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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $900k
- $250k+3 grants · $3.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| National Fish and Wildlife Foundation | $2,191,850 |
| The Nature Conservancy | $962,500 |
| United South and Eastern Tribes | $300,000 |
| Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council | $200,000 |
| Fort Mcdermitt Paiute and Shoshone Tribe of Nevada | $200,000 |
| Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe | $100,000 |
| San Carlos Apache Tribe V00523 | $100,000 |
| Chilkat Indian Village (Klukwan) | $100,000 |
| National Caucus of Environmental Legislators V00517 | $50,001 |
| Self-Governance Communication and Education Tribal Consortium V00550 | $50,000 |
| Bering Sea Elders Group | $50,000 |
| ACSPI-Tribal Government of St Paul Island | $50,000 |
| The Aspen Institute | $25,000 |
| Partners for Rural Impact Inc | $15,000 |
| Thunderheart Media Inc V00542 | $15,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 25% of Native Americans in Philanthropy’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 — 4 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $830k 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
- NFNATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $4.5M · revenue +24%
- USUSET SOVEREIGN PROTECTION FUND INC3× · 2023–2025 · $1.2M · revenue -6% · 83% of their budget
CANDID3× · 2019–2021 · $248k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- AFALLIANCE FOR TRIBAL CLEAN ENERGY INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $365k · revenue ×29 · 69% of their budget
- IBINTERTRIBAL BUFFALO COUNCILone grant, 2024 · $145k
- TRTHE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $61k · revenue +24%
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.
Nia tero works alongside indigenous peoples to secure their guardianship of vital ecosystems. indigenous peoples are guardians of earth.(see schedule o)
The mission of the indian land tenure foundation (iltf) is to see those lands within the original boundaries of every reservation and other areas of high significance where tribes retain aboriginal inters are in indian ownership and…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.
The affiliated tribes of northwest indians is founded on the principles of unity and cooperation among indian governments and people.
The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.
The national center for american indian enterprise development (ncaied) assists american indian tribes and their enterprises with business and economic development. ncaied works to develop and expand the american indian private sector…
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…
We safeguard the earth: its people, its plants and animals, and (see schedule o) the natural systems on which all life depends. we work to restore the integrity of the elements that sustain life - air, land, and water - to defend…
Rri's mission is to support local communities and indigenous peoples' struggles against poverty and marginalization by promoting greater global commitment and action towards policy, market, and legal reforms that secure their rights to…
We bring science, policy, and proven solutions directly to communities working to restore the integrity and natural connectivity of the landscapes in which they live. (see schedule o)
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alliance for Tribal Clean Energy Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Rockefeller Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 22% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 7% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
24 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. 24 of the 30 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 NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds USET SOVEREIGN PROTECTION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR TRIBAL CLEAN ENERGY INC ↗
- Who funds CANDID ↗
- Who funds Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council ↗
- Who funds THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BERING SEA ELDERS GROUP ↗
- Who funds THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CAUCUS OF ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATORS ↗
- Who funds LAGUNA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Environmental Policy Innovation Center ↗
- Who funds CHEYENNE RIVER YOUTH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SELF GOVERNANCE COMMUNICATION AND EDUCAT TRIBAL CONSORTIUM ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED AMERICAN INDIAN INVOLVEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Thunderheart Media Inc ↗
- Who funds Partners for Rural Impact Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ALASKA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Indian Higher Education Consortium Inc ↗
- Who funds INDIGENOUS LIFEWAYS ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
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 · New Venture Fund · Common Counsel Foundation · The Alaska Community Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Americans in Philanthropy 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.
- Native American Youth and Family Center — 23% of income from government
- Environmental Policy Innovation Center — 13% of income from government
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.