· Public charity
National Congress of American Indians Fund
American indian and alaska native leaders and their communitites.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 51% of NATIONAL CONGRESS OF AMERICAN INDIANS FUND’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 81 grants below total $2,969,489 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,972,632 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,003,143 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 · FY2021
- Under $10k9 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k54 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k18 grants · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOBOBA BAND OF LUISENO INDIANS | $167,826 |
| STRONG HEARTED NATIVE WOMEN'S | $157,369 |
| MODOC NATION | $155,394 |
| PALA BAND OF MISSION INDIANS | $144,914 |
| BGC SNOHOMISH COUNTY | $122,873 |
| PENOBSCOT INDIAN NATION | $98,457 |
| BGC OF DELAWARE COUNTY | $91,220 |
| BGC ADAIR COUNTY SCHOOLS | $89,305 |
| BIG SANDY RANCHERIA BAND OF WESTERN | $87,352 |
| MECHOOPDA INDIAN TRIBE OF CHICO | $86,770 |
| WASHOE TRIBE OF NEVADA AND CALIFORN | $83,982 |
| BGC SOUTHCENTRAL ALASKA | $81,790 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ROSEBUD | $79,649 |
| BGC FLATHEAD RESERVATION & LAKE | $67,824 |
| ONEIDA NATION | $63,779 |
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 (FY17–21, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% 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 +77% since the first grant, against +50% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2021, 34 since wound down; 52 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M 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
- NINATIONAL INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ASSOCIATION3× · 2017–2019 · $811k · revenue +44%
- NINATIONAL INDIAN HEALTH BOARD3× · 2017–2019 · $482k · revenue +97%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY4× · 2017–2021 · $479k · revenue +93%
Funded once
- AFALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETYone grant, 2020 · $325k · revenue -46%
- GPGREAT PLAINS TRIBAL CHAIRMEN'S ASSOone grant, 2020 · $303k
- FIFIRSTPIC INCone grant, 2020 · $137k
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.
The promotion of the health, social, educational, vocational and character development of youth in native american communities served by the native american club affiliates (na boys & girls clubs) of boys & girls clubs of america.
Carrying the lifelong legacy, sacrifice, and tradition of our ancestors to contribute to the betterment for the lifelong success, enrichment, and wellness of yakama nation youth and future generations.
Boys and girls club of the three affiliated tribes (organization) is a non-profit organization that strives to inspire and enable all young people especially from disadvantaged circumstances, to realize their full potential as productive,…
Promote healthy development alternatives for community youth.
To empower all youth, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens.
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring and responsible citizens.
The mission of the red lake nation boys & girls club (the "club") is to inspire and enable all young people, especially those from the red lake nation, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, and caring individuals.
To inspire and enable all young people to reach their full potential as caring, productive, and responsible citizens.
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
To enable our young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their potential.
To inspire and enable all young people to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.
The mission of the clubs is to enable and inspire the youth of our area to reach their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens. the clubs offers core programs designed to engage youth with peers and caring adults to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cherokee Youth Center Boys & Girls Club and the most unlike its peers is Pointe-Au-Chien Indian Tribe. 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 29 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 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
81 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. 81 of the 279 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 NATIONAL INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INDIAN HEALTH BOARD ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds National Indian Education Assn ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SCOTTSDALE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ROSEBUD ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TAHLEQUAH OK ↗
- Who funds University of Nevada Reno Foundation ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ADAIR COUNTY SCHOOOLS ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Southcentral Alaska ↗
- Who funds Strong Hearted Native Womens Coalition Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF OTTAWA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DELAWARE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SEQUOYAH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE FLATHEAD RESERVATION AND LAKE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NOWATA ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CHELSEA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX INDIAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREEN COUNTR ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CASCADE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds WOODLAND BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE MISSOURI RIVER AREA ↗
- Who funds THE AFN EDUCATION FUND ↗
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 · Boys & Girls Clubs of America · Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Group Return) · National Indian Health Board · Ndn Collective Inc · Boys & Girls Clubs in Indian Country Inc · Native American Agriculture Fund · Association of Tribal Archives Libraries & Museums · Indian Land Tenure Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Resources Legacy Fund · Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Inc
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 National Congress of American Indians Fund 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.
- Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians Economic Development Corporation — 28% of income from government
- National Indian Child Welfare Association — 0% 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.