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The Washington Redskins Original Americans Foundation

Its FY2018 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$303k
Granted FY2018
57
Grants FY2018
9
States reached
$53k
Largest
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 2018.

Education$314kCommunity Improvement$243kCivil Rights$225kYouth Development$171k
02FY2018 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k52 grants · $155k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $95k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
$3,430
Median grant
9
States reached
$1k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Pueblo of Zuni$53,157
Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska$46,869
Ft Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribe$20,000
Lower Brule Sioux Tribe$15,350
Gallup McKinley County Schools$13,200
Holbrook High School$6,600
Window Rock High School$6,600
Santa Fe Indian School$6,600
McLoud High School$6,600
Piedra Vista High School$6,600
Hill County School District$6,600
Taos High School$6,600
Window Rock High School$5,279
Zuni High School$4,735
Page High School$3,893
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Page High School: $4k → 16%White Mountain Apache Tribe: $20k → 19%Joseph City High School: $4k → 26%Window Rock High School: $7k → 28%Hill County School District: $7k → 18%Crow Nation: $5k → 23%Ft Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribe: $20k → 24%Santa Fe Indian School: $7k → 12%Valley High School: $4k → 14%Taos High School: $7k → 18%Mescalero High School: $4k → 20%Farmington High School: $4k → 22%Ramah High School: $4k → 30%Pueblo of Zuni: $53k → 32%Delaware Tribe of Indians: $20k → 14%McLoud High School: $7k → 19%Catawba Indian Nation: $22k → 8%Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska: $47k → 14%Lower Brule Sioux Tribe: $63k → 22%Crow Creek Sioux Tribe: $36k → 40%Aroostook Band of Micmac: $119k → 15%Page Jr High School: $4k → 16%Window Rock High School: $5k → 28%Chippewa Cree Tribe: $125k → 18%Ft Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribe: $20k → 24%Taos High School: $4k → 18%Pueblo of Zuni: $10k → 32%Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska: $36k → 14%Monticello High School: $4k → 23%Lower Brule Sioux Tribe: $15k → 22%Window Rock High School: $4k → 28%Rocky Boy High School: $23k → 18%Zuni High School: $5k → 32%Winslow High School: $4k → 26%Red Mesa High School: $26k → 28%Laguna Acoma High School: $4k → 30%Crownpoint High School: $4k → 32%Red Mesa Jr HS: $4k → 28%Holbrook High School: $7k → 26%Piedra Vista High School: $8k → 22%Snowflake High School: $4k → 26%Piedra Vista High School: $7k → 22%Holbrook High School: $4k → 26%Ganado High School: $4k → 28%Gallup McKinley County Schools: $13k → 32%Miyamura High School: $4k → 32%Aztec High School: $4k → 22%Thoreau Middle School: $4k → 32%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

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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.

40%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$383k · 20 repeat orgs$570k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
26

Total granted

$383k
$453k

Still filing today

0%
4%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $118k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • IT
    Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska
    2× · 2017–2018 · $83k
  • LB
    Lower Brule Sioux Tribe
    2× · 2017–2018 · $78k
  • PO
    Pueblo of Zuni
    2× · 2017–2018 · $63k

Funded once

  • CC
    Chippewa Cree Tribe
    one grant, 2017 · $125k
  • AB
    Aroostook Band of Micmac
    one grant, 2017 · $119k
  • CC
    Crow Creek Sioux Tribe
    one grant, 2017 · $36k
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
04the grantee network

3 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. 3 of the 78 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
3/3
Grantees still filing
3/3
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Chippewa Cree Tribe: $125,000 · OtherChippewa Cree TribeAroostook Band of Micmac: $119,442 · OtherAroostook Band of MicmacIowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska: $83,134 · OtherIowa Tribe of Kansas and NebraskaLower Brule Sioux Tribe: $78,216 · OtherLower Brule Sioux TribePueblo of Zuni: $63,157 · OtherPueblo of ZuniFt Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribe: $40,000 · OtherCrow Creek Sioux Tribe: $36,265 · Other+68 more: $394,559 · Other+68 moreSANTA FE INDIAN SCHOOL: $6,600 · EducationNavajo Preparatory School Inc: $3,745 · EducationSICANGU OYATE HO INC DBA ST FRANCIS INDIAN SCHOOL: $2,887 · Education
Other$939,773Education$13,232

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSANTA FE INDIAN SCHOOL: $6,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNavajo Preparatory School Inc: $3,745 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSICANGU OYATE HO INC DBA ST FRANCIS INDIAN SCHOOL: $2,887 over 1y, 0.0% 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 SANTA FE INDIAN SCHOOL ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

First Nations Development InstituteCO13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 The Washington Redskins Original Americans Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Washington Redskins Original Americans Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report 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
    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.
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    How do I get to The Washington Redskins Original Americans Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Washington Redskins Original Americans Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 78 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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