· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
| SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC | $250,000 |
| HOPI UTILITIES CORPORATION | $250,000 |
| WAKING WOMEN HEALING INSTITUTE INC | $250,000 |
| SAGE FOUNDATION INC | $250,000 |
| PLENTY DOORS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $250,000 |
| CENTER POLE | $250,000 |
| HOPI TUTSKWA PERMACULTURE INSTITUTE INC | $250,000 |
| NIAMUCK LAND TRUST INCORPORATED | $250,000 |
| PUEBLO OF TESUQUE | $250,000 |
| DUK DUK GOOSE | $250,000 |
| SAGE FOUNDATION INC | $250,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against +27% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NMNATIVE MOVEMENT5× · 2020–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +282%
- 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%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
Our mission is to strengthen indigenous leadership and cultural identity.
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.
How this is measured
277 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ndn Collective Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ndn Collective Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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