· Public charity
Oweesta Corporation
OWEESTA CORPORATION ("oweesta") supports economic growth in native american communities through the creation, development and capitalization of community development financial institutions.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 19 grants below total $2,055,335 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,140,834 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $85,499 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $268k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $533k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST CROIX CHIPPEWA OF INDIANS | $452,615 |
| TOLOWA DEE-NI' NATION | $452,605 |
| ALUTIIQ TRIBE OF OLD HARBOR | $343,360 |
| CONFEDERATED SALISH AND KOOTENAI | $219,771 |
| VILLAGE OF SOLOMON | $182,674 |
| TIWA LENDING SERVICES | $69,689 |
| PONCA TRIBE OF NEBRASKA | $60,787 |
| NATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH AND FAMILY | $40,852 |
| HAWAIIAN LENDING AND INVESTMENTS | $40,750 |
| COUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN | $37,782 |
| WISCONSIN NATIVE LOAN FUND INC | $30,463 |
| LAKOTA FUNDS | $25,000 |
| CEDAR GROWTH (FNCF) | $19,419 |
| CHANGE LABS | $17,000 |
| WARM SPRINGS COMMUNITY ACTION TEAM | $16,710 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +244% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- HCHOMESTEAD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP5× · 2019–2024 · $738k · revenue +239%
- CICOOK INLET LENDING CENTER3× · 2019–2024 · $679k · revenue +414% · 31% of their budget
COUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT6× · 2017–2022 · $549k · revenue ×61
Funded once
- HCHAWAII COMMUNITY ASSETSone grant, 2024 · $250k
- NFNDN FUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +55%
- ILINDIAN LAND CAPITAL COMPANYone grant, 2021 · $150k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
We assist in overall economic development and support new businesses and help to improve personal financial stability through our premier educational and loan services.
To provide affordable home financing to native americans with low and moderate income.
To provide decent housing that is affordable to low-income persons, To promote housing opportunities through below market rate loans, and to support the education and community and social development of Native Americans.
Economic Development
To provide culturally unique initiatives, housing & entrepreneurial programs that will strengthen the american indian community
Community development financial institution that links socially concerned investors with community needs by making affordable housing, community and economic development loans to nonprofit orgs, small businesses and low/moderate income…
To serve the capital access and educational needs of farmers and ranchers, and other food and agriculture-related entities, among Native American communities.
The Native American Community Development Institute (NACDI) is an American Indian community development intermediary - the first of its kind in the region - created by and for American Indians. NACDI is committed to transforming the…
To increase access to capital for native hawaiians residing in hawaii.
To serve as a trusted partner with native american communities and all people of thurston county, nebraska by providing education, loans and financial opportunity for the enhanced quality of life.
The NWNABC is a Western Washington based nonprofit dedicated to empowering Native communities through education and facilitation. Our services focus on asset building and financial education, providing the tools and resources needed to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Lakota Fund Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Hawaiian Lending & Investments. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 14 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) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
52 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. 52 of the 76 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds HOMESTEAD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds COOK INLET LENDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT ↗
- Who funds Four Directions Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds TIWA LENDING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN NATIVE LOAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MAZASKA OWECASO OTIPI FINANCIAL INC ↗
- Who funds NACDC Financial Services Inc ↗
- Who funds WIND RIVER DEVELOPMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds HAWAIIAN COMMUNITY ASSETS INC ↗
- Who funds FOUR BANDS COMMUNITY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WHITE EARTH INVESTMENT INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds KUMANO I KE ALA O MAKAWELI ↗
- Who funds DYNAMIC COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds Westwater Financial Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST NATIVE DEVELOPMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds NDN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds AKIPTAN INC ↗
- Who funds NATIVE360 LOAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE LAKOTA FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SPRUCE ROOT INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK HILLS COMMUNITY LOAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WARM SPRINGS COMMUNITY ACTION TEAM ↗
- Who funds HAWAIIAN LENDING & INVESTMENTS ↗
- Who funds FIRST AMERICAN CAPITAL CORPORATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Ndn Collective Inc · Northwest Area Foundation · Opportunity Finance Network · First Nations Development Institute · Native American Agriculture Fund · Wells Fargo Foundation · Enterprise Community Partners Inc · First Peoples Fund · Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation · Cba Fund · The Bush Foundation · NACDC Financial Services Inc
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 Oweesta Corporation 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.
- Nixyaawii Community Financial Services — 100% of income from government
- Warm Springs Community Action Team — 28% of income from government
- Native American Youth and Family Center — 23% of income from government
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.