How much does Nia Tero Foundation give?

Nia Tero Foundation reported 25 itemized grants totaling $3,975,304, out of $23,048,675 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 38 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.

What does Nia Tero Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (59%), Arts & Culture (13%), Civil Rights (10%).

Who are Nia Tero Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Conservation International Foundation ($4.8M), Amazon Frontlines ($1.7M), Rudolph Steiner Benevolent Foundation ($1.6M).

Does Nia Tero Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Nia Tero Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rsf Social Finance Inc, Inatai Foundation, The Ford Foundation.

Where is Nia Tero Foundation based?

Nia Tero Foundation is based in WA.

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Washington · Public charity

Nia Tero Foundation

Nia tero works alongside indigenous peoples to secure their guardianship of vital ecosystems. Indigenous peoples are guardians of earth.(see schedule o)

$23M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 25
Itemized grants FY2024: 37
Organizations funded FY2023: 46%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $4.0M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $80,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $644,000
Organizations funded a year: 2 to 38; FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 11
Total assets, FY2024: $81M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 46% of the organizations Nia Tero Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEnvironmentInternationalHuman ServicesEducationCivil RightsOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	24	$3.6M	42%
FY2023	37	$3.3M	46%
FY2022	31	$2.9M	23%
FY2021	38	$3.0M	58%
FY2020	34	$3.7M	88%
FY2019	16	$2.6M	88%
FY2018	2	$430k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Environment$13MArts & Culture$2.7MCivil Rights$2.0MPhilanthropy$1.7MEducation$716kSocial Science$560kHealth$430kInternational$294kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Conservation International Foundation	$4,814,086	5	2%
Amazon Frontlines	$1,726,500	5	13%
Rudolph Steiner Benevolent Foundation	$1,610,250	1	n/a
OneReef Worldwide Stewardship	$1,450,000	4	27%
Boreal Songbird Initiative	$850,000	1	11%
Land is Life Inc	$630,000	5	17%
Blackfeet Eco Knowledge	$549,820	2	51%
If Not Us Then Who	$525,125	5	21%
Rainforest Foundation Inc	$503,025	4	3%
Conservation Agreement Fund A Nj Nonprofit Corporation	$500,000	1	96%

