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Waub Ajijaak Press & Foundation

Soaring to new heights through education, advocacy, and empowerment for our native american communities in the great lakes and beyond.

$139k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
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States reached
$27k
Largest
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01What it funds
01FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $105,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $139,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $34,000 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–50k7 grants · $99k
$12,000
Median grant
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States reached
$216k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NOKOMIS CULTURAL HERITAGE CENTER$27,000
WABANAKI YOUTH IN SCIENCE$15,000
THE HUMBLE HORSE$15,000
MIDWEST SOARRING FOUNDATION$12,000
SKUTIK RIVER RESTORATION TRUST$10,000
GEDAKINA$10,000
NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER OF CENTRAL OHIO$10,000
AIN DAH YUNG (OUR HOME) CENTER$6,000
02Its 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
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
2
Indigenous Women Rising Indigeous Women Rising
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3
Tatanka Wanbli Society

A nonprofit organization dedicated to the retention of indigenous cultures, traditions and spirituality. We provide information and educational resources to Native American people, aid in the re-establishment of strong familial and…

Human Services
4
Central Wisconsin Indigenous Peoples Day
Arts & Culture
5
Niweskok

Niweskok, a collaboration of food and medicine providers, rematriates Wabanaki life ways by engaging with our kinship responsibilities and reclaiming traditional foods and healing. We prioritize restoring the Penobscot Bay region as a…

Food & Nutrition
6
Matriarch Ways Inc

Our work is about action, restoration, and strengthening our communities. From cultural resurgence and mutual aid to advocacy and education, we create spaces where Indigenous ways of knowing are honored and success is defined by our…

Human Services
7
Mahkato Mdewakanton Association
Human Services
8
Painted Sky Inc
Arts & Culture
9
Native American Fiber Program
Environment
10
Native Healing Llc
Animals
11
Great Lakes Lifeways Institute

Great Lakes Lifeways Institute partners with communities to revitalize living land-based knowledge through practice. For nearly fifteen years, our work; canoes, lodges, food systems, harvest camps, and intergenerational learning, has…

Arts & Culture
12
Museum of Native American History Inc
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wabanaki Womens Coalition Inc; the most unlike its peers is Trickster Art Gallery. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
02the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 15 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)
10/10
Grantees still filing
1/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NOKOMIS LEARNING CENTER: $27,000 · OtherNOKOMIS LEARNING CENTERMICHIGAN INDIAN EDUCATION COUNCIL: $15,000 · OtherMICHIGAN INDIAN EDUCATION COUNCILWILD BEARIES: $15,000 · OtherWILD BEARIESHUMBLE HORSE INC: $15,000 · OtherHUMBLE HORSE INCNATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN WARRIORS: $7,000 · OtherNATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN WARRIORSWABANAKI WOMENS COALITION INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesWABANAKI WOMENS COALI…The KWEK Society: $10,000 · Human ServicesThe KWEK SocietyNative American Indian Center of Central Ohio Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesNative American India…AIN DAH YUNG (OUR HOME) CENTER: $6,000 · Human ServicesAIN DAH YUNG (OUR HOM…Midwest Save Our Ancestors Remains and Resources Indigenous Network Group Found: $12,000 · Arts & CultureMidwest Save Our …AMERICAN INDIAN ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS: $10,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN INDIAN A…TRICKSTER ART GALLERY: $8,000 · Arts & CultureTRICKSTER ART GAL…WABANAKI YOUTH IN SCIENCE INC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentWABANAKI YOUTH…GEDAKINA INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementSkutik River Restoration Trust: $10,000 · Environment
Other$79,000Human Services$36,000Arts & Culture$30,000Youth Development$25,000Community Improvement$10,000Environment$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWABANAKI YOUTH IN SCIENCE INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetGEDAKINA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetWABANAKI WOMENS COALITION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetSkutik River Restoration Trust: $10,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetThe KWEK Society: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNative American Indian Center of Central Ohio Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetTRICKSTER ART GALLERY: $8,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAIN DAH YUNG (OUR HOME) CENTER: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Waub Ajijaak Press & Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Waub Ajijaak Press & Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%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
    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 Waub Ajijaak Press & Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Waub Ajijaak Press & 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 15 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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