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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.

$24M
Granted FY2024still arriving
72
Grants FY2024still arriving
24
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Civil Rights$13MEnvironment$10MArts & Culture$8.7MCommunity Improvement$8.2MHuman Services$6.4MEducation$5.2MPublic Safety & Disaster$2.4MFood & Nutrition$1.7MOther$0
02FY2024 · 72 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 72 grants below total $10,298,200, the rows itemized in this filing. The $23,865,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $13,566,800 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k33 grants · $803k
  • $50k–250k19 grants · $3.0M
  • $250k+19 grants · $6.5M
$50,000
Median grant
24
States reached
$50M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

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.

area typical 11%HOPI TUTSKWA PERMACULTURE INSTITUTE INC: $250k → 26%CENTER POLE: $250k → 23%LIVING PONO PROJECT: $10k → 9%HOMESTEAD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $50k → 9%WAKING WOMEN HEALING INSTITUTE INC: $250k → 11%LUMBEE LAND DEVELOPMENT INC: $200k → 26%MOTHER NATION: $200k → 9%NORTHWEST NATIVE DEVELOPMENT FUND: $50k → 17%THE YAKUTAT TLINGIT TRIBE NONPROFIT: $25k → 12%NATIVE AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $15k → 10%RUNNING STRONG FOR AMERICAN INDIAN STRONG FOR AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH: $200k → 6%LAS VEGAS INDIAN CENTER: $20k → 13%HOPI TUTSKWA PERMACULTURE INSTITUTE: $200k → 26%DAKOTA WICOHAN: $200k → 11%CENTER POLE: $130k → 23%COMMUNITIES UNITED FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE: $100k → 10%PUKUU CULTURAL COMMUNITY SERVICES: $20k → 14%COALITION TO STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST NATIVE WOMEN: $200k → 14%WAKING WOMEN HEALING INSTITUTE: $200k → 11%MOTHER NATION: $100k → 9%RUNNING STRONG FOR AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH: $130k → 6%NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY BOARD: $250k → 22%HOPI TUTSKWA PERMACULTURE INSTITUTE INC: $200k → 26%COMMUNITIES UNITED FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE: $30k → 10%COALITION TO STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST NATIVE WOMEN: $25k → 14%RURAL UTAH PROJECT EDUCATION FUND: $197k → 8%RUNNING STRONG FOR AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH: $20k → 6%HE SAPA OTIPI INC: $1.0M → 14%NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY BOARD: $90k → 22%HOPI TUTSKWA PERMACULTURE INSTITUTE: $25k → 26%DAKOTA WICOHAN: $20k → 11%COMMUNITIES UNITED FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE: $25k → 10%FOUR WINDS AMERICAN INDIAN COUNCIL: $10k → 12%HE SAPA OTIPI: $200k → 14%HOPI TUTSKWA PERMACULTURE INSTITUTE: $20k → 26%MINNEAPOLIS AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER: $75k → 11%NAVA EDUCATION PROJECT: $20k → 14%NATIVE WELLNESS INSTITUTE: $15k → 12%CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $200k → 9%AKICHITA YOUTH ATHLETIC ACADEMY INC: $40k → 33%WINYAN WICAYUONIHAN OYANKE-WHERE ALL WOMEN ARE HONORED: $10k → 42%STANDING ROCK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $20k → 33%CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $150k → 9%STANDING ROCK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $20k → 33%TEWA WOMEN UNITED: $200k → 12%STANDING ROCK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $20k → 33%TEWA WOMEN UNITED: $30k → 12%STANDING ROCK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10k → 33%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ME
WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
SD
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
AR
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
TX
FL

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.

North America (Canada and Mexico)$3.7M · 100% · 14 grants · 10 people

Stated purpose: COMMUNITY ACTION FUND - PROJECT SUPPORT · COMMUNITY SELF-DETERMINATION - GENERAL SUPPORT · PRESIDENT'S PARTNERSHIP FUND - PROJECT SUPPORT

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$33M · 78 repeat orgs$26M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

78
238

Total granted

$33M
$22M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+27%

Still filing today

83%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.5M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentHealthOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • NM
    NATIVE MOVEMENT
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +282%
  • NC
    NATIVE CONSERVANCY
    4× · 2020–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +203% · 55% of their budget
  • K
    KOIHONUA
    4× · 2020–2023 · $1.9M · revenue +189% · 61% of their budget

Funded once

  • OS
    Oceti Sakowin Community Academygraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $2.2M · revenue ×16
  • NF
    NDN FUND INC
    one grant, 2023 · $1.2M · revenue -80% · 69% of their budget
  • NEW MEXICO COMMUNITY CAPITAL
    one 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.

