Washington, D.C. · Public charity
National Congress of American Indians Fund
American indian and alaska native leaders and their communitites. The organization also facilitates partnerships with tribal communities that educate the public, non-native organizations, and other policymakers about working with, and supporting the agendas of, native communities and their governments.
- $4.0M
- Granted FY2021
- 81
- Itemized grants FY2021
- 79
- Organizations funded FY2021
- 66%
- First-time grantees FY2021
- Itemized, FY2021
- $3.0M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2021
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2021
- $167,826
- Organizations funded a year
- 47 to 186
- FY2017 to FY2021
- States reached, FY2021
- 23
- Total assets, FY2021
- $12M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2021, 66% of the organizations National Congress of American Indians Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 62% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationHealthArts & CultureCivil RightsOther
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.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2021 | 79 | $3.0M | 66% |
| FY2020 | 186 | $3.6M | 88% |
| FY2019 | 50 | $1.5M | 16% |
| FY2018 | 51 | $2.1M | 16% |
| FY2017 | 47 | $1.7M | n/a |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.
Health$4.7MYouth Development$1.6MCrime & Legal$1.1MHuman Services$1.0MEducation$854kCivil Rights$719kArts & Culture$557kCommunity Improvement$516kOther$0
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
AK
ME
WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
SD
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
AL
GA
TX
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Indian Child Welfare Association | $811,424 | 3 | 12% |
| National Indian Health Board | $482,051 | 3 | 4% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Snohomish County | $479,159 | 4 | 1% |
| National Indian Education Assn | $427,630 | 3 | 12% |
| Alliance for a Just Society | $325,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Greater Scottsdale Inc | $270,220 | 5 | 1% |
| Boys and Girls Club of Rosebud | $265,978 | 5 | 7% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Tahlequah Ok | $259,740 | 4 | 10% |
| University of Nevada Reno Foundation | $247,365 | 3 | n/a |
| Boys and Girls Club of Adair County Schoools | $227,767 | 4 | 26% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Indian Child Welfare Association | $811,424 | 3 | 12% |
| National Indian Health Board | $482,051 | 3 | 4% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Snohomish County | $479,159 | 4 | 1% |
| National Indian Education Assn | $427,630 | 3 | 12% |
| Alliance for a Just Society | $325,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Greater Scottsdale Inc | $270,220 | 5 | 1% |
| Boys and Girls Club of Rosebud | $265,978 | 5 | 7% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Tahlequah Ok | $259,740 | 4 | 10% |
| University of Nevada Reno Foundation | $247,365 | 3 | n/a |
| Boys and Girls Club of Adair County Schoools | $227,767 | 4 | 26% |
| Modoc Nation | $182,982 | 2 | n/a |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Southcentral Alaska | $180,837 | 3 | 1% |
| Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians | $167,826 | 1 | n/a |
| Strong Hearted Native Womens Coalition Inc | $157,369 | 1 | 15% |
| Pala Band of Mission Indians | $154,539 | 2 | n/a |
| Kickapoo Tribe in KS | $152,659 | 5 | n/a |
| Boys & Girls Club of Ottawa County | $137,523 | 5 | 10% |
| Boys and Girls Club of Delaware County Inc | $136,983 | 4 | 20% |
| Boys and Girls Club of Sequoyah County | $129,038 | 4 | 16% |
| Boys and Girls Club of the Flathead Reservation and Lake County | $127,695 | 4 | 2% |
| Bay Mills Indian Community | $126,546 | 4 | n/a |
| Boys and Girls Club of Nowata | $126,431 | 5 | 6% |
| Stockbridge-Munsee Community | $122,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Boys & Girls Club of Chelsea Inc | $121,721 | 5 | 11% |
| Native American Rights Fund Inc | $112,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Phoenix Indian Center Inc | $108,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Penobscot Indian Nation | $98,457 | 1 | n/a |
| Boys and Girls Club of Green Countr | $96,655 | 5 | 6% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Cascade County | $94,411 | 4 | 4% |
| Woodland Boys and Girls Club Inc | $92,996 | 4 | 8% |
| Boys & Girls Club of the Missouri River Area | $91,705 | 3 | 6% |
| The Afn Education Fund | $91,200 | 1 | n/a |
| Big Sandy Rancheria Band of Western | $87,352 | 1 | n/a |
| Mechoopda Indian Tribe of Chico | $86,770 | 1 | n/a |
| Washoe Tribe of Nv and Ca | $83,982 | 1 | n/a |
| Akwesasne Boys & Girls Club | $82,092 | 5 | 3% |
| Oneida Tribe Elderly Services | $73,779 | 1 | n/a |
| Boys & Girls Club of the Northern Plains Inc | $72,244 | 4 | 1% |
| Poarch Band of Creek Indians | $71,970 | 3 | n/a |
| Waterville Area Boys & Girls Club | $70,315 | 4 | 2% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Darlington Inc | $68,865 | 4 | 11% |
| Walker River Paiute Tribe | $67,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Boys and Girls Club of Durant | $61,566 | 3 | n/a |
| Pascua Yaqui Tribe | $58,506 | 3 | n/a |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Lewis Clark Valley Inc | $56,062 | 3 | 1% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Lac Courte Ore | $56,010 | 3 | 3% |
| Boys & Girls Club of White Earth | $54,592 | 3 | n/a |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of the Twin Cities | $48,879 | 3 | 0% |
| Mashkisibi Boys and Girls Club Inc | $48,877 | 4 | 18% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Standing Rock | $47,598 | 3 | 8% |
| American Indian Health and Family Services of Southeastern Mi Inc | $47,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Leech Lake Area Inc | $41,651 | 4 | 3% |
| Boys & Girls Club of San Juan County | $40,363 | 1 | 4% |
| Bellwether Education Partners Inc | $37,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Club of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation | $37,343 | 3 | 1% |
| Four Directions Inc | $36,400 | 1 | n/a |
| Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians | $35,606 | 1 | n/a |
| Boys and Girls Club of the Northern Cheyenne Nation | $34,564 | 3 | 2% |
| Pit River Tribe | $33,817 | 1 | n/a |
| Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation | $33,031 | 1 | n/a |
| Inter-Tribal Council of Nevada | $31,757 | 1 | n/a |
| Stewardship Utah Foundation | $31,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Sault Tribe Indian Community | $31,481 | 2 | n/a |
| Pueblo of Santa Ana | $29,969 | 1 | n/a |
| Okay Owingeh Housing Authority | $29,367 | 3 | n/a |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Valley Inc | $29,197 | 3 | 0% |
