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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
Grants FY2021
19
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01FY2021 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 38 grants below total $2,421,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,263,535 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $842,035 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 · FY2021

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $313k
  • $50k–250k27 grants · $2.1M
$50,000
Median grant
19
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NTS'ILID INITIATIVE$100,000
KUAINA ULU AUAMO$100,000
KALISPEL TRIBE OF INDIANS$100,000
CALIFORNIA INDIAN MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER$100,000
MECHOOPDA INDIAN TRIBE OF CHICO RANCHERIA$100,000
NATIVE CONSERVANCY$100,000
GWICH'IN STEERING COMMITTEE$100,000
KERES CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER$100,000
KENNEY FAMILY FOUNDATION$100,000
CHUGACH REGIONAL RESOURCES COMMISSION$100,000
FAST BLACKFEET$100,000
DAKOTA WICOHAN$100,000
THUNDER VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$100,000
SOUTHEAST ALASKA INDIGENOUS TRANSBOUNDARY COMMISSION$100,000
HOCHUNK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$75,000
02The need
02

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:

Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%DAKOTA WICOHAN: $100k → 11%NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY BOARD: $50k → 22%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
WA
MT
MN
WI
NY
WY
SD
CA
NE
KY
MD
AZ
NM
SC
HI
OK
LA
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 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
Indigenous Women Rising Indigeous Women Rising
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2
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
3
The Foundation for Indigenous Education Leadership Development
Education
4
Ratiwennahawi Inc

Fund Indigenous Nations Languate, Culture and Restoration Plans

Education
5
Native Healing Llc
Animals
6
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
7
Intertribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council
—
8
Na Mamo o Kawa

to rehabilitate, curate, and steward the natural and cultural resources of Kawa to honor the past, benefit the present, and preserve for the future generations of Ka'u, the Island of Hawaii and all humankind.

Environment
9
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
10
The Cultural ConservancySacred Land Foundation

We are a Native-led Indigenous rights organization. We are dedicated to our mission of protecting & revitalizing Indigenous cultures, empowering them in the direct application of their traditional knowledge & practices on their ancestral…

Arts & Culture
11
Native American Fiber Program
Environment
12
Na'ah Illahee Fund

Naah Illahee Fund is an Indigenous-led organization rooted in the Northwest region of Turtle Island. Our mission is to catalyze the ongoing regeneration of Indigenous communities through participatory grantmaking, capacity building, and…

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Native Conservancy and the most unlike its peers is Ukwakhwa 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLocal Food System Organizat…Affordable Housing Developm…Environmental Conservation …Independent K-12 SchoolsCommunity Foundations
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 13 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%30%5–10yr19%30%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr13%10%35–55yr16%3%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%5%<5yr14%28%5–10yr19%28%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr13%7%35–55yr16%3%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 5% 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%0/38
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,527

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.

