How much does Native Americans in Philanthropy give?

Native Americans in Philanthropy reported 18 grants totaling $4,439,729 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.

What does Native Americans in Philanthropy fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (67%), Community Improvement (13%), Housing & Shelter (9%).

Who are Native Americans in Philanthropy's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation ($4.5M), Uset Sovereign Protection Fund Inc ($1.2M), Alliance for Tribal Clean Energy Inc ($365k).

Does Native Americans in Philanthropy fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Native Americans in Philanthropy?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include First Nations Development Institute, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, New Venture Fund.

Where is Native Americans in Philanthropy based?

Native Americans in Philanthropy is based in DC.

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Washington, D.C. · Public charity

Native Americans in Philanthropy

Native Americans in Philanthropy advocates, educates, convenes and innovates to dramatically increase philanthropic investments in Native communities and transform the philanthropic sector's relationship with Indigenous communities.

$4.4M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 18
Grants FY2025: 6
Organizations funded FY2024: 67%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $50,001
Largest grant, FY2025: $2,191,850
Organizations funded a year: 1 to 6; FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 11
Total assets, FY2025: $21M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Native Americans in Philanthropy funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $395k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentAnimalsHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementHuman 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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	17	$3.5M	76%
FY2024	6	$2.5M	67%
FY2023	5	$1.5M	100%
FY2022	1	$61k	100%
FY2021	2	$71k	50%
FY2020	1	$137k	0%
FY2019	2	$78k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Environment$7.0MCommunity Improvement$1.3MHousing & Shelter$905kCivil Rights$414kPhilanthropy$411kArts & Culture$160kYouth Development$137kHuman Services$50kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation	$4,525,937	3	0%
Uset Sovereign Protection Fund Inc	$1,155,000	3	83%
Alliance for Tribal Clean Energy Inc	$364,587	1	69%
Candid	$248,209	3	0%
Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council	$200,000	1	n/a
Jamestown S'Klallam	$200,000	2	n/a
Fort Mcdermitt Paiute and Shoshone Tribe of Nevada	$200,000	1	n/a
Bering Sea Elders Group	$150,000	2	15%
Intertribal Buffalo Council	$145,000	1	n/a
Chilkat Indian Village (Klukwan)	$100,000	1	n/a

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All grantees of Native Americans in Philanthropy by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation	$4,525,937	3	0%
Uset Sovereign Protection Fund Inc	$1,155,000	3	83%
Alliance for Tribal Clean Energy Inc	$364,587	1	69%
Candid	$248,209	3	0%
Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council	$200,000	1	n/a
Jamestown S'Klallam	$200,000	2	n/a
Fort Mcdermitt Paiute and Shoshone Tribe of Nevada	$200,000	1	n/a
Bering Sea Elders Group	$150,000	2	15%
Intertribal Buffalo Council	$145,000	1	n/a
Chilkat Indian Village (Klukwan)	$100,000	1	n/a
San Carlos Apache Tribe V00523	$100,000	1	n/a
The Rockefeller Foundation	$61,250	1	0%
National Caucus of Environmental Legislators	$50,001	1	n/a
Cheyenne River Youth Project Inc	$50,000	1	2%
Tribal Government of St Paul Island	$50,000	1	n/a
Environmental Policy Innovation Center	$50,000	1	0%
Laguna Community Foundation	$50,000	1	34%
Self Governance Communication and Educat Tribal Consortium	$50,000	1	n/a
The Aspen Institute Inc	$25,000	1	n/a
United American Indian Involvement Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Thunderheart Media Inc	$15,000	1	n/a
Partners for Rural Impact Inc	$15,000	1	0%
Native American Youth and Family Center	$11,968	1	0%
Alaska Conservation Foundation	$10,001	1	0%
American Indian Higher Education Consortium Inc	$7,877	1	0%
Indigenous Lifeways	$7,500	1	n/a

Native Americans in Philanthropy supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 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 14.

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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 InstituteCO21.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: First Nations Development Institute · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · Common Counsel Foundation · The Alaska Community Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Americans in Philanthropy

How much does Native Americans in Philanthropy give?: Native Americans in Philanthropy reported 18 grants totaling $4,439,729 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Native Americans in Philanthropy fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (67%), Community Improvement (13%), Housing & Shelter (9%).
Who are Native Americans in Philanthropy's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation ($4.5M), Uset Sovereign Protection Fund Inc ($1.2M), Alliance for Tribal Clean Energy Inc ($365k).
Does Native Americans in Philanthropy fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Native Americans in Philanthropy?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include First Nations Development Institute, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, New Venture Fund.
Where is Native Americans in Philanthropy based?: Native Americans in Philanthropy is based in DC.