· Public charity
Ndn Collective Inc
Build the collective power of indigenous peoples, communities, and nations to exercise our inherent right to self-determination, while fostering a world that is built on a foundation of justice and equity for all people and mother earth.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 72 grants below total $10,298,200 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $23,865,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $13,566,800 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 $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k33 grants · $803k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $3.0M
- $250k+19 grants · $6.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW ENERGY NEXUS | $1,000,000 |
| KUMANO I KE ALA O MAKAWELI | $800,000 |
| SPRUCE ROOT INC | $540,000 |
| NATIVE CONSERVANCY | $450,000 |
| SAGE FOUNDATION INC | $250,000 |
| WAKING WOMEN HEALING INSTITUTE INC | $250,000 |
| NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY BOARD | $250,000 |
| LOWER SIOUX INDIAN COMMUNITY | $250,000 |
| WIND RIVER DEVELOPMENT FUND | $250,000 |
| PUEBLO OF TESUQUE | $250,000 |
| SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC | $250,000 |
| DUK DUK GOOSE | $250,000 |
| SAGE FOUNDATION INC | $250,000 |
| HOPI TUTSKWA PERMACULTURE INSTITUTE INC | $250,000 |
| NIAMUCK LAND TRUST INCORPORATED | $250,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $5.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% 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
Grants abroad, by region — $3.7M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 1 region, $2.2M to organizations and $1.5M to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: COMMUNITY ACTION FUND - PROJECT SUPPORT · COMMUNITY SELF-DETERMINATION - GENERAL SUPPORT · PRESIDENT'S PARTNERSHIP FUND - PROJECT SUPPORT
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +65% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
78 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 52 since wound down; 35 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.5M 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
- NMNATIVE MOVEMENT5× · 2020–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +238%
- NCNATIVE CONSERVANCY4× · 2020–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +203% · 55% of their budget
- KKOIHONUA4× · 2020–2023 · $1.9M · revenue +189% · 61% of their budget
Funded once
- OSOceti Sakowin Community Academygraduatedone grant, 2022 · $2.2M · revenue ×16
- NFNDN FUND INCone grant, 2023 · $1.2M · revenue -80% · 69% of their budget
NEW MEXICO COMMUNITY CAPITALone grant, 2022 · $400k · revenue -3%
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.
The american indian institute's mission is to perpetuate the ancient wisdom and cultural heritage of north america's native people and to promote a greater understanding of that wisdom amoung all people.
Fund Indigenous Nations Languate, Culture and Restoration Plans
The naa kaani native program strives to educate and empower native communities in the pacific norhtwest, with a focus on the salish sea territory. we support cultural events, advocate for tribal rights, and aim to improve lives and…
Washington Indian Civil Rights Commission is led by and for Indigenous people, and envisions a just society in which we are treated with honor, fairness and respect. Our mission is to uphold our individual civil rights through education…
As Indigenous peoples, we derive strength from our genealogy, using the past to shape the present and inspire our future. Our mission is to empower our communities by drawing upon their strengths to cultivate economic growth.
Our mission is to strengthen indigenous leadership and cultural identity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Native Conservancy and the most unlike its peers is Faha Digital Media Inc. 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.
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 12 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 15% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% 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.
277 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. 277 of the 357 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 NATIVE MOVEMENT ↗
- Who funds Oceti Sakowin Community Academy ↗
- Who funds NATIVE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC ↗
- Who funds KOIHONUA ↗
- Who funds KUMANO I KE ALA O MAKAWELI ↗
- Who funds NDN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds He Sapa Otipi Inc ↗
- Who funds CalCef Innovations ↗
- Who funds Purposed Focused Alternative Learning Corporation ↗
- Who funds HOPI TUTSKWA PERMACULTURE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SPRUCE ROOT INC ↗
- Who funds Dream of Wild Health ↗
- Who funds SAGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds International Indian Treaty Council Inc ↗
- Who funds MICA GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds WAMBLI SKA SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WAKING WOMEN HEALING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Blue Bird LifeWays ↗
- Who funds Makoce Agriculture Development ↗
- Who funds RED CLOUD RENEWABLE ↗
- Who funds Sicangu Community Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds MAHCHIWMINAHNAHTIK CHIPPEWA AND CREE LANGUAGE REVITALIZATION ↗
- Who funds AHA PUNANA LEO ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO COMMUNITY CAPITAL ↗
- Who funds EUCHEE YUCHI LANGUAGE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SITTING BULL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds KERES CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds MALAMA HULEIA ↗
- Who funds NATIVE RENEWABLES INC ↗
- Who funds WAADOOKODAADING OJIBWE LANGUAGE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds TUSWECA TIOSPAYE ↗
- Who funds Center Pole ↗
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 · Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Inc · Common Counsel Foundation · Northwest Area Foundation · Native American Agriculture Fund · Novo Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Oweesta Corporation · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Wend II Inc · Ndn 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 Ndn Collective 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.
- Nixyaawii Community Financial Services — 100% of income from government
- Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians Economic Development Corporation — 28% of income from government
- Warm Springs Community Action Team — 28% of income from government
- Central Oklahoma American Indian Health Council Inc — 5% 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.