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All grantees of Nia Tero Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Conservation International Foundation	$4,814,086	5	2%
Amazon Frontlines	$1,726,500	5	13%
Rudolph Steiner Benevolent Foundation	$1,610,250	1	n/a
OneReef Worldwide Stewardship	$1,450,000	4	27%
Boreal Songbird Initiative	$850,000	1	11%
Land is Life Inc	$630,000	5	17%
Blackfeet Eco Knowledge	$549,820	2	51%
If Not Us Then Who	$525,125	5	21%
Rainforest Foundation Inc	$503,025	4	3%
Conservation Agreement Fund A Nj Nonprofit Corporation	$500,000	1	96%
Noabu Holdings LLC	$485,500	3	n/a
DTWO LTD DBA Awana Digital	$468,930	4	11%
Pacific Resources for Education and Learning	$400,000	3	5%
Expedicionarios Da Saude Inc	$290,000	1	66%
American Museum of Natural History	$281,840	2	0%
New York Botanical Garden	$265,000	2	0%
Redford Center Inc	$255,793	4	2%
Indian Law Resource Center	$200,000	1	19%
Sundance Institute	$190,000	4	0%
Resources Legacy Fund	$150,000	1	0%
Page Seventy-Three Productions Inc	$150,000	1	15%
Identity Inc	$140,000	3	n/a
Blackfeet Tribe	$136,000	1	n/a
Big Sky Film Institute	$125,000	5	8%
Points North Institute	$125,000	4	3%
Iaf Inc	$110,000	2	53%
Point Hope Productions LLC	$100,000	1	n/a
New York University	$80,000	1	0%
Women Make Movies Inc	$75,000	2	1%
Identity Inc	$75,000	1	27%
Internews Network	$75,000	3	0%
Grist Magazine Inc	$75,000	3	1%
Na'ah Illahee Fund	$70,000	4	1%
Potlatch Fund	$60,000	2	2%
Hawaii International Film Festival	$55,000	4	2%
United Indians of All Tribes Foundation	$55,000	4	0%
Chief Seattle Club	$50,000	2	0%
Native Movement	$50,000	2	0%
Earth Island Institute Inc	$50,000	5	0%
Dwadewayesta LLC	$50,000	2	n/a
Justin Deegan Dba Thunder Revolution Studio LLC	$50,000	1	n/a
Amplifier Foundation	$50,000	1	4%
Rhizomatica Communications	$49,000	1	12%
Conservation Strategy Fund	$45,000	1	1%
Native American Rights Fund Inc	$37,500	1	0%
Gathering Roots Wellness Dba Sacred Land Collective	$35,000	1	1%
The Center for Independent Documentary Inc	$35,000	2	1%
International Indian Treaty Council Inc	$32,450	1	5%
Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians	$30,000	1	n/a
Pierce Conservation District	$30,000	3	n/a
Bartolo Doc LLC	$25,000	1	n/a
International Documentary Foundation Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Sierra Club Foundation	$25,000	1	0%
New York Women in Film & Television Inc	$25,000	1	1%
Thunderheart Media Inc	$25,000	1	3%
International Funders for Indigenous Peoples	$25,000	1	7%
Brave Planet Films LLC	$25,000	1	n/a
Skylight Engagement Inc	$25,000	1	3%
Holes in the Wall Collective Inc	$25,000	1	n/a
Kulia Na Mamo	$25,000	1	n/a
Liminal Films LLC	$25,000	1	n/a
University of Washington Foundation	$25,000	1	0%
Deenaadai' Productions	$25,000	1	n/a
Two Row Productions LLC	$25,000	1	n/a
The Alliance For Media Arts Culture Inc	$25,000	1	2%
Mutual Aid Media LLC	$25,000	1	n/a
The Cultural ConservancySacred Land Foundation	$25,000	1	1%
Tibet Fund Inc	$25,000	2	0%
Southern Documentary Fund	$25,000	1	3%
Cousin Collective Inc	$25,000	1	15%
South Seattle Emerald	$25,000	1	7%
New Mexico Film Foundation	$25,000	1	18%
Castle Legacy LLC	$25,000	1	n/a
Babson College	$25,000	1	0%
Lhaq'Temish Foundation	$20,000	1	2%
Seattle Indian Health Board	$20,000	1	0%
Spiret Foundation	$20,000	2	18%
Duwamish Tribal Services Dba Duwamish Tribal Services Inc	$20,000	2	0%
Blackfeet Community College	$20,000	1	0%
United Territories of Pacific Islanders Washington-Utopia Wa	$20,000	2	0%
The Common Acre	$20,000	1	8%
Photographers Without Borders Inc	$20,000	2	19%
Urban American Indian Alaska Native Education Alli	$20,000	2	2%
Open Arms Perinatal Services	$20,000	2	0%
Native American Journalists Association	$15,000	1	1%
Piegan Institute	$15,000	1	2%
The Society for Ecological Restoration Inc	$10,020	1	1%
Barcid Foundation	$10,000	1	1%
Northwest Film Forum	$10,000	1	1%
Allied Media Projects Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Kitchen Garden Project Inc Garden-Raised Bounty	$10,000	1	1%
Made in Brooklyn Summit Corp	$10,000	1	n/a
El Centro de la Raza	$10,000	1	0%
Native Americans in Philanthropy	$10,000	1	0%
Americans for Indian Opportunity	$10,000	1	2%
The Queens Flowers LLC	$10,000	1	n/a
Sustainable Seattle	$10,000	1	1%
La Bonga LLC	$10,000	1	n/a
Our Childrens Earth Foundation	$10,000	1	1%
Rights and Resources Institute Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Alaska Conservation Foundation	$10,000	1	0%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($223k), not named here.

Nia Tero Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 80 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 80.

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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.

Rsf Social Finance IncCA29.4× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rsf Social Finance Inc · Inatai Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Novo Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · The Christensen Fund · Charlotte y Martin Foundation-Ima · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Na'ah Illahee Fund · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Proteus Fund 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.

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About Nia Tero Foundation

How much does Nia Tero Foundation give?: Nia Tero Foundation reported 25 itemized grants totaling $3,975,304, out of $23,048,675 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 38 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Nia Tero Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (59%), Arts & Culture (13%), Civil Rights (10%).
Who are Nia Tero Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Conservation International Foundation ($4.8M), Amazon Frontlines ($1.7M), Rudolph Steiner Benevolent Foundation ($1.6M).
Does Nia Tero Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Nia Tero Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rsf Social Finance Inc, Inatai Foundation, The Ford Foundation.
Where is Nia Tero Foundation based?: Nia Tero Foundation is based in WA.