04Its field

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.

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Indigenous Women Rising Indigeous Women Rising
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2
American Indian Institute

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.

Human Services
3
Native Healing Llc
Animals
4
Ratiwennahawi Inc

Fund Indigenous Nations Languate, Culture and Restoration Plans

Education
5
International Indigenous Fund for Development and Solidarity Batani
International
6
Naa Kaani Native Program

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…

Community Improvement
7
The Foundation for Indigenous Education Leadership Development
Education
8
Native American Fiber Program
Environment
9
Washington Indian Civil Rights Commission

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…

Human Services
10
The Tiwahe Foundation

Our mission is to strengthen indigenous leadership and cultural identity.

Human Services
11
Kukolu

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.

Community Improvement
12
Native American Advocacy Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Native Conservancy; 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.
04the grantee network

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.

40
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
103
Early backer (in before they grew)
263/277
Grantees still filing
167/277
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROSEBUD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $600,000 · OtherDream of Wild Health: $500,000 · Other+74 more: $13,677,500 · Other+74 moreKOIHONUA: $1,892,000 · Arts & CultureKOIHONUAKUMANO I KE ALA O MAKAWELI: $1,600,000 · Arts & CultureKUMANO I KE ALA O MAK…MICA GROUP INC: $485,000 · Arts & CultureWAMBLI SKA SOCIETY: $455,000 · Arts & CultureBlue Bird LifeWays: $445,000 · Arts & CultureMAHCHIWMINAHNAHTIK CHIPPEWA AND CREE LANGUAGE REVITALIZATION: $400,000 · Arts & CultureAHA PUNANA LEO: $400,000 · Arts & CultureEUCHEE YUCHI LANGUAGE PROJECT INC: $400,000 · Arts & CultureNATIVE RENEWABLES INC: $400,000 · Arts & Culture+24 more: $4,386,000 · Arts & Culture+24 moreSEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC: $1,971,000 · Human ServicesSEVENTH GENERATIO…He Sapa Otipi Inc: $1,200,000 · Human ServicesHe Sapa Otipi IncHOPI TUTSKWA PERMACULTURE INSTITUTE: $695,000 · Human ServicesHOPI TUTSKWA PERM…WAKING WOMEN HEALING INSTITUTE: $450,000 · Human ServicesCenter Pole: $380,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH RUNNING STRONG INC: $350,000 · Human ServicesCHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $350,000 · Human ServicesNATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY BOARD: $340,000 · Human ServicesMother Nation: $300,000 · Human Services+14 more: $2,689,500 · Human Services+14 moreNATIVE MOVEMENT: $2,210,000 · Community ImprovementNATIVE MOVEMENTNDN FUND INC: $1,200,000 · Community ImprovementNDN FUND INCSPRUCE ROOT INC: $655,000 · Community ImprovementSPRUCE ROOT INCSicangu Community Development Corporation: $400,000 · Community ImprovementNEW MEXICO COMMUNITY CAPITAL: $400,000 · Community ImprovementMALAMA HULEIA: $400,000 · Community ImprovementWIND RIVER DEVELOPMENT FUND: $300,000 · Community Improvement+18 more: $2,385,000 · Community Improvement+18 moreNATIVE CONSERVANCY: $2,125,000 · EnvironmentNATIVE CONSER…CalCef Innovations: $1,000,000 · EnvironmentCalCef Innova…SAGE FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 · EnvironmentSAGE FOUNDATI…RED CLOUD RENEWABLE: $425,000 · EnvironmentRED CLOUD REN…Utah Dine Bikeyah: $300,000 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE FUND: $275,000 · EnvironmentHONOR THE EARTH: $230,000 · Environment+10 more: $1,609,200 · Environment+10 moreOceti Sakowin Community Academy: $2,200,000 · EducationOceti Sakowi…Purposed Focused Alternative Learning Corporation: $700,000 · EducationPurposed Foc…KERES CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER: $400,000 · EducationKERES CHILDR…WAADOOKODAADING OJIBWE LANGUAGE INSTITUTE INC: $400,000 · EducationWAADOOKODAAD…TUSWECA TIOSPAYE: $400,000 · EducationTUSWECA TIOS…FRIENDS OF THE AKWESASNE FREEDOM SCHOOL INC: $275,000 · EducationINDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK: $270,000 · Education+11 more: $1,553,484 · Education+11 moreOAYE LUTA OKOLAKICIYE: $250,000 · HealthSIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION CENTER FOR HEALTH PROGRAM MANAGEMENT: $248,000 · HealthCHANGING WOMAN INITIATIVE: $206,000 · HealthWe Are Healers Inc: $200,000 · HealthGREAT PLAINS TRIBAL LEADERS HEALTH: $100,000 · HealthLAKOTA YOUTH DEVELOPMENT: $85,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY OUTREACH AND PATIENT EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM INC: $80,000 · HealthHIR WELLNESS INSTITUTE INC: $50,000 · Health
