How much did NDN FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2021?

NDN FOUNDATION INC reported 38 grants totaling $3,263,535 in its FY2021 IRS filing.

Where is NDN FOUNDATION INC based?

NDN FOUNDATION INC is based in SD.

NDN FOUNDATION INC

Foundation Dossiers Also receives grants — funding profile →

· Public charity

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

Grants

Communities

$100k

Largest

01What you fund

01FY2021 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

Under $10k1 grant · $9k
$10k–50k10 grants · $313k
$50k–250k27 grants · $2.1M

$50,000

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants

CHUGACH REGIONAL RESOURCES COMMISSION$100,000
SOUTHEAST ALASKA INDIGENOUS TRANSBOUNDARY COMMISSION$100,000
FAST BLACKFEET$100,000
GWICH'IN STEERING COMMITTEE$100,000
KERES CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER$100,000
THUNDER VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$100,000
DAKOTA WICOHAN$100,000
CALIFORNIA INDIAN MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER$100,000
NTS'ILID INITIATIVE$100,000
NATIVE CONSERVANCY$100,000
KENNEY FAMILY FOUNDATION$100,000
MECHOOPDA INDIAN TRIBE OF CHICO RANCHERIA$100,000
KALISPEL TRIBE OF INDIANS$100,000
KUAINA ULU AUAMO$100,000
HOCHUNK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$75,000

02The need

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% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

American Institute of Indian Studies

Dedicated to the advancement of knowledge about India and the promotion of intellectual engagement with India in American universities by providing research fellowship support, training in Indian languages, knowledge of Indian culture, and…

Social Science

Northern California Indian

Research, develop, and administer social and economic development programs to meet the needs of indian and native american communities.

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Indigenous Women Rising

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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

Indigenous Regeneration

Indigenous Regeneration exists to inspire Native Communities on re-generative living concepts, through food cultivation, medicinal farming, culture, and eco-village educational programs, to achieve re-indigenization and true Tribal…

Youth Development

Naa Kaani Native Program

The Naa káani Native Program strives to educate and empower Native communities in the Pacific Northwest, with a focus on the Salish Sea Territory. We support cultural events, advocate for tribal rights, and aim to improve lives and…

Community Improvement

Intertribal Sinkyone Wilderness

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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

Minneapolis American Indian Center

The Organization's mission is to provide excellent services witin a foundation of cultural values that help meet the needs of the American Indian community. The Organization offers services to the American Indian community in Minneapolis,…

Human Services

The Cultural ConservancySacred Land

The Cultural Conservancy is a Native-led Indigenous rights organization. Since 1985, we have been dedicated to our mission of protecting & revitalizing Indigenous cultures, empowering them in the direct application of their traditional…

Arts & Culture

Tanana Chiefs Conference

Tanana Chiefs Conference provides a unified voice in advancing sovereign tribal governments through the promotion of physical and mental wellness, education, socioeconomic development, and culture of the interior Alaska native people.

Health

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

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.

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 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 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/38

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,527

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, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

31/32

Grantees still filing

30/32

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$929,000Arts & Culture$405,000Education$315,000Community Improvement$275,000Environment$247,500Human Services$150,000Food & Nutrition$100,000

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.

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 Development InstituteCO58× 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 · Novo Foundation · Seventh Generation Fund · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Tides Foundation · Solutions Project Inc · South Dakota Community Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Patagoniaorg

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 organisation 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: KENNEY FAMILY FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~17 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.2× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 521907688 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on KENNEY FAMILY FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 17 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 96% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Ndn Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Ndn Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

NDN FOUNDATION INC

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

32 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Ndn Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

NDN FOUNDATION INC

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

32 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Ndn Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph