants · $219k
  • $250k+1 grant · $750k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$6.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (FY19–25, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%TIDES CENTER: $90k → 10%GENERATIONS INDIGENOUS WAYS: $10k → 18%NM ASIAN FAMILY CENTER: $20k → 14%NM CAFE: $30k → 23%TIDES CENTER: $87k → 10%VIZIONZ-SANKOFA: $20k → 14%TIDES CENTER: $8k → 10%NEW MEXICO ASIAN FAMILY CENTER: $20k → 14%LA PLAZITA INSTITUTE: $20k → 14%LA PLAZITA INSTITUTE: $20k → 14%SAAD K'IDILYE LANGUAGE NEST: $211k → 14%SAAD K'IDILYE LANGUAGE NEST: $141k → 14%SAAD K'IDILYE' LANGUAGE NEST: $15k → 14%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.9M · 20 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
9

Total granted

$4.9M
$288k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+27%

Still filing today

55%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $790k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitHealthArts & CultureOther
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

  • CF
    CENTER FOR CIVIC POLICY
    5× · 2017–2022 · $550k · revenue +127%
  • SC
    Sicangu Community Development Corporation
    4× · 2020–2025 · $242k · revenue +188%
  • EC
    ENDAZHI-NITAAWIGING CHARTER SCHOOL
    4× · 2022–2025 · $140k · revenue ×21 · 60% of their budget

Funded once

  • NDN COLLECTIVE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $90k · revenue -82%
  • TE
    TRIBAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENTS NATIONAL ASSEMBLYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $61k · revenue +147%
  • NC
    NM Comunidades En Accion Y De Fegraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +27%
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
Navajo Preparatory School Inc

To provide Educational Services to Native American Children near Farmington, NM

Education
2
Association of Chinese-American Engineers and Scientists of New Mexico
Science & Tech
3
The Indigenous Knowledge Collective

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,…

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4
Sovereign Energy

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.

Environment
5
Circle of Nations

To build academic achievement and foster healthy development of the whole child in an intertribal environment.

Education
6
Bold Futures Nm

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,…

Human Services
7
Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Council Inc

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.

Community Improvement
8
Community Power New Mexico
Community Improvement
9
Indigenous Women Rising Indigeous Women Rising
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10
Cihuapactli Collective

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 &…

Arts & Culture
11
New Mexico Association for the Education of Young Children

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,…

Education
12
NavajoStrong

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…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sicangu Community Development Corporation; 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.
04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 35 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/22
Grantees still filing
12/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY ACADEMY: $865,667 · OtherNATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY ACADEMYDEAP SCHOOL: $454,699 · OtherDEAP SCHOOLDREAM DINE CHARTER SCHOOL: $342,751 · OtherDREAM DINE CHARTER SCHOOLSIX DIRECTIONS INDIGENOUS SCHOOL: $298,161 · OtherSIX DIRECTIONS INDIGENOUS SCHOOLAmerican Indian Academy of Denver: $294,526 · OtherAmerican Indian Academy of DenverRAICES DEL SABOR XINAXHTLY COM SCH: $262,988 · OtherRAICES DEL SABOR XINAXHTLY COM SCHKHA P O COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $228,592 · OtherKHA P O COMMUNITY SCHOOLENDAZHI-NITAAWIGING CHARTER SCHOOL: $140,000 · Other+10 more: $244,788 · Other+10 moreTHE SEMILLA PROJECT: $750,000 · EducationTHE SEMILLA PROJECTNACA-INSPIRED SCHOOLS NETWORK: $546,250 · EducationNACA-INSPIRED SCHOOLS NET…Oceti Sakowin Community Academy: $60,000 · Education+1 more: $26,638 · EducationSaad K'idilye': $367,003 · Human ServicesSaad K'idily…TIDES CENTER: $184,833 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERLA PLAZITA INSTITUTE: $40,307 · Human ServicesLA PLAZITA I…NEW MEXICO ASIAN FAMILY CENTER: $40,000 · Human ServicesNEW MEXICO A…NM Comunidades En Accion Y De Fe: $30,000 · Human Services+2 more: $30,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR CIVIC POLICY: $550,000 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR…Sicangu Community Development Corporation: $242,065 · Community ImprovementNDN COLLECTIVE INC: $90,000 · Community ImprovementColorado Sun: $45,000 · Arts & CultureWAREHOUSE 505: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentMNI WICHONI HEALTH CIRCLE: $10,000 · Health
Other$3,132,172Education$1,382,888Human Services$692,143Public Benefit$550,000Community Improvement$332,065Arts & Culture$45,000Youth Development$20,000Health$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$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE SEMILLA PROJECT: $750,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCENTER FOR CIVIC POLICY: $550,000 over 5y, 8.3% of budgetNACA-INSPIRED SCHOOLS NETWORK: $546,250 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetSaad K'idilye': $367,003 over 3y, 27% of budgetAmerican Indian Academy of Denver: $294,526 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetSicangu Community Development Corporation: $242,065 over 4y, 13% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $184,833 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetENDAZHI-NITAAWIGING CHARTER SCHOOL: $140,000 over 4y, 60% of budgetNDN COLLECTIVE INC: $90,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRIBAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENTS NATIONAL ASSEMBLY: $61,491 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetOceti Sakowin Community Academy: $60,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetColorado Sun: $45,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLA PLAZITA INSTITUTE: $40,307 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCULTIVATING CODERS INC: $40,000 over 2y, 57% of budgetNEW MEXICO ASIAN FAMILY CENTER: $40,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetNM Comunidades En Accion Y De Fe: $30,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetAmy Biehl High School Foundation: $26,638 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetWAREHOUSE 505: $20,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetMNI WICHONI HEALTH CIRCLE: $10,000 over 1y, 4.8% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Albuquerque Community…WK Kellogg FoundationFirst Nations Develop…Marshall L and Perrin…Ndn Collective IncAmalgamated Charitabl…Western Conservation …Santa Fe Community Fo…NEO Philanthropy IncNew Venture FundRockefeller Philanthr…Tides Foundation
Albuquerque Community FoundationNM23.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Naca-Inspired Schools Network funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Naca-Inspired Schools Network. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%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
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Naca-Inspired Schools Network?

    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.

    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 35 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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