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The Notah Begay III Foundation Inc

The notah begay iii foundation's (nb3f) mission is to ensure native children achieve their full potential by advancing cultures of native american community health.

$84k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of THE NOTAH BEGAY III FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 1 grants below total $75,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $83,885 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $8,885 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.

$75,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SALT RIVER PIMA-MARICOPA INDIAN$75,000
02The need
03

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 (FY18–21, $148k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MINNEAPOLIS AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER: $65k → 11%CENTER POLE: $8k → 23%KNO'QOTI NATIVE WELLNESS INC: $9k → 17%EL RANCHITO DE LOS NINOS FOUNDATION: $10k → 19%DENVER INDIAN FAMILY RESOURCE: $5k → 12%NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY BOARD: $9k → 22%COALITION TO STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST: $22k → 14%COALITION TO STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST: $20k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.6M · 26 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
49

Total granted

$2.6M
$976k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+8%

Still filing today

65%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther

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

  • CO
    COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND PATIENT EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM INC
    4× · 2018–2023 · $340k · revenue +49%
  • GL
    GREAT LAKES INTER-TRIBAL COUNCIL
    2× · 2021–2023 · $275k · revenue +41%
  • AP
    ALEUTIAN PRIBILOF ISLANDS ASSOCIATION INC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $275k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • KW
    KUL WICASA WOPASIgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +68%
  • DF
    Drive Fore Juniors Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $90k · revenue 0% · 64% of their budget
  • MA
    Minneapolis American Indian Centergraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $65k · revenue +211%

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

04Your 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.

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Indigenous Women Rising Indigeous Women Rising
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2
Native Healing Llc
Animals
3
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
4
The Indigenous Knowledge Collective

The Indigenous Knowledge Collective is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that serves people in New Mexico and Arizona in a Native lead environment to sustain the revitalization of traditional existence of Native People through Art Lessons,…

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5
Cihuapactli Collective

The Cihuapactli Collective's purpose is to provide healing for urban Indigenous Peoples from the diaspora. This is done by sharing wisdom, connecting resources, revitalizing Traditional Knowledge, promoting and advocating for health &…

Arts & Culture
6
Naa Kaani Native Program

The naa kaani native program strives to educate and empower native communities in the pacific norhtwest, with a focus on the salish sea territory. we support cultural events, advocate for tribal rights, and aim to improve lives and…

Community Improvement
7
Native American Fiber Program
Environment
8
Native Wellness Institute

The Native Wellness Institute provides wellness and healing related training and technical assistance to Indian tribes and organizations that is based in Native culture that keeps the teachings of our ancestors alive.

Human Services
9
The Foundation for Indigenous Education Leadership Development
Education
10
Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board

The mission of the organization is to assist northwest tribes to improve the health status and quality of life of member tribes and indian people in their delivery of culturally appropriate and holistic health care.

Health
11
North American Indian Center of Boston

To provide educational, health and cultural enrichment programs to native americans.

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12
Urban Indian Center of Salt Lake

To serve The People by honoring Native cultures, strengthening health and wellness programs, and cultivating community. We envision all Native peoples living balanced, prosperous, and healthy lives in diverse communities for Seven…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Native American Youth and Family Center and the most unlike its peers is Indigenous Idaho Alliance 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …Pregnancy Support ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacyDomestic Violence ServicesChristian Missionary Organi…
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 17 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%7%<5yr14%14%5–10yr19%41%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%7%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%5%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%43%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr16%15%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%2/77
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,488

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.

04the grantee network

44 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. 44 of the 77 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/44
Grantees still filing
29/44
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GREAT LAKES INTER-TRIBAL COUNCIL — $275,000 · OtherGREAT LAKES INTER-TRIBAL COUNCILHO-CHUNK NATION — $275,000 · OtherHO-CHUNK NATIONPUEBLO OF SANTA ANA — $92,250 · OtherPUEBLO OF SANTA ANALOWER SIOUX INDIAN COMMUNITY — $80,000 · OtherSALT RIVER PIMA-MARICOPA — $75,000 · OtherTAMAYA WELLNESS CENTER — $67,222 · OtherLOWER ELWHA KLALLAM TRIBE — $65,000 · OtherPueblo of Zia — $60,000 · Other+37 more — $699,403 · Other+37 moreKUL WICASA WOPASI — $200,000 · EducationKUL WICASA WOPA…RAMAH NAVAJO SCHOOL BOARD INC — $105,000 · EducationRAMAH NAVAJO SC…PAINTED DESERT DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS INC — $65,250 · EducationPAINTED DESERT …Native Health Initiative — $52,472 · EducationNative Health I…Mountain Chief Institute A Center for Tribal Excellence Inc — $42,222 · EducationMountain Chief …KERES CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER — $35,000 · EducationKERES CHILDREN'…+1 more — $6,106 · EducationCOMMUNITY OUTREACH AND PATIENT EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM INC — $340,250 · HealthCOMMUNITY OUT…FIRST NATIONS COMMUNITY HEALTHSOURCE — $58,106 · HealthFIRST NATIONS…NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CLINIC — $15,000 · Health+3 more — $24,800 · Health+3 moreALEUTIAN PRIBILOF ISLANDS ASSOCIATION INC — $275,000 · Community ImprovementALEUTIAN PRIB…THUNDER VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COR — $74,600 · Community ImprovementTHUNDER VALLE…NEW MEXICO COMMUNITY CAPITAL — $52,472 · Community ImprovementNEW MEXICO CO…+2 more — $19,000 · Community ImprovementZUNI YOUTH ENRICHMENT PROJECT — $137,450 · Youth DevelopmentZUNI YOUT…Drive Fore Juniors Inc — $90,000 · Youth DevelopmentDrive For…NATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER — $82,250 · Youth DevelopmentNATIVE AM…+1 more — $8,106 · Youth DevelopmentMinneapolis American Indian Center — $65,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER — $50,000 · Human ServicesCOALITION TO STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST NATIVE WOMEN — $42,222 · Human ServicesEL RANCHITO DE LOS NINOS FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Human ServicesNATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY BOARD — $9,200 · Human ServicesKnoQoti Native Wellness Inc — $9,000 · Human ServicesCenter Pole — $7,800 · Human Services+1 more — $5,200 · Human ServicesAMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSING ORGANIZATION — $75,250 · Housing & ShelterOglala Sioux Tribe Partnership for Housing Inc — $8,600 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,688,875Education$506,050Health$438,156Community Improvement$421,072Youth Development$317,806Human Services$198,422Housing & Shelter$83,850

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOMMUNITY OUTREACH AND PATIENT EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM INC — $340,250 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetGREAT LAKES INTER-TRIBAL COUNCIL — $275,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetALEUTIAN PRIBILOF ISLANDS ASSOCIATION INC — $275,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetZUNI YOUTH ENRICHMENT PROJECT — $137,450 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetRAMAH NAVAJO SCHOOL BOARD INC — $105,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDrive Fore Juniors Inc — $90,000 over 1y, 64% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER — $82,250 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSING ORGANIZATION — $75,250 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetTHUNDER VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COR — $74,600 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPAINTED DESERT DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS INC — $65,250 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetFIRST NATIONS COMMUNITY HEALTHSOURCE — $58,106 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNEW MEXICO COMMUNITY CAPITAL — $52,472 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetNative Health Initiative — $52,472 over 2y, 23% of budgetTHE BEN INITIATIVE — $50,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY ACADEMY FOUNDATION — $42,222 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetMountain Chief Institute A Center for Tribal Excellence Inc — $42,222 over 2y, 52% of budgetNATIONAL INDIAN YOUTH COUNCIL INC — $42,222 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCOALITION TO STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST NATIVE WOMEN — $42,222 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetKERES CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER — $35,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetSOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT — $30,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CLINIC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE RICHARDSON CENTER FOR GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT — $10,408 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetINDIGENOUS LIFEWAYS — $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetEL RANCHITO DE LOS NINOS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDAR A LUZ BIRTH & HEALTH CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL NEW MEXICO INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNDN COLLECTIVE INC — $9,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAJO CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE — $9,400 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY BOARD — $9,200 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCENTRAL OKLAHOMA AMERICAN INDIAN HEALTH COUNCIL INC — $8,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOglala Sioux Tribe Partnership for Housing Inc — $8,600 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetCHEYENNE RIVER YOUTH PROJECT INC — $8,106 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCenter Pole — $7,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIVE ACTION NETWORK — $7,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN EDUCATION FOR THE SANTA FE PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $6,106 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCONSOLIDATED TRIBAL HEALTH PROJECT INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER INDIAN FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER — $5,200 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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 Develop…Ndn Collective IncNew Mexico Community …Common Counsel Founda…Native American Agric…National Indian Healt…Seventh Generation Fu…Albuquerque Community…Novo FoundationSanta Fe Community Fo…Albuquerque Area Indi…Chamiza Foundation
First Nations Development InstituteCO70.4× affinity35 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 · New Mexico Community Foundation · Common Counsel Foundation · Native American Agriculture Fund · National Indian Health Board · Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Inc · Albuquerque Community Foundation · Novo Foundation · Santa Fe Community Foundation · Albuquerque Area Indian Health Board Inc · Chamiza Foundation

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 The Notah Begay III 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 23%
  • Native American Youth and Family Center — 23% of income from government
  • Central Oklahoma American Indian Health Council Inc — 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

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How do I get to The Notah Begay III Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Notah Begay III Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 77 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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