Other$14,777,500Arts & Culture$10,863,000Human Services$8,725,500Community Improvement$7,950,000Environment$6,464,200Education$6,198,484Health$1,219,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIVE MOVEMENT: $2,210,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetNATIVE CONSERVANCY: $2,125,000 over 4y, 55% of budgetSEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC: $1,971,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetKOIHONUA: $1,892,000 over 4y, 61% of budgetKUMANO I KE ALA O MAKAWELI: $1,600,000 over 2y, 52% of budgetNDN FUND INC: $1,200,000 over 1y, 69% of budgetCalCef Innovations: $1,000,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetPurposed Focused Alternative Learning Corporation: $700,000 over 2y, 87% of budgetHOPI TUTSKWA PERMACULTURE INSTITUTE: $695,000 over 4y, 54% of budgetSPRUCE ROOT INC: $655,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetDream of Wild Health: $500,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetSAGE FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetInternational Indian Treaty Council Inc: $490,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetMICA GROUP INC: $485,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetWAMBLI SKA SOCIETY: $455,000 over 3y, 44% of budgetWAKING WOMEN HEALING INSTITUTE: $450,000 over 2y, 52% of budgetBlue Bird LifeWays: $445,000 over 3y, 38% of budgetMakoce Agriculture Development: $425,000 over 3y, 36% of budgetRED CLOUD RENEWABLE: $425,000 over 3y, 33% of budgetSicangu Community Development Corporation: $400,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetMAHCHIWMINAHNAHTIK CHIPPEWA AND CREE LANGUAGE REVITALIZATION: $400,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetAHA PUNANA LEO: $400,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetNEW MEXICO COMMUNITY CAPITAL: $400,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetSITTING BULL COLLEGE: $400,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetKERES CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER: $400,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetMALAMA HULEIA: $400,000 over 1y, 79% of budgetNATIVE RENEWABLES INC: $400,000 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetWAADOOKODAADING OJIBWE LANGUAGE INSTITUTE INC: $400,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetCenter Pole: $380,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetPolaris Institute USA: $350,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH RUNNING STRONG INC: $350,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetCHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $350,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY BOARD: $340,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetWIND RIVER DEVELOPMENT FUND: $300,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetUtah Dine Bikeyah: $300,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetMother Nation: $300,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetNative Peoples Action Community Fund: $290,000 over 3y, 30% of budgetCOUP Council: $285,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetCALIFORNIA INDIAN MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER: $280,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetWOZU INC: $280,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE AKWESASNE FREEDOM SCHOOL INC: $275,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $275,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK: $270,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $250,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNAATSIILID INITIATIVE: $250,000 over 1y, 62% of budgetPLENTY DOORS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $250,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetOAYE LUTA OKOLAKICIYE: $250,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetMANIDOO OGITIGAAN: $250,000 over 2y, 48% of budget
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.

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 InstituteCO190.9× affinity139 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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.

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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 28%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
39report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 357 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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