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· Public charity

National Congress of American Indians Fund

American indian and alaska native leaders and their communitites.

$4.0M
Granted FY2021
81
Grants FY2021
23
States reached
$168k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2021 · 81 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 81 grants below total $2,969,489, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,972,632 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,003,143 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k9 grants · $68k
  • $10k–50k54 grants · $1.1M
  • $50k–250k18 grants · $1.8M
$20,000
Median grant
23
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PEE DEE INDIAN TRIBE: $5k → 30%MOWA BAND OF CHOCTAW INDIANS: $10k → 19%HALIWA-SAPONI INDIAN TRIBE: $5k → 20%WACCAMAW SIOUAN INDIAN TRIBE: $5k → 21%RURAL UTAH PROJECT EDUCATION FUND: $22k → 8%STRONG HEARTED NATIVE WOMEN'S: $157k → 11%NATIONAL INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ASSOC: $377k → 12%RURAL UTAH PROJECT EDUCATION FUND: $10k → 8%NATIONAL INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ASSOCIATION INC: $324k → 12%NATIONAL INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ASSOC: $110k → 14%PHOENIX INDIAN CENTER INC: $98k → 11%PHOENIX INDIAN CENTER INC: $10k → 11%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.

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
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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.3M · 61 repeat orgs$4.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +77% since the first grant, against +50% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
166

Total granted

$7.3M
$2.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+77%
+50%

Still filing today

59%
21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
Youth DevelopmentEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementHealthArts & 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

  • NI
    NATIONAL INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $811k · revenue +44%
  • NI
    NATIONAL INDIAN HEALTH BOARD
    3× · 2017–2019 · $482k · revenue +97%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY
    4× · 2017–2021 · $479k · revenue +93%

Funded once

  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY
    one grant, 2020 · $325k · revenue -46%
  • GP
    GREAT PLAINS TRIBAL CHAIRMEN'S ASSO
    one grant, 2020 · $303k
  • FI
    FIRSTPIC INC
    one grant, 2020 · $137k
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
Boys & Girls Clubs in Indian Country Inc

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.

Youth Development
2
Boys and Girls Club of the Yakama Nation

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.

Youth Development
3
Boys & Girls Club of the Three Affiliated Tribes

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,…

Youth Development
4
Boys and Girls Club of Gallup

Promote healthy development alternatives for community youth.

Youth Development
5
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Northwoods Inc

To empower all youth, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens.

Youth Development
6
Boys and Girls Club of Augusta/Waynesboro

To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring and responsible citizens.

Youth Development
7
Red Lake Nation Boys and Girls Club

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.

Youth Development
8
Boys & Girls Clubs of the North Valley

To inspire and enable all young people to reach their full potential as caring, productive, and responsible citizens.

Youth Development
9
Boys and Girls Club of Glacier Country

To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.

Youth Development
10
Boys and Girls Club of Bartlesville

To enable our young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their potential.

Youth Development
11
Boys and Girls Clubs of Siouxland Inc

To inspire and enable all young people to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.

Youth Development
12
Boys & Girls Club of Northwest Colo

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…

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cherokee Youth Center Boys & Girls Club; 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.
04the grantee network

