· Public charity
National Indian Health Board
Established by the tribes to advocate as the united voice of federally recognized american indian and alaska native tribes, nihb seeks to reinforce tribal sovereignty, strengthen tribal health systems, secure resources, and build capacity to achieve the highest level of health and well-being for our people.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 30 grants below total $1,827,465 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,930,746 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $103,281 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $365k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+1 grant · $350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TULE RIVER HEALTH CENTER INC | $350,000 |
| HO-CHUNK NATION 1 | $176,500 |
| GREAT PLAINS TRIBAL LEADER'S HEALTH BOARD | $175,000 |
| SALT RIVER PIMA-MARICOPA | $166,000 |
| TURTLE MOUNTAIN BAND CHIPPEWA INDIANS | $150,000 |
| TUNICA-BILOXI TRIBE OF LOUISIANA | $116,500 |
| SONOMA COUNTY INDIAN HEALTH PROJECT | $95,000 |
| PONCA TRIBE OF NEBRASKA-1 (DELETED) | $75,000 |
| SUQUAMISH INDIAN TRIBE (1) | $60,000 |
| DOT LAKE VILLAGE | $50,000 |
| NORTON SOUND HEALTH CORPORATION | $45,000 |
| TUBA CITY REGIONAL HEALTH CARE CORPORATION | $38,000 |
| UNITED INDIAN HEALTH SERVICES INC | $37,250 |
| MATHEMATICA INC | $34,430 |
| GILA RIVER HEALTH CARE | $30,000 |
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 (FY19–20, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of National Indian Health Board’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +56% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $411k 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
- ANALASKA NATIVE TRIBAL HEALTH CONSORTIUM3× · 2020–2022 · $489k · revenue +59%
- USUNITED SOUTH AND EASTERN TRIBESINC2× · 2017–2021 · $478k · revenue +33%
- TRTULE RIVER INDIAN HEALTH CENTER INC2× · 2022–2024 · $365k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- OLORANSI LLCone grant, 2023 · $259k
- ACALEN CORPORATIONone grant, 2023 · $177k
- AIAMERICAN INDIAN CANCER FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $130k · revenue +37%
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.
Southern Indian Health Council is a Native American organization committed to protecting and improving the physical, mental, and spiritual health of our American Indian Community. We provide a comprehensive range of wellness, health care,…
Established by the tribes to advocate as the united voice of federally recognized american indian and alaska native tribes, nihb seeks to reinforce tribal sovereignty, strengthen tribal health systems, secure resources, and build capacity…
Seattle indian health board is a community health center that provides health and human services to its patients, while specializing in the care of native people. we are recognized as a leader in the promotion of health improvement for…
To help ensure the survival and healing of american indians and alaskan natives and the greater community by providing high quality, comprehensive health care and cultural services.
To strengthen and encourage the health and well-being of native americans.
To empower the american indian through exceptional healthcare.
The mission of sacramento american native health center is to continue and share the legacy of a healthy american indian/alaska native community based on cultural values delivered through a traditional, innovative and accessible…
To promote and provide quality services to improve the health and well-being of American Indians/Alaska Natives and other community members.
To provide health services to eligible american indians in the service areas of Glenn and Yolo counties and portions of Colusa, Butte and Tehama counties. Medical and dental services are provided to the general community as well.
To improve quality of life through comprehensive, self-empowered, culturally-sensitive healthcare and amazing customer service.
To work collaboratively toward a common vision that alaska natives are the healthiest people in the world, improve lives, and inspire good health.
Integrate community-based traditional knowledge into all facets of Native health care and education and to promote wellness and balance for Indigenous peoples.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Toiyabe Indian Health Project and the most unlike its peers is American Indian Cancer Foundation. 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 33 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 137 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 ALASKA NATIVE TRIBAL HEALTH CONSORTIUM ↗
- Who funds UNITED SOUTH AND EASTERN TRIBESINC ↗
- Who funds TULE RIVER INDIAN HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT PLAINS TRIBAL LEADERS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds INTER TRIBAL COUNCIL OF ARIZONA INC ↗
- Who funds ALBUQUERQUE AREA INDIAN HEALTH BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA RURAL INDIAN HEALTH BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST PORTLAND AREA INDIAN HEALTH BOARD ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SONOMA COUNTY INDIAN HEALTH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST TRIBAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds United Indian Health Services Inc ↗
- Who funds TUBA CITY REGIONAL HEALTH CARE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds American Indian Health Service of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Southern Plains Tribal Health Board Foundation ↗
- Who funds CARDEA SERVICES ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER ↗
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 · Association of Tribal Archives Libraries & Museums · Wounded Warriors Family Support Inc · National Congress of American Indians Fund · Native American Agriculture Fund · Indian Land Tenure Foundation · Ndn Collective Inc · The Notah Begay III Foundation Inc · Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board · National Association of Tribal Historic Officers Inc · Great Plains Tribal Leaders Health · Na'ah Illahee Fund
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 Indian Health Board 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.
- Southern Plains Tribal Health Board Foundation — 83% of income from government
- Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board — 70% 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.