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Native American Rights Fund Inc

The native american rights fund holds governments accountable. We fight to protect native american rights, resources, and lifeways through litigation, legal advocacy, and legal expertise. As established by native american rights fund's (narf) first board of directors, (continued on schedule o)

$1.1M
Granted FY2023
2
Itemized grants FY2023
2
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$142k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$89,042
Largest grant, FY2023
$89,042
Organizations funded a year
2 to 24
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
2
Total assets, FY2023
$92M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Native American Rights Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $142k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’23
Community ImprovementReligion
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20232$142k100%
FY201920$631k0%
FY201824$1.1M0%
FY201724$959kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Crime & Legal$2.7MCommunity Improvement$89kReligion$53k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Dna Peoples Legal Services Inc$306,97333%
California Indian Legal Services Inc$224,6843n/a
Dakota Plains Legal Services$191,00734%
Oklahoma Indian Legal Services Inc$170,12136%
Michigan Indian Legal Services$156,930312%
Oregon Legal Aid Servicesna Program$132,9083n/a
Wisconsin Judicare Inc$122,1843n/a
Idaho Legal Aid Services Inc Idaho Legal Aid Services Inc$121,5043n/a
New Mexico Legal Aid Inc$120,32931%
Texas Riogrande Legal Aid Inc$119,75930%
Show all 26 grantees
All grantees of Native American Rights Fund Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Dna Peoples Legal Services Inc$306,97333%
California Indian Legal Services Inc$224,6843n/a
Dakota Plains Legal Services$191,00734%
Oklahoma Indian Legal Services Inc$170,12136%
Michigan Indian Legal Services$156,930312%
Oregon Legal Aid Servicesna Program$132,9083n/a
Wisconsin Judicare Inc$122,1843n/a
Idaho Legal Aid Services Inc Idaho Legal Aid Services Inc$121,5043n/a
New Mexico Legal Aid Inc$120,32931%
Texas Riogrande Legal Aid Inc$119,75930%
Utah Legal Services Inc$114,3973n/a
Anishinabe Legal Services$113,83637%
B&GC of MS Band of Choctaw Indians$109,1253n/a
Southern Arizona Legal Aid Inc$107,06731%
Montana Legal Services Association$102,44532%
Nevada Legal Services Inc$99,03431%
Bering Sea Fishermens Association$89,04214%
Pine Tree Legal Assistance Inc$82,95131%
Legal Aid of Wyoming$78,1053n/a
Legal Services of North Dakota$65,63231%
Indigenous Peyote Conservation Initative$53,09617%
Legal Aid of Nebraska$51,44530%
Northwest Justice Project$44,51920%
Alaska Legal Services Corporation$35,73120%
Colorado Legal Services$20,23920%
Legal Aid of North Carolina Inc$11,66220%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Native American Rights Fund Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDna Peoples Legal Services Inc: $306,973 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetDakota Plains Legal Services: $191,007 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetOklahoma Indian Legal Services Inc: $170,121 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetMichigan Indian Legal Services: $156,930 over 3y, 12% of budgetNew Mexico Legal Aid Inc: $120,329 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTexas Riogrande Legal Aid Inc: $119,759 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAnishinabe Legal Services: $113,836 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetSouthern Arizona Legal Aid Inc: $107,067 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetMontana Legal Services Association: $102,445 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetNevada Legal Services Inc: $99,034 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetBering Sea Fishermens Association: $89,042 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetPine Tree Legal Assistance Inc: $82,951 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetLegal Services of North Dakota: $65,632 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetIndigenous Peyote Conservation Initative: $53,096 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetLegal Aid of Nebraska: $51,445 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNorthwest Justice Project: $44,519 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAlaska Legal Services Corporation: $35,731 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetColorado Legal Services: $20,239 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLegal Aid of North Carolina Inc: $11,662 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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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 19.

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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.

Legal Services CorporationDC49.4× affinity21 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Rights Fund Inc

How much does Native American Rights Fund Inc give?
Native American Rights Fund Inc reported 2 itemized grants totaling $142,138, out of $1,103,168 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Native American Rights Fund Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (95%), Community Improvement (3%), Religion (2%).
Who are Native American Rights Fund Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Dna Peoples Legal Services Inc ($307k), California Indian Legal Services Inc ($225k), Dakota Plains Legal Services ($191k).
Does Native American Rights Fund Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Native American Rights Fund Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Legal Services Corporation, Montana Legal Services Association, Equal Justice Works.
Where is Native American Rights Fund Inc based?
Native American Rights Fund Inc is based in CO.

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 26 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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