81 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
36
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/81
Grantees still filing
66/81
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL INDIAN HEALTH BOARD: $482,051 · OtherNATIONAL INDIAN HEALTH BOARDGREAT PLAINS TRIBAL CHAIRMEN'S ASSO: $302,500 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ROSEBUD: $265,978 · Other+147 more: $4,791,950 · Other+147 moreBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $479,159 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SNOH…BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SCOTTSDALE INC: $270,220 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TAHLEQUAH OK: $259,740 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TAHLEQ…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ADAIR COUNTY SCHOOOLS: $227,767 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ADAIR…Boys & Girls Clubs of Southcentral Alaska: $180,837 · Youth DevelopmentBoys & Girls Clubs of Southc…BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF OTTAWA COUNTY: $137,523 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DELAWARE COUNTY INC: $136,983 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NOWATA: $126,431 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CHELSEA INC: $121,721 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREEN COUNTR: $96,655 · Youth Development+14 more: $798,094 · Youth Development+14 moreNATIONAL INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ASSOCIATION: $811,424 · Human ServicesNATIONAL IN…Strong Hearted Native Womens Coalition Inc: $157,369 · Human ServicesStrong Hear…PHOENIX INDIAN CENTER INC: $108,000 · Human ServicesPHOENIX IND…+5 more: $61,500 · Human Services+5 moreNational Indian Education Assn: $427,630 · EducationNational …University of Nevada Reno Foundation: $247,365 · EducationUniversit…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SEQUOYAH COUNTY: $129,038 · EducationBOYS AND …AKWESASNE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $82,092 · EducationAKWESASNE…BELLWETHER EDUCATION PARTNERS INC: $37,500 · Education+5 more: $74,031 · Education+5 moreALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY: $325,000 · Community ImprovementNEW MEXICO COMMUNITY CAPITAL: $25,000 · Community Improvement+4 more: $31,000 · Community ImprovementBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE FLATHEAD RESERVATION AND LAKE COUNTY: $127,695 · Recreation & SportsNATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC: $112,500 · Civil Rights
Other$5,842,479Youth Development$2,835,130Human Services$1,138,293Education$997,656Community Improvement$381,000Recreation & Sports$127,695Civil Rights$112,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetNATIONAL INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ASSOCIATION: $811,424 over 3y, 12% of budgetNATIONAL INDIAN HEALTH BOARD: $482,051 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $479,159 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetNational Indian Education Assn: $427,630 over 3y, 12% of budgetALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY: $325,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SCOTTSDALE INC: $270,220 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ROSEBUD: $265,978 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TAHLEQUAH OK: $259,740 over 4y, 9.7% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ADAIR COUNTY SCHOOOLS: $227,767 over 4y, 26% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Southcentral Alaska: $180,837 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetStrong Hearted Native Womens Coalition Inc: $157,369 over 1y, 15% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF OTTAWA COUNTY: $137,523 over 5y, 10% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DELAWARE COUNTY INC: $136,983 over 4y, 20% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SEQUOYAH COUNTY: $129,038 over 4y, 16% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE FLATHEAD RESERVATION AND LAKE COUNTY: $127,695 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NOWATA: $126,431 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CHELSEA INC: $121,721 over 5y, 11% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC: $112,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPHOENIX INDIAN CENTER INC: $108,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREEN COUNTR: $96,655 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CASCADE COUNTY: $94,411 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetWOODLAND BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC: $92,996 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE MISSOURI RIVER AREA: $91,705 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetAKWESASNE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $82,092 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE NORTHERN PLAINS INC: $72,244 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetWATERVILLE AREA BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $70,315 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DARLINGTON INC: $68,865 over 4y, 11% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LEWIS CLARK VALLEY INC: $56,062 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LAC COURTE ORE: $56,010 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES: $48,879 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMASHKISIBI BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC: $48,877 over 4y, 18% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Standing Rock: $47,598 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN HEALTH AND FAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHEASTERN MI INC: $47,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LEECH LAKE AREA INC: $41,651 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of San Juan County: $40,363 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetBELLWETHER EDUCATION PARTNERS INC: $37,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE PRAIRIE BAND POTAWATOMI NATION: $37,343 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE NORTHERN CHEYENNE NATION: $34,564 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetSTEWARDSHIP UTAH FOUNDATION: $31,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VALLEY INC: $29,197 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLHAQ'TEMISH FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNEW MEXICO COMMUNITY CAPITAL: $25,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetNORTHWEST INDIAN COLLEGE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHEROKEE YOUTH CENTER BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $24,116 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMcCurtain County Boys & Girls Club of the Choctaw Nation Inc: $23,323 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetSOBOBA BAND OF LUISENO INDIANS: $19,031 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetBlack Hills Center for American Indian Health: $16,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Lodge Grass: $15,013 over 1y, 6.6% 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.

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 Develop…Boys & Girls Clubs of…Boys & Girls Clubs of…National Indian Healt…Ndn Collective IncBoys & Girls Clubs in…Native American Agric…Association of Tribal…Indian Land Tenure Fo…National Fish and Wil…Resources Legacy FundSeventh Generation Fu…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization National Congress of American Indians Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Congress of American Indians Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 28%
  • Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians Economic Development Corporation: 28% of income from government
  • National Indian Child Welfare Association: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
31report 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.

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 279 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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