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Ndn Foundation Inc

The entity's mission is to engage in grant making, managing donor advised funds and genuine relationship building between other foundations and indian country.

$3.3M
Granted FY2021
38
Itemized grants FY2021
38
Organizations funded FY2021
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Itemized, FY2021
$2.4M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2021
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$100,000
States reached, FY2021
19

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Southeast Alaska Indiginous Transboundary Commissi$100,000122%
California Indian Museum & Cultural Center$100,00016%
Keres Children's Learning Center$100,00017%
Kua Aina Ulu Auamo$100,00017%
Dakota Wicohan$100,000112%
Kalispel Indian Community of the Kalispel Reservation$100,0001n/a
Gwichin Steering Committee$100,0001n/a
Kenney Family Foundation Inc$100,000196%
Mechoopda Indian Tribe of Chico Rancheria$100,0001n/a
Native Conservancy$100,00016%
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All grantees of Ndn Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Southeast Alaska Indiginous Transboundary Commissi$100,000122%
California Indian Museum & Cultural Center$100,00016%
Keres Children's Learning Center$100,00017%
Kua Aina Ulu Auamo$100,00017%
Dakota Wicohan$100,000112%
Kalispel Indian Community of the Kalispel Reservation$100,0001n/a
Gwichin Steering Committee$100,0001n/a
Kenney Family Foundation Inc$100,000196%
Mechoopda Indian Tribe of Chico Rancheria$100,0001n/a
Native Conservancy$100,00016%
Fast Blackfeet$100,000121%
Thunder Valley Community Development Cor$100,00011%
Naatsiilid Initiative$100,0001n/a
Chugach Regional Resources Commission$100,00013%
Wambli Ska Society$75,0001n/a
Ho-Chunk Community Development Corporation$75,00017%
Rural America Initiatives$50,00011%
Carrizo Comecrudo Nation of Texas Inc$50,00015%
Pine Hill Indian Community Development Initiative$50,000178%
Native American Community Board$50,00015%
Ukwakhwa Inc$50,000181%
Naca-Inspired Schools Network$50,00011%
Intersection for the Arts$50,00011%
Knnb$50,0001n/a
Pine Ridge Girls School Inc$50,00016%
Na Maka Onaona$50,00019%
Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians$50,0001n/a
American Indian Resource Center Inc$45,00012%
Center for Popular Research Education and Policy$40,000110%
Kelii William Ioane Legacy Foundation$30,0001n/a
Livelihoods Knowledge Exchange Network Inc$30,00013%
Women With Bows$30,0001n/a
Sogorea Te Land Trust$30,00010%
Indigenous Values Initiative Inc$30,000113%
Na Aikane O Maui Inc$30,0001n/a
United Houma Nation Inc$30,00011%
Fibershed$17,50011%
Lakota Wellness Society Inc$9,0001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Ndn Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSoutheast Alaska Indiginous Transboundary Commissi: $100,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetCalifornia Indian Museum & Cultural Center: $100,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetKeres Children's Learning Center: $100,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetKua Aina Ulu Auamo: $100,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetDakota Wicohan: $100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetKenney Family Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 96% of budgetNative Conservancy: $100,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetFast Blackfeet: $100,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetThunder Valley Community Development Cor: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetChugach Regional Resources Commission: $100,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetHo-Chunk Community Development Corporation: $75,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetRural America Initiatives: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCarrizo Comecrudo Nation of Texas Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetPine Hill Indian Community Development Initiative: $50,000 over 1y, 78% of budgetNative American Community Board: $50,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetUkwakhwa Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 81% of budgetNaca-Inspired Schools Network: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetIntersection for the Arts: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPine Ridge Girls School Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetNa Maka Onaona: $50,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetAmerican Indian Resource Center Inc: $45,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCenter for Popular Research Education and Policy: $40,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetLivelihoods Knowledge Exchange Network Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetSogorea Te Land Trust: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetIndigenous Values Initiative Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetUnited Houma Nation Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFibershed: $17,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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 InstituteCO56.8× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: First Nations Development Institute · Ndn Collective Inc · Common Counsel Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Novo Foundation · Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Inc · Tides Foundation · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Native American Agriculture Fund · Solutions Project Inc · Newman's Own Foundation

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.

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About Ndn Foundation Inc

How much does Ndn Foundation Inc give?
Ndn Foundation Inc reported 38 itemized grants totaling $2,421,500, out of $3,263,535 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing.
What does Ndn Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2021, its largest causes are Environment (18%), Civil Rights (17%), Community Improvement (15%).
Who are Ndn Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2021: Southeast Alaska Indiginous Transboundary Commissi ($100k), California Indian Museum & Cultural Center ($100k), Keres Children's Learning Center ($100k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Ndn Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include First Nations Development Institute, Ndn Collective Inc, Common Counsel Foundation.
Where is Ndn Foundation Inc based?
Ndn Foundation Inc is based in SD.

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 38 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2022) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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