How much does Native American Agriculture Fund give?

Native American Agriculture Fund reported 110 itemized grants totaling $14,094,688, out of $15,410,671 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 81 and 100 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.

What does Native American Agriculture Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (27%), Community Improvement (20%), Education (10%).

Who are Native American Agriculture Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Akiptan Inc ($9.0M), Four Bands Community Fund Inc ($3.5M), Native Agriculture Education Fellowship Program ($3.0M).

Does Native American Agriculture Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Native American Agriculture Fund accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Native American Agriculture Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include First Nations Development Institute, Ndn Collective Inc, Northwest Area Foundation.

Where is Native American Agriculture Fund based?

Native American Agriculture Fund is based in ND.

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Native American Agriculture Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$15M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 110
Itemized grants FY2024: 81
Organizations funded FY2023: 21%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $14M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $49,451
Largest grant, FY2024: $2,804,000
Organizations funded a year: 81 to 100; FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 28
Total assets, FY2024: $177M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 21% of the organizations Native American Agriculture Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesEnvironmentFood & NutritionArts & 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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	109	$14M	32%
FY2023	81	$10M	21%
FY2022	100	$9.9M	54%
FY2021	96	$16M	n/a

98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$18MCommunity Improvement$14MEducation$6.8MArts & Culture$2.7MEnvironment$2.3MCivil Rights$2.0MHuman Services$1.2MYouth Development$876kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Akiptan Inc	$8,989,172	4	37%
Four Bands Community Fund Inc	$3,531,619	4	16%
Native Agriculture Education Fellowship Program	$3,000,000	1	100%
Intertribal Agriculture Council	$1,398,335	3	16%
The Lakota Fund Incorporated	$1,251,453	3	12%
Wind River Development Fund	$1,041,549	3	21%
Northwest Native Development Fund	$918,109	3	15%
Northern Shores Community Development	$907,173	3	89%
United Tribes Technical College	$694,999	2	1%
Ho-Chunk Community Capital	$450,856	4	98%

