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Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Inc

Native arts and cultures foundation advances equity and cultural knowledge, focusing on the power of arts and collaboration to strengthen native communities and promote positive social change with american indian, native hawaiian, and alaska native peoples in the us.

$502k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$1.3MCommunity Improvement$160kHousing & Shelter$100kEducation$80kEmployment$50kEnvironment$50kHealth$50kCivil Rights$35kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 10 grants below total $287,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $502,300 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $215,300 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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $120k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
$25,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NINTH ISLAND DOCUMENTARY LLC$50,000
NEW EXPRESSIVE WORKS$50,000
NEW MEXICO COMMUNITY CAPITAL$50,000
KOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES$25,000
TAKSHANUK WATERSHED COUNCIL$25,000
FORGE PROJECT ASSOCIATION$25,000
EPHEMERA LLC$25,000
TE AO MANA INC$20,000
THE CHINATI FOUNDATION$9,500
SOUTHWESTERN ASSOCIATION FOR INDIAN ARTS$7,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 55% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%GRAND CANYON MUSIC FESTIVAL: $50k → 16%DIN COLLEGE: $45k → 28%EPHEMERA LLC: $25k → 12%ROSY SIMAS DANSE LLC: $100k → 11%HOGANHORSE STUDIO INC: $50k → 14%POSTCOMMODITY LLC: $100k → 18%GARDEN ISLE ARTS COUNCIL: $50k → 9%PACIFIC ISLANDERS IN COMMUNICATION: $100k → 9%FORGE PROJECT ASSOCIATION: $25k → 11%THE NEW SCHOOL: $18k → 17%NEW MEXICO COMMUNITY CAPITAL: $50k → 14%Columbia River Institute for Indigenous Development Foundation: $18k → 10%Portland Art Museum: $25k → 12%Burns Paiute Tribe: $18k → 15%The Klamath Tribies: $10k → 16%Confederated Tribe of Siletz Indians: $18k → 16%WPKN First Voices Indigenous Radio: $21k → 9%Northeast Indigenous Arts Alliance: $10k → 7%OLD HARBOR ALLIANCE INC: $50k → 8%GOLDBELT HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $50k → 8%TAKSHANUK WATERSHED COUNCIL: $25k → 10%EPHEMERA LLC: $25k → 12%ROSY SIMAS DANSE LLC: $10k → 11%NINTH ISLAND DOCUMENTARY LLC: $50k → 14%KEALAKAI CENTER FOR PACIFIC STRINGS: $50k → 9%THE NEW SCHOOL: $17k → 17%Institute of American Indian Arts: $10k → 12%NEW MEXICO COMMUNITY CAPITAL: $50k → 14%Warm Springs Language Arts and Culture Movement: $10k → 10%NEW EXPRESSIVE WORKS: $50k → 12%Burns Paiute Tribe: $10k → 15%Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians: $10k → 16%NATIVE PEOPLE'S ACTION COMMUNITY FUND: $35k → 8%TAKSHANUK WATERSHED COUNCIL: $25k → 10%NINTH ISLAND DOCUMENTARY LLC: $25k → 14%KOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 9%CREATIVE TIME: $50k → 17%NEW EXPRESSION WORKS: $50k → 12%OLD HARBOR ALLIANCE INC: $10k → 8%CORNERSTONE THEATER COMPANY: $50k → 14%KOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 9%CREATIVE TIME: $25k → 17%CORNERSTONE THEATER COMPANY: $10k → 14%KEONE'ULAOKAMAKAUHI KELI'IOKALANI TEAWENOHOITALANI MAKUA: $10k → 9%Catalyst Dance: $10k → 17%HONOLULU THEATRE FOR YOUTH: $100k → 9%THE FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTIST: $50k → 17%Honolulu Biennial Foundation: $40k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

AK
MN
NY
OR
CT
RI
CA
NE
AZ
NM
HI
AL
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$948k · 15 repeat orgs$932k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
22

Total granted

$948k
$878k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+29%

Still filing today

73%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentHealthOther

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

  • RS
    ROSY SIMAS DANSE INC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $110k · revenue +58% · 37% of their budget
  • HT
    HONOLULU THEATRE FOR YOUTH
    2× · 2021–2023 · $110k · revenue +33%
  • NEW MEXICO COMMUNITY CAPITAL
    2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • PL
    POSTCOMMODITY LLC
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • PI
    PACIFIC ISLANDERS IN COMMUNICATIONSgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +43%
  • YO
    YOUNG OF HEART WORKSHOPgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $84k · revenue +345% · 46% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Willapa Bay AiR
Arts & Culture
2
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
3
Kala Art Institute

Kala Art Institute's mission is to help artists sustain their creative work over time through its Artist-in-Residence and Fellowship Programs, and to engage the community through exhibitions, public programs and education.

Arts & Culture
4
International Cultural Arts Network
Arts & Culture
5
Lanikuhonua Cultural Institute
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6
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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7
Hiikua a Hiialo Cultural Foundation
Arts & Culture
8
Center for Contemporary Art & Culture

To enliven and expand the understanding of craft and the museum experience for all.

Arts & Culture
9
Hawaii Nonlinear

To support Native artists, cultural bearers, and other groups who build and care for Hawaii places that promote Aina.

Arts & Culture
10
Indigenous Creatives Collective

Our mission is to help improve Indigenous well-being through art-making community building and equitable creative opportunities for personal and professional growth.

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11
Pai Foundation

Preserve, perpetuate, and educate the public in matters relating to the native hawaiian culture and arts now and for future generations.

Arts & Culture
12
Hawaii Book and Music Festival
Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pacific Islanders in Communications and the most unlike its peers is Kealakai Center for Pacific String Traditions. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Arts CentersEnvironmental Conservation …Dance Arts OrganizationsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Local History Museums
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr14%13%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr13%33%35–55yr16%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%14%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr16%16%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/40
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,525

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.

04the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 40 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
17/27
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ROSY SIMAS DANSE INC — $110,000 · OtherROSY SIMAS DANSE INCPOSTCOMMODITY LLC — $100,000 · OtherPOSTCOMMODITY LLCPACIFIC ISLANDERS IN COMMUNICATIONS — $100,000 · OtherPACIFIC ISLANDERS IN COMMUNICATIONSYOUNG OF HEART WORKSHOP — $84,000 · OtherYOUNG OF HEART WORKSHOPNINTH ISLAND DOCUMENTARY LLC — $75,000 · OtherNINTH ISLAND DOCUMENTARY LLCTHE GARDEN ISLAND ARTS COUNCIL — $50,000 · OtherTHE GARDEN ISLAND ARTS COUNCILEPHEMERA LLC — $50,000 · OtherEPHEMERA LLCHOGANHORSE STUDIO INC — $50,000 · OtherHOGANHORSE STUDIO INCRAITEA HELM — $50,000 · OtherRAITEA HELMDINE COLLEGE — $45,000 · OtherDINE COLLEGECONFEDERATED TRIBES OF SILETZ INDIANS OF OREGON — $28,000 · OtherBURNS PAIUTE TRIBE — $28,000 · Other+5 more — $50,000 · Other+5 moreHONOLULU THEATRE FOR YOUTH — $110,000 · Arts & CultureHONOLULU THEATRE FOR YOUTHNEW EXPRESSIVE WORKS — $100,000 · Arts & CultureNEW EXPRESSIVE WORKSCREATIVE TIME INC — $75,000 · Arts & CultureCREATIVE TIME INCCORNERSTONE THEATER COMPANY — $60,000 · Arts & CultureCORNERSTONE THEATER COMPANYKealakai Center For Pacific String Traditions — $50,000 · Arts & CultureKealakai Center For Pacific String TraditionsFOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureFOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS INCGRAND CANYON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureGRAND CANYON MUSIC FESTIVAL INCGOLDBELT HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Arts & CultureGOLDBELT HERITAGE FOUNDATIONHONOLULU BIENNIAL FOUNDATION — $40,000 · Arts & CultureNative Peoples Action Community Fund — $35,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more — $135,847 · Arts & Culture+7 moreOld Harbor Alliance — $60,000 · EducationThe New School — $34,750 · EducationINSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN ARTS TRUST — $10,000 · EducationNEW MEXICO COMMUNITY CAPITAL — $100,000 · Community ImprovementTAKSHANUK WATERSHED COUNCIL — $50,000 · EnvironmentKOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES — $50,000 · Health
Other$820,000Arts & Culture$755,847Education$104,750Community Improvement$100,000Environment$50,000Health$50,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetROSY SIMAS DANSE INC — $110,000 over 2y, 37% of budgetHONOLULU THEATRE FOR YOUTH — $110,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetNEW EXPRESSIVE WORKS — $100,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetNEW MEXICO COMMUNITY CAPITAL — $100,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetPACIFIC ISLANDERS IN COMMUNICATIONS — $100,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetYOUNG OF HEART WORKSHOP — $84,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetCREATIVE TIME INC — $75,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetOld Harbor Alliance — $60,000 over 2y, 43% of budgetCORNERSTONE THEATER COMPANY — $60,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetKealakai Center For Pacific String Traditions — $50,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetTHE GARDEN ISLAND ARTS COUNCIL — $50,000 over 1y, 94% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTAKSHANUK WATERSHED COUNCIL — $50,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetGRAND CANYON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC — $50,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetKOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGOLDBELT HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetHONOLULU BIENNIAL FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetNative Peoples Action Community Fund — $35,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetThe New School — $34,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFORGE PROJECT ASSOCIATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPORTLAND ART MUSEUM — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWPKN Incorporated — $20,847 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetTE AO MANA INC — $20,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN ASSOCIATION FOR INDIAN INDIAN ARTS INC — $17,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetINSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN ARTS TRUST — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE CHINATI FOUNDATION — $9,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

First Nations Develop…The Andrew W Mellon F…Council for Native Ha…Rasmuson FoundationNative American Agric…Cooke Foundation Limi…The Map Fund IncSeeding JusticeNew England Foundatio…The Alaska Community …Tides FoundationAmalgamated Charitabl…
First Nations Development InstituteCO16.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: First Nations Development Institute · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement · Rasmuson Foundation · Native American Agriculture Fund · Cooke Foundation Limited · The Map Fund Inc · Seeding Justice · New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated · The Alaska Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Arts and Cultures Foundation Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • New Expressive Works — 5% of income from government
  • Wpkn Incorporated — 2% of income from government
  • Portland Art Museum — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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