| Bgc Wilson Inc | $25,965 | 2 | n/a |
| Turtle Mountain Worship Center | $25,693 | 1 | n/a |
| Lhaq'Temish Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| New Mexico Community Capital | $25,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Northwest Indian College | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Cherokee Youth Center Boys & Girls Club | $24,116 | 2 | 1% |
| McCurtain County Boys & Girls Club of the Choctaw Nation Inc | $23,323 | 2 | 5% |
| Blackfeet Tribe | $22,040 | 2 | n/a |
| Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians | $19,031 | 1 | 3% |
| Seneca Nation of Indians | $18,895 | 1 | n/a |
| Black Hills Center for American Indian Health | $16,500 | 1 | 1% |
| B&GC of Marimn Health (Benewah Med Ctr) | $15,931 | 1 | n/a |
| Boys and Girls Club of Lodge Grass | $15,013 | 1 | 7% |
| Machis Lower Creek Indian Tribe of Alabama | $15,000 | 1 | 15% |
| Lower Muskogee Creek Tribe | $14,285 | 1 | 3% |
| Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation | $11,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians | $10,556 | 1 | n/a |
| The Navajo Nation | $10,408 | 1 | n/a |
| Mowa Band of Choctaw Indian Commission | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Pointe-Au-Chien Indian Tribe | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Oklahoma City University | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Naeva | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Indigenous Education Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Indian Chamber Education Fund | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Native American Business Association | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Midwest Alliance of Sovereign Tribes | $10,000 | 1 | 9% |
| National Urban Indian Family Coalition | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Akiak Native Community | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Yankton Sioux Tribe | $9,999 | 1 | n/a |
| Susanville Rancheria | $7,115 | 1 | n/a |
| Catawba Indian Nation | $6,991 | 1 | n/a |
| Four Bands Community Fund Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Fresno American Indian Health Project | $5,103 | 1 | 0% |
| Waccamaw Siouan Indian Tribe Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Pueblo of Acoma | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Karuk Tribe | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Salamatof Tribal Council | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Tetlin Village Council | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Qutekcak Native Tribe | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hualapai Tribe | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| California Indian Legal Services Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Southeastern Mvskoke Nation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Haliwa Saponi Tribe Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Coharie Intra-Tribal Council Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| National Indian Justice Center | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Sac and Fox Nation | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American Indian Women of Proud Nations | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cherokee Tribe of Northeast Alabama | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lipan Apache Tribe of Texas Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ione Band of Miwok Indians | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Native American Pathways | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Nooksack Indian Tribe | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Alaska Village Initiatives | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Tolowa Dee-Ni' Nation | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Greenville Rancheria | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Santa Clara Pueblo | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Alaska Federation of Natives | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Ccthita | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bear River Band of the Rohnerville Rancheria | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lummi Nation | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ilisagvik College | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Laguna Rainbow Corporation | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Pee Dee Indian Tribe of South Carolina | $5,000 | 1 | 8% |
| California Indian Museum & Cultural Center | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Mending Wings | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Pit River Health Service | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Indian Cancer Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Robinson Rancheria | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sitka Tribe of Alaska | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 139 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
National Congress of American Indians Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 72 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 72.
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.
First Nations Development InstituteCO97.5× affinity54 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
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
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.
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About National Congress of American Indians Fund
- How much does National Congress of American Indians Fund give?
- National Congress of American Indians Fund reported 81 itemized grants totaling $2,969,489, out of $3,972,632 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 47 and 186 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
- What does National Congress of American Indians Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Health (39%), Youth Development (14%), Crime & Legal (9%).
- Who are National Congress of American Indians Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: National Indian Child Welfare Association ($811k), National Indian Health Board ($482k), Boys and Girls Clubs of Snohomish County ($479k).
- Does National Congress of American Indians Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2021, 66% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as National Congress of American Indians Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include First Nations Development Institute, Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Group Return).
- Where is National Congress of American Indians Fund based?
- National Congress of American Indians Fund is based in DC.
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More from the funding graph
The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home