Colorado · 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.
- $2.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $2.1M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $37,782
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $452,615
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 38
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $118M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations Oweesta Corporation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 63% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.4M went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Community ImprovementHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterPublic BenefitArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 19 | $2.1M | 26% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $5.4M | 36% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $1.2M | 14% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $2.8M | 27% |
| FY2021 | 38 | $2.2M | 53% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $430k | 42% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $2.3M | 76% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $102k | 0% |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Community Improvement$8.3MFood & Nutrition$2.9MHousing & Shelter$2.0MCivil Rights$767kArts & Culture$671kEnvironment$453kReligion$453kHuman Services$386kOther$0
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
AK
ME
WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
WI
MI
NY
OR
WY
SD
CA
CO
NE
AZ
NM
HI
OK
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Confederated Salish and Kootenai | $2,841,714 | 2 | n/a |
| Homestead Community Development Corp | $738,300 | 5 | 18% |
| Cook Inlet Lending Center | $679,100 | 3 | 31% |
| Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement | $548,886 | 6 | 14% |
| St Croix Chippewa of Indians | $528,615 | 2 | n/a |
| Four Directions Development Corporation | $475,841 | 6 | 9% |
| Tiwa Lending Services Inc | $461,374 | 6 | 18% |
| Wisconsin Native Loan Fund Inc | $458,576 | 9 | 10% |
| Tolowa Dee-Ni' Nation | $452,605 | 1 | n/a |
| Mazaska Owecaso Otipi Financial Inc | $438,301 | 4 | 26% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Confederated Salish and Kootenai | $2,841,714 | 2 | n/a |
| Homestead Community Development Corp | $738,300 | 5 | 18% |
| Cook Inlet Lending Center | $679,100 | 3 | 31% |
| Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement | $548,886 | 6 | 14% |
| St Croix Chippewa of Indians | $528,615 | 2 | n/a |
| Four Directions Development Corporation | $475,841 | 6 | 9% |
| Tiwa Lending Services Inc | $461,374 | 6 | 18% |
| Wisconsin Native Loan Fund Inc | $458,576 | 9 | 10% |
| Tolowa Dee-Ni' Nation | $452,605 | 1 | n/a |
| Mazaska Owecaso Otipi Financial Inc | $438,301 | 4 | 26% |
| NACDC Financial Services Inc | $430,234 | 8 | 8% |
| Wind River Development Fund | $348,827 | 4 | 20% |
| Alutiiq Tribe of Old Harbor | $343,360 | 1 | n/a |
| Hawaiian Community Assets Inc | $331,423 | 4 | 6% |
| Four Bands Community Fund Inc | $324,328 | 3 | 7% |
| White Earth Investment Initiative | $313,445 | 5 | 11% |
| Council for Native Hawaiian | $287,782 | 2 | n/a |
| Kumano I Ke Ala O Makaweli | $275,000 | 2 | 13% |
| Dynamic Community Solutions | $275,000 | 2 | 14% |
| Hi Home Resolutions Inc | $275,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Westwater Financial Inc | $270,600 | 5 | 60% |
| Northwest Native Development Fund | $255,336 | 7 | 9% |
| Hawaii Community Assets | $250,100 | 1 | n/a |
| Ndn Fund Inc | $250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Native American Youth and Family Center | $234,218 | 4 | 1% |
| Akiptan Inc | $225,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Native360 Loan Fund Inc | $210,750 | 3 | 7% |
| The Lakota Fund Incorporated | $205,119 | 5 | 11% |
| Spruce Root Inc | $194,750 | 4 | 8% |
| Grandview Bankshares Inc co Bank of Cherokee | $183,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Village of Solomon | $182,674 | 1 | n/a |
| Black Hills Community Loan Fund Inc | $174,889 | 4 | 7% |
| Warm Springs Community Action Team | $167,413 | 5 | 3% |
| Citizen Potawatomi Nation | $166,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Hawaiian Lending & Investments | $164,539 | 4 | 11% |
| Haa Yakaawu Financial Corporation | $159,330 | 2 | n/a |
| First American Capital Corporation Inc | $150,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Indian Land Capital Company | $150,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Native American Bank | $150,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bay Bancorporation Inc | $150,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Chi Ishobak Inc | $132,500 | 1 | 5% |
| Native Community Capital | $120,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Nimiipuu Community Development Fund | $108,850 | 3 | 8% |
| First Nations Community Financial | $101,892 | 4 | 5% |
| People's Partner for Community | $101,667 | 1 | n/a |
| Tanka Fund | $100,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Waianae Economic Development Council | $92,500 | 2 | 13% |
| Nakoda-Aaniih Credit Agency | $85,000 | 2 | 38% |
| San Carlos Apache Tribe | $85,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Chehalis Tribal Loan Fund | $84,586 | 5 | 20% |
| Woodland Financial Partners | $81,500 | 2 | 18% |
| Leech Lake Financial Services Inc | $79,500 | 1 | 13% |
| Island Mountain Community Development Financial Institution Inc | $76,386 | 4 | 12% |
| Pacific Northwest Tribal Lending Financial Institution | $75,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Seneca Nation of Indians Economic Development Company | $75,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hopi Credit Association | $75,000 | 1 | 12% |
| Fred Leroy Health and Wellness Center Ponca Tribe of Ne | $60,787 | 1 | n/a |
| Native American Development Center | $50,000 | 1 | 11% |
| Taala Fund | $30,156 | 2 | 2% |
| Northern Shores Community | $30,100 | 2 | n/a |
| Pakini Loan Fund | $20,100 | 1 | 20% |
| Nixyaawii Community Financial Services | $20,100 | 1 | 1% |
| Manzeska Ota Tsi Place to Borrow Money | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Five Rivers Loan Fund Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 19% |
| Native Partnership for Housing Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Jamestown Sklallam Tribal Capital Inc | $17,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Change Labs | $17,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lakota Federal Credit Union | $16,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Tiny Tots Learning Center | $11,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Tatanka Funds Incorporated | $9,330 | 1 | 2% |
| Lake Superior Community Development Corporation | $9,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Santee Sioux Nation of Nebraska | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| National Tribal Development Financial Services- a Nonprofit Co | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Muscogee (Creek) Nation | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Plenty Doors Community Development Corporation | $7,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Mni Sota Fund | $5,750 | 1 | 1% |
Where it is load-bearing
Oweesta Corporation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 48 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 48.
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.
Ndn Collective IncSD57.3× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
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
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.
About Oweesta Corporation
- How much does Oweesta Corporation give?
- Oweesta Corporation reported 19 itemized grants totaling $2,055,335, out of $2,140,834 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 38 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Oweesta Corporation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (50%), Food & Nutrition (17%), Housing & Shelter (12%).
- Who are Oweesta Corporation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Confederated Salish and Kootenai ($2.8M), Homestead Community Development Corp ($738k), Cook Inlet Lending Center ($679k).
- Does Oweesta Corporation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Oweesta Corporation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ndn Collective Inc, Northwest Area Foundation, Opportunity Finance Network.
- Where is Oweesta Corporation based?
- Oweesta Corporation is based in CO.
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