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All grantees of Native American Agriculture Fund by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Akiptan Inc	$8,989,172	4	37%
Four Bands Community Fund Inc	$3,531,619	4	16%
Native Agriculture Education Fellowship Program	$3,000,000	1	100%
Intertribal Agriculture Council	$1,398,335	3	16%
The Lakota Fund Incorporated	$1,251,453	3	12%
Wind River Development Fund	$1,041,549	3	21%
Northwest Native Development Fund	$918,109	3	15%
Northern Shores Community Development	$907,173	3	89%
United Tribes Technical College	$694,999	2	1%
Ho-Chunk Community Capital	$450,856	4	98%
Owens Valley Indian Water Commission	$443,977	2	n/a
Tolani Lake Enterprises Inc	$433,340	3	8%
Board of Regents Nevada System of Higher Education	$404,809	2	n/a
College of the Menominee Nation	$382,063	4	2%
Makoce Agriculture Development	$360,000	3	18%
New Mexico Community Capital	$344,396	3	5%
Tanka Fund	$336,000	4	11%
Wabanaki Health & Wellness Npc	$315,000	2	1%
Tohono O'Odham Community College	$307,586	1	1%
Ma Ka Hana Ka Ike Building Program	$290,000	3	9%
Choctaw Home Finance Corporation	$288,000	1	6%
Indian Pueblo Cultural Center	$268,856	4	2%
Spruce Root Inc	$260,036	3	6%
Zuni Youth Enrichment Project	$241,258	4	7%
Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians	$234,086	2	n/a
Fort Belknap Indian Community	$220,438	3	n/a
Wisconsin Tribal Conservation Advisory Council Inc	$217,481	2	25%
Native Forward Scholars Fund	$215,000	3	1%
Port Gamble S'Klallam Foundation	$205,594	2	13%
Island Mountain Community Development Financial Institution Inc	$202,500	1	48%
Colusa Indian Community Council	$198,172	1	n/a
Walker River Paiute Tribe	$198,100	4	n/a
Klamath Trinity Resource Conservation District	$192,500	3	n/a
Rosebud Economic Development Corporation	$191,901	2	n/a
Dream of Wild Health	$188,750	4	3%
Ahtna Intertribal Resource Commission	$188,246	2	10%
North Leupp Family Farms	$183,863	2	90%
Lumbee Land Development Inc	$180,689	2	0%
Northwest Native Chamber	$180,000	1	3%
Farm Journal Agricultural Foundation	$180,000	1	3%
North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems	$180,000	1	11%
Nixyaawii Community Financial Services	$180,000	1	12%
Wozu Inc	$180,000	1	7%
Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana	$180,000	1	n/a
Naca-Inspired Schools Network	$179,917	2	2%
Cheyenne Arapaho Tribe	$178,285	1	n/a
Dine Community Development Corporation	$176,425	3	34%
Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa	$175,566	1	n/a
Healthy Futures Inc	$170,288	3	70%
Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation	$168,176	2	n/a
Native360 Loan Fund Inc	$168,111	3	4%
Kodiak Archipelago Leadership Institute	$158,128	2	39%
Ecotrust	$152,311	3	1%
Kalispel Indian Community of the Kalispel Reservation	$150,244	2	n/a
Native American Horse Educationfoundation	$150,000	2	n/a
University of Arizona	$149,980	2	n/a
Buffalo Nations Grasslands Alliance	$135,000	2	38%
Homestead Community Development Corp	$132,048	4	2%
Keyah Advanced Rural Manufacturing Alliance	$131,781	1	69%
The Peoples Partners for Community Development	$128,500	2	3%
Seneca Nation of Indians	$127,500	2	n/a
Center of Southwest Culture Inc	$126,407	4	3%
Nakoda-Aaniih Credit Agency	$126,000	2	n/a
Natural Resources Department	$126,000	2	n/a
American Indian College Fund	$123,017	1	0%
Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association Inc	$109,110	2	0%
American Indian Alaska Native Tourism Association Inc	$107,255	2	8%
Cal Poly Humboldt Sponsored Programs Foundation	$107,051	2	0%
The Hopi Foundation Lomasumi'Nangwtukwsiwmani	$100,000	1	9%
Thunder Valley Community Development Cor	$100,000	1	1%
Sitting Bull College	$100,000	1	0%
Spokane Tribe of Indians	$99,963	1	n/a
Sinte Gleska College Center Inc	$99,570	1	n/a
Wishtoyo Foundation Dba Wishtoyo Chumash Foundation	$92,491	2	1%
Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe	$90,000	1	n/a
Woodland Financial Partners	$90,000	1	11%
NACDC Financial Services Inc	$89,695	3	1%
Cheyenne River Youth Project Inc	$86,518	4	1%
California Indian Museum & Cultural Center	$83,710	3	4%
Painted Desert Demonstration Projects Inc	$81,500	3	1%
Methow Field Institute	$75,986	3	26%
South Puget Intertribal Planning Agency	$75,000	1	0%
Stone Child College	$74,995	1	1%
Bad River Band of Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians	$73,753	2	n/a
Little Priest Tribal College	$70,502	2	1%
Amah Mutsun Land Trust	$70,000	2	2%
Dine College	$66,650	2	n/a
National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development	$58,500	2	1%
Peacekeeper Society	$53,199	1	6%
Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board	$50,940	1	0%
Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma	$49,451	1	n/a
Kashia Band of Pomo Indians of The	$49,450	1	n/a
US Farming and Ranching Foundation	$46,500	1	1%
Ebci Division of Commerce	$45,000	2	n/a
Blackfeet Nation Stockgrowers	$45,000	2	n/a
Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council	$45,000	1	0%
Center for Rural Affairs	$41,220	3	0%
Sac & Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa	$40,000	2	n/a
Blackfeet Nation Agriculture Development Foundation	$40,000	2	n/a
Fond Du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa	$37,500	2	n/a
Sitka Tribe of Alaska	$37,015	2	n/a
Takshanuk Watershed Council	$35,174	2	6%
American Indian Business Leaders	$35,000	2	2%
Copper River Native Association Inc	$34,993	2	0%
Sicangu Community Development Corporation	$34,833	2	1%
Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College	$33,750	1	n/a
Three Sisters Gardens	$30,000	2	25%
Fresno American Indian Health Project	$28,176	1	1%
Oklahoma State University Foundation	$25,000	2	0%
Lakota Youth Development	$25,000	2	4%
Heart of America Indian Center	$22,144	1	3%
Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation	$21,721	2	n/a
Pawnee Nation College	$20,356	1	2%
Native Food and Nutrition Resource Alliance	$15,000	1	3%
Mi'Kmaq Nation	$14,126	2	n/a
Numu Allottee Association	$12,946	2	n/a
The Kohala Center	$12,500	1	0%
Old Harbor Alliance	$10,000	1	3%
Northern California Tribal Court Coalition	$10,000	1	4%
Piikani Lodge Health Institute	$10,000	1	0%
Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe	$7,500	1	n/a
United South and Eastern Tribesinc	$7,500	1	0%
Utah State University	$5,763	2	n/a
Ke Kula Nui O Waimanalo	$5,000	1	1%
Ccthita	$5,000	1	n/a
Cherokee Nation Education Corporation	$5,000	1	n/a
Chief Seattle Club	$5,000	1	0%
Lower Sioux Indian Community	$4,978	1	n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 74 recipients with no EIN on record ($13M), not named here.

Native American Agriculture Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 12 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 88 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 88.

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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 InstituteCO135.7× affinity75 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: First Nations Development Institute · Ndn Collective Inc · Northwest Area Foundation · Common Counsel Foundation · National Indian Health Board · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Inc · Oweesta Corporation · Newman's Own Foundation · Novo Foundation · The Bush Foundation · Wend II 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 Native American Agriculture Fund

How much does Native American Agriculture Fund give?: Native American Agriculture Fund reported 110 itemized grants totaling $14,094,688, out of $15,410,671 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 81 and 100 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Native American Agriculture Fund fund?: By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (27%), Community Improvement (20%), Education (10%).
Who are Native American Agriculture Fund's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Akiptan Inc ($9.0M), Four Bands Community Fund Inc ($3.5M), Native Agriculture Education Fellowship Program ($3.0M).
Does Native American Agriculture Fund fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Native American Agriculture Fund accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Native American Agriculture Fund?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include First Nations Development Institute, Ndn Collective Inc, Northwest Area Foundation.
Where is Native American Agriculture Fund based?: Native American Agriculture Fund is based in ND.