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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.

$333k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$34k
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, FY2022 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$90kEnvironment$75kArts & Culture$60kEducation$60kYouth Development$60kCivil Rights$60kReligion$34kCommunity Improvement$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $213,600, the rows itemized in this filing. The $332,750 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $119,150 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.
$30,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Ukwakhwa Inc$33,600
Ben Initiative$30,000
Zuni Youth Enrichment Project$30,000
Ajo Center For Sustainable Ag$30,000
Seventh Gen Fund TNAFA$30,000
Community Learning Network$30,000
Flowering Tree Permaculture$30,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%Ajo Center For Sustainable Ag: $30k → 15%Texas Tribal Buffalo Project: $8k → 15%Flowering Tree Permaculture: $30k → 18%Red Willow Center: $30k → 18%Zuni Youth Enrichment Project: $30k → 32%REZZILIENT: $7k → 21%Ukwakhwa Inc: $34k → 10%Tiny Seed Project: $10k → 12%San Xavier Coop Farm: $30k → 15%Zuni Youth Enrichment Project: $30k → 32%Ben Initiative: $30k → 32%Ben Initiative: $30k → 32%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.
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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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

+8%
+208%

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.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyEducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • FT
    Flowering Tree Permaculture Institute Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $65k · revenue +83%
  • TB
    THE BEN INITIATIVE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $60k · revenue +8%
  • ZY
    ZUNI YOUTH ENRICHMENT PROJECT
    2× · 2023–2024 · $60k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • RW
    Red Willow Center
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -10%
  • SX
    San Xavier Coop Farm
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
  • TINY SEED PROJECT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +208%
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
The Haiku Aina Permaculture Initiative
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2
Sustainable Growers
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3
Indigenous Women Rising Indigeous Women Rising
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4
Native American Agriculture Fund
Food & Nutrition
5
Native American Fiber Program
Environment
6
Native Healing Llc
Animals
7
Onkwe Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
8
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
9
Land Peace Foundation

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…

Arts & Culture
10
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
11
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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12
Feed Seven Generations

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…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tiny Seed Project Inc; 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 tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BEN INITIATIVE: $60,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BEN INITIATIVEUKWAKHWA INC: $33,600 · Arts & CultureUKWAKHWA INCRed Willow Center: $30,000 · OtherRed Willow Cente…San Xavier Coop Farm: $30,000 · OtherSan Xavier Coop …REZZILIENT: $7,000 · OtherREZZILIENTFlowering Tree Permaculture Institute Inc: $65,000 · PhilanthropyFlowering Tree P…Community Learning Network: $60,000 · EducationCommunity Lear…ZUNI YOUTH ENRICHMENT PROJECT: $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentZUNI YOUTH ENR…SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesSEVENTH GENERA…AJO CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE: $30,000 · Community ImprovementAJO CENTE…TEXAS TRIBAL BUFFALO PROJECT: $8,000 · Community ImprovementTEXAS TRI…TINY SEED PROJECT INC: $10,000 · Environment
Arts & Culture$93,600Other$67,000Philanthropy$65,000Education$60,000Youth Development$60,000Human Services$60,000Community Improvement$38,000Environment$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFlowering Tree Permaculture Institute Inc: $65,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetCommunity Learning Network: $60,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetTHE BEN INITIATIVE: $60,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetZUNI YOUTH ENRICHMENT PROJECT: $60,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetUKWAKHWA INC: $33,600 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetAJO CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE: $30,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetTINY SEED PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTEXAS TRIBAL BUFFALO PROJECT: $8,000 over 1y, 1.9% 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…Amalgamated Charitabl…Seventh Generation Fu…Common Counsel Founda…Rsf Social Finance IncFidelity Investments …
First Nations Development InstituteCO19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Native American food sovereignty alliance dba NAFSA funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Native American food sovereignty alliance dba NAFSA. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report 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 12 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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