03the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 38 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/32
Grantees still filing
24/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Chugach Regional Resources Commission — $100,000 · OtherChugach Regional Resources CommissionKALISPEL INDIAN COMMUNITY OF THE KALISPEL RESERVATION — $100,000 · OtherKALISPEL INDIAN COMMUNITY OF THE KALISPEL R…MECHOOPDA INDIAN TRIBE OF CHICO RANCHERIA — $100,000 · OtherMECHOOPDA INDIAN TRIBE OF CHICO RANCHERIAKNNB — $50,000 · OtherKNNBCARRIZO COMECRUDO NATION OF TEXAS INC — $50,000 · OtherCARRIZO COMECRUDO NATION OF TEXAS INCRED LAKE BAND OF CHIPPEWA INDIANS — $50,000 · OtherRED LAKE BAND OF CHIPPEWA INDIANSFAST BLACKFEET — $100,000 · OtherFAST BLACKFEETKENNEY FAMILY FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · OtherKENNEY FAMILY FOUNDATION INCSOUTHEAST ALASKA INDIGINOUS TRANSBOUNDARY COMMISSI — $100,000 · OtherSOUTHEAST ALASKA INDIGINOUS TRANSBOUNDARY C…Na Maka Onaona — $50,000 · OtherNa Maka Onaona+5 more — $129,000 · Other+5 moreGWICHIN STEERING COMMITTEE — $100,000 · Arts & CultureGWICHIN STEERING C…CALIFORNIA INDIAN MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER — $100,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA INDIAN …WAMBLI SKA SOCIETY — $75,000 · Arts & CultureWAMBLI SKA SOCIETYIntersection for the Arts — $50,000 · Arts & CultureIntersection for t…UKWAKHWA INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureUKWAKHWA INCINDIGENOUS VALUES INITIATIVE INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureINDIGENOUS VALUES …KERES CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER — $100,000 · EducationKERES CHILDREN…PINE RIDGE GIRLS SCHOOL INC — $50,000 · EducationPINE RIDGE GIR…NACA-INSPIRED SCHOOLS NETWORK — $50,000 · EducationNACA-INSPIRED …AMERICAN INDIAN RESOURCE CENTER INC — $45,000 · EducationAMERICAN INDIA…Center for Popular Research Education and Policy — $40,000 · EducationCenter for Pop…NA AIKANE O MAUI INC — $30,000 · EducationNA AIKANE O MA…THUNDER VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COR — $100,000 · Community ImprovementTHUNDER VALL…HO-CHUNK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $75,000 · Community ImprovementHO-CHUNK COM…RURAL AMERICA INITIATIVES — $50,000 · Community ImprovementRURAL AMERIC…PINE HILL INDIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE — $50,000 · Community ImprovementPINE HILL IN…NATIVE CONSERVANCY — $100,000 · EnvironmentNATIVE CONS…KUA AINA ULU AUAMO — $100,000 · EnvironmentKUA AINA UL…SOGOREA TE LAND TRUST — $30,000 · EnvironmentSOGOREA TE …FIBERSHED — $17,500 · EnvironmentFIBERSHEDDAKOTA WICOHAN — $100,000 · Human ServicesNATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY BOARD — $50,000 · Human ServicesNAATSIILID INITIATIVE — $100,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$929,000Arts & Culture$405,000Education$315,000Community Improvement$275,000Environment$247,500Human Services$150,000Housing & Shelter$100,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetChugach Regional Resources Commission — $100,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetKERES CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER — $100,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetFAST BLACKFEET — $100,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetTHUNDER VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COR — $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNATIVE CONSERVANCY — $100,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetKENNEY FAMILY FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 96% of budgetDAKOTA WICOHAN — $100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetSOUTHEAST ALASKA INDIGINOUS TRANSBOUNDARY COMMISSI — $100,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetCALIFORNIA INDIAN MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER — $100,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetKUA AINA ULU AUAMO — $100,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetHO-CHUNK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $75,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY BOARD — $50,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetRURAL AMERICA INITIATIVES — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNa Maka Onaona — $50,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetPINE RIDGE GIRLS SCHOOL INC — $50,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetPINE HILL INDIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE — $50,000 over 1y, 78% of budgetIntersection for the Arts — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUKWAKHWA INC — $50,000 over 1y, 81% of budgetCARRIZO COMECRUDO NATION OF TEXAS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetNACA-INSPIRED SCHOOLS NETWORK — $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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 budgetUNITED HOUMA NATION INC — $30,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSOGOREA TE LAND TRUST — $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLIVELIHOODS KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE NETWORK INC — $30,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetINDIGENOUS VALUES INITIATIVE INC — $30,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetFIBERSHED — $17,500 over 1y, 1.0% 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…Ndn Collective IncCommon Counsel Founda…Amalgamated Charitabl…Novo FoundationSeventh Generation Fu…Tides FoundationThe Schmidt Family Fo…PatagoniaorgNative American Agric…Solutions Project IncNewman's Own Foundati…
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

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 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 79%
  • American Indian Resource Center Inc — 79% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
9report 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

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.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Ndn Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Ndn Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 38 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 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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