· Public charity
Native American food sovereignty alliance dba NAFSA
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $213,600 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $332,750 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $119,150 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Ukwakhwa Inc | $33,600 |
| Community Learning Network | $30,000 |
| Seventh Gen Fund TNAFA | $30,000 |
| Flowering Tree Permaculture | $30,000 |
| Ajo Center For Sustainable Ag | $30,000 |
| Ben Initiative | $30,000 |
| Zuni Youth Enrichment Project | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 85% of your 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.
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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k 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
- FTFlowering Tree Permaculture Institute Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $65k · revenue +83%
- TBTHE BEN INITIATIVE2× · 2023–2024 · $60k · revenue +8%
- ZYZUNI YOUTH ENRICHMENT PROJECT2× · 2023–2024 · $60k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- SXSan Xavier Coop Farmone grant, 2023 · $30k
- RWRed Willow Centerone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -10%
TINY SEED PROJECT INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +208%
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.
Onkwe is a group of Onkwehonwe (Orininal Peoples-Mohawk name for people-original living being.) Onkwe grop shares, and teaches traditional knowledge inherited from elders regardig farming and gardening techniques, with families an youth of…
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…
The Land Peace Foundation is an Indigenous led educational organization that is dedicated to preserving the Indigenous way of life and cultivating strong Indigenous leadership. We are also deeply committed to stewarding responsible climate…
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 &…
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,…
FEED Seven Generations is dedicated to revitalizing the health and wellness of Tribal communities by amplifying Native voices reconnecting ancestral food and health practices and advancing sustainable land and water stewardship. Through…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tiny Seed Project Inc 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.
10 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. 10 of the 12 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 Flowering Tree Permaculture Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds Community Learning Network ↗
- Who funds THE BEN INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds ZUNI YOUTH ENRICHMENT PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC ↗
- Who funds UKWAKHWA INC ↗
- Who funds AJO CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE ↗
- Who funds Red Willow Center ↗
- Who funds TINY SEED PROJECT INC ↗
- 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.
Open a dossier: First Nations Development Institute · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Inc · Common Counsel Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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 Native American food sovereignty alliance dba NAFSA 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.
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.