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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 FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$453k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 19 grants below total $2,055,335, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,140,834 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $85,499 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $268k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $533k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.2M
$37,782
Median grant
13
States reached
$118M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Leech Lake Financial Services: $80k → 14%HOMESTEAD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $500k → 9%Lake Superior CDC: $9k → 14%NORTHWEST NATIVE DEVELOPMENT FUND: $81k → 17%Native American Development Center: $50k → 10%HOMESTEAD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $102k → 9%NORTHWEST NATIVE DEVELOPMENT FUND: $78k → 17%Homestead Community Development Corp: $75k → 9%Northwest Native Development Fund: $26k → 17%HAWAIIAN LENDING & INVESTMENTS: $52k → 9%Northwest Native Development Fund: $10k → 17%Homestead Community Development Corp: $52k → 9%Northwest Native Development Fund: $21k → 17%HAWAIIAN LENDING & INVESTMENTS: $43k → 9%Northwest Native Development Fund: $10k → 17%HAWAIIAN LENDING AND INVESTMENTS: $41k → 9%Northwest Native Development Fund: $20k → 17%HAWAIIAN LENDING & INVESTMENTS: $29k → 9%Northwest Native Development Fund: $10k → 17%Homestead Community Development Corporation: $10k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

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
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 43 repeat orgs$3.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +244% since the first grant, against +55% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
28

Total granted

$14M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+244%
+55%

Still filing today

74%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterPublic BenefitAnimalsEducationOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • HC
    HOMESTEAD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP
    5× · 2019–2024 · $738k · revenue +239%
  • CI
    COOK INLET LENDING CENTER
    3× · 2019–2024 · $679k · revenue +414% · 31% of their budget
  • COUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT
    6× · 2017–2022 · $549k · revenue ×22

Funded once

  • HC
    HAWAII COMMUNITY ASSETS
    one grant, 2024 · $250k
  • NF
    NDN FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +55%
  • IL
    INDIAN LAND CAPITAL COMPANY
    one grant, 2021 · $150k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Community Development Financial Institution - Tohono O'odham Nation

We assist in overall economic development and support new businesses and help to improve personal financial stability through our premier educational and loan services.

Community Improvement
2
Choctaw Home Finance Corporation

To provide affordable home financing to native americans with low and moderate income.

Housing & Shelter
3
Mountain Plains Community Development Corporation

Mountain Plains Community Development Corporation is a private, nonprofit organization, founded in 2022 for the purpose of strengthening the health of Native communities and economies in the Mountain Plains region of Wyoming, Montana,…

Community Improvement
4
Yurok Alliance for Northern California Housing

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.

Housing & Shelter
5
Community Loan Fund of the Capital Region Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
6
Northwest Native Asset Building Coalition

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…

Community Improvement
7
Ho-Chunk Community Capital

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.

Public Benefit
8
Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians Economic Development Corporation

Economic Development

Community Improvement
9
Native Agriculture Financial Services

To serve the capital access and educational needs of farmers and ranchers, and other food and agriculture-related entities, among Native American communities.

Community Improvement
10
American Indian Community Development Corporation

To provide culturally unique initiatives, housing & entrepreneurial programs that will strengthen the american indian community

Housing & Shelter
11
Ratiwennahawi Inc

Fund Indigenous Nations Languate, Culture and Restoration Plans

Education
12
International Indigenous Fund for Development and Solidarity Batani
International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Lakota Fund Incorporated; 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.
04the grantee network

52 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
36
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/52
Grantees still filing
43/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONFEDERATED SALISH AND KOOTENAI: $2,841,714 · OtherCONFEDERATED SALISH AND KOOTENAIST CROIX CHIPPEWA OF INDIANS: $528,615 · OtherST CROIX CHIPPEWA OF INDIANSTOLOWA DEE-NI' NATION: $452,605 · OtherTOLOWA DEE-NI' NATIONALUTIIQ TRIBE OF OLD HARBOR: $343,360 · OtherCOUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN: $287,782 · OtherDYNAMIC COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $275,000 · OtherHI HOME RESOLUTIONS INC: $275,000 · OtherHAWAII COMMUNITY ASSETS: $250,100 · Other+21 more: $2,037,776 · Other+21 moreCOOK INLET LENDING CENTER: $679,100 · Community ImprovementCOOK INLET LENDING CENTERTIWA LENDING SERVICES INC: $461,374 · Community ImprovementTIWA LENDING SERVICES INCNACDC Financial Services Inc: $430,234 · Community ImprovementNACDC Financial Services IncWIND RIVER DEVELOPMENT FUND: $348,827 · Community ImprovementWIND RIVER DEVELOPMENT FUNDFOUR BANDS COMMUNITY FUND INC: $324,328 · Community ImprovementFOUR BANDS COMMUNITY FUND INCWHITE EARTH INVESTMENT INITIATIVE: $313,445 · Community ImprovementWHITE EARTH INVESTMENT INITIATIVEWestwater Financial Inc: $270,600 · Community ImprovementNDN FUND INC: $250,000 · Community ImprovementNATIVE360 LOAN FUND INC: $210,750 · Community ImprovementTHE LAKOTA FUND INCORPORATED: $205,119 · Community ImprovementSPRUCE ROOT INC: $194,750 · Community ImprovementBLACK HILLS COMMUNITY LOAN FUND INC: $174,889 · Community Improvement+19 more: $1,317,963 · Community Improvement+19 moreFour Directions Development Corporation: $475,841 · Housing & ShelterFour Direct…WISCONSIN NATIVE LOAN FUND INC: $458,576 · Housing & ShelterWISCONSIN N…MAZASKA OWECASO OTIPI FINANCIAL INC: $438,301 · Housing & ShelterMAZASKA OWE…HAWAIIAN COMMUNITY ASSETS INC: $331,423 · Housing & ShelterHAWAIIAN CO…+1 more: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterHOMESTEAD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $738,300 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST NATIVE DEVELOPMENT FUND: $255,336 · Human ServicesHAWAIIAN LENDING & INVESTMENTS: $164,539 · Human ServicesLEECH LAKE FINANCIAL SERVICES INC: $79,500 · Human ServicesNATIVE AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $50,000 · Human Services+1 more: $9,000 · Human ServicesCOUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT: $548,886 · EducationKUMANO I KE ALA O MAKAWELI: $275,000 · Arts & CultureAKIPTAN INC: $225,000 · Public BenefitNixyaawii Community Financial Services: $20,100 · Public BenefitManzeska Ota Tsi Place to Borrow Money: $20,000 · Public Benefit
Other$7,291,952Community Improvement$5,181,379Housing & Shelter$1,724,141Human Services$1,296,675Education$548,886Arts & Culture$275,000Public Benefit$265,100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHOMESTEAD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $738,300 over 5y, 18% of budgetCOOK INLET LENDING CENTER: $679,100 over 3y, 31% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT: $548,886 over 6y, 14% of budgetFour Directions Development Corporation: $475,841 over 6y, 8.7% of budgetTIWA LENDING SERVICES INC: $461,374 over 6y, 18% of budgetWISCONSIN NATIVE LOAN FUND INC: $458,576 over 9y, 10% of budgetMAZASKA OWECASO OTIPI FINANCIAL INC: $438,301 over 4y, 26% of budgetNACDC Financial Services Inc: $430,234 over 8y, 7.7% of budgetWIND RIVER DEVELOPMENT FUND: $348,827 over 4y, 20% of budgetHAWAIIAN COMMUNITY ASSETS INC: $331,423 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetFOUR BANDS COMMUNITY FUND INC: $324,328 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetWHITE EARTH INVESTMENT INITIATIVE: $313,445 over 5y, 11% of budgetKUMANO I KE ALA O MAKAWELI: $275,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetDYNAMIC COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $275,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetWestwater Financial Inc: $270,600 over 5y, 60% of budgetNORTHWEST NATIVE DEVELOPMENT FUND: $255,336 over 7y, 9.3% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER: $234,218 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetAKIPTAN INC: $225,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetNATIVE360 LOAN FUND INC: $210,750 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetTHE LAKOTA FUND INCORPORATED: $205,119 over 5y, 11% of budgetSPRUCE ROOT INC: $194,750 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetBLACK HILLS COMMUNITY LOAN FUND INC: $174,889 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetWARM SPRINGS COMMUNITY ACTION TEAM: $167,413 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetHAWAIIAN LENDING & INVESTMENTS: $164,539 over 4y, 11% of budgetFIRST AMERICAN CAPITAL CORPORATION INC: $150,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetCHI ISHOBAK INC: $132,500 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetNimiipuu Community Development Fund: $108,850 over 3y, 8.4% of budgetFIRST NATIONS COMMUNITY FINANCIAL: $101,892 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetTanka Fund: $100,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetWAIANAE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $92,500 over 2y, 13% of budgetNAKODA-AANIIH CREDIT AGENCY: $85,000 over 2y, 38% of budgetCHEHALIS TRIBAL LOAN FUND: $84,586 over 5y, 20% of budgetWOODLAND FINANCIAL PARTNERS: $81,500 over 2y, 18% of budgetLEECH LAKE FINANCIAL SERVICES INC: $79,500 over 1y, 13% of budgetIsland Mountain Community Development Financial Institution Inc: $76,386 over 4y, 12% of budgetPACIFIC NORTHWEST TRIBAL LENDING FINANCIAL INSTITUTION: $75,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetHOPI CREDIT ASSOCIATION: $75,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTAALA FUND: $30,156 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetPAKINI LOAN FUND: $20,100 over 1y, 20% of budgetNixyaawii Community Financial Services: $20,100 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetManzeska Ota Tsi Place to Borrow Money: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFIVE RIVERS LOAN FUND INC: $20,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetNATIVE PARTNERSHIP FOR HOUSING INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE TATANKA FUNDS INCORPORATED: $9,330 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetLAKE SUPERIOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $9,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPLENTY DOORS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $7,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMNI SOTA FUND: $5,750 over 1y, 0.9% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

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 IncNorthwest Area Founda…Opportunity Finance N…First Nations Develop…Native American Agric…Wells Fargo FoundationEnterprise Community …First Peoples FundNeighborhood Reinvest…Cba FundThe Bush FoundationNACDC Financial Servi…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Oweesta Corporation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Oweesta Corporation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 28%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
11report 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 76 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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