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Native American food sovereignty
NAFSA was formed to restore & support Native American food systems nationally, in Mexico & Canada through education, advocacy & policy, while promoting better health & creating economic opportunities.
$333k
Granted FY2024
7
Grants
4
Communities
$34k
Largest
01What you fund
0185% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2022–2024.
Arts & Culture$94kPhilanthropy$65kYouth Development$60kEducation$60kHuman Services$60kCommunity Improvement$38kEnvironment$10kOther$67k
02FY2024 · 7 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$30,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
- Ukwakhwa Inc$33,600
- Ben Initiative$30,000
- Ajo Center For Sustainable Ag$30,000
- Zuni Youth Enrichment Project$30,000
- Flowering Tree Permaculture$30,000
- Seventh Gen Fund TNAFA$30,000
- Community Learning Network$30,000
02The need
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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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 22% — the area typically sits at 15%. 85% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
67%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$305k · 5 repeat orgs$149k to everyone else
5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
5
5
Total granted
$305k
$85k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+54%
+1753%
Still filing today
100%
40%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentEducationHuman ServicesOther
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
- FTFlowering Tree Permaculture2× · 2023–2024 · $65k · revenue +49%
- ZYZuni Youth Enrichment Project2× · 2023–2024 · $60k · revenue +5%
- CLCommunity Learning Network2× · 2023–2024 · $60k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- RWRed Willow Centerone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -10%
- SXSan Xavier Coop Farmone grant, 2023 · $30k
Tiny Seed Projectgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +1753%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Hopi Tutskwa Permaculture Institute
Create community based solutions in order to pass knowledge to future generations and rebuild culturally sustainable and healthy communities, inititate learning projects that engage, train and inspire hopi youth and community to revitalize…
Human Services
2
Land Stewardship Project
See schedule o the land stewardship project (lsp) works to foster an ethic of stewardship toward farmland in the united states, promote sustainable agriculture and develop healthy communiies. lsp is dedicated to creating transformational…
Environment
3
Cihuapactli Collective
The Cihuapactli Collective's purpose is to provide healing for urban Indigenous Peoples from the diaspora. This is done by sharing wisdom, connecting resources, revitalizing Traditional Knowledge, promoting and advocating for health &…
Arts & Culture
4
The Haiku Aina Permaculture Initiative
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5
Tano Tasi Yan Todu
Tno, Tsi, yan Todu works to restore and preserve the land and sea for the people of the Mariana Islands.
Environment
6
Indigenous Women Rising
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7
The Land Institute
Develop a grain agriculture system with the ecological stability of natural systems and a grain yield comparable to that from annual crops.
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8
The Indigenous Knowledge Collective
The Indigenous Knowledge Collective is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that serves people in New Mexico and Arizona in a Native lead environment to sustain the revitalization of traditional existence of Native People through Art Lessons,…
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9
Tataviam Land Conservancy
To restore the unceded ancestral homelands of the FTBMI by implementing protective land management strategies, traditional ecological knowledge, and climate-resilient initiatives. By holding lands in perpetuity, TLC works to prevent the…
Environment
10
American Indian Institute
The american indian institute's mission is to perpetuate the ancient wisdom and cultural heritage of north america's native people and to promote a greater understanding of that wisdom amoung all people.
Human Services
11
The Siskiyou Land Trust
Protection of wild lands and working forests and agricultural lands, primarilly in siskiyou county, through conservation easements or fee title ownership, and the stewardship thereof.
Unclassified
12
Unm Rainforest Innovations
Supporting the university of new mexico as the source of innovation management, patent prosecution and licensing of technologies developed at the university of new mexico.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ajo Center for Sustainable and the most unlike its peers is Ukwakhwa Inc. 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
10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Arts & Culture$93,600Other$67,000Philanthropy$65,000Youth Development$60,000Education$60,000Human Services$60,000Community Improvement$38,000Environment$10,000
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 Flowering Tree Permaculture ↗
- Who funds Zuni Youth Enrichment Project ↗
- Who funds Community Learning Network ↗
- Who funds Ben Initiative ↗
- Who funds Seventh Gen Fund TNAFA ↗
- Who funds Ukwakhwa Inc ↗
- Who funds Ajo Center For Sustainable Ag ↗
- Who funds Red Willow Center ↗
- Who funds Tiny Seed Project ↗
- Who funds Texas Tribal Buffalo Project ↗
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.
First Nations Development InstituteCO20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: First Nations Development Institute · Seventh Generation Fund · Common Counsel Foundation · Rsf Social Finance 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 organisation Native American food sovereignty 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.
2024
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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Flowering Tree Permaculture.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~95 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 850384777 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Flowering Tree Permaculture, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 95 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 12% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Native American food sovereignty?
Find your warmest path to Native American food sovereignty through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines