Minnesota · Nonprofit
AMERICAN INDIAN CANCER FOUNDATION
AMERICAN INDIAN CANCER FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,538,031 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($1,260,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What American Indian Cancer Foundation does
Mission
Eliminate cancer burdens on american indian and alaska native people through improved access to prevention, early detection, treatment and survivor support.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Community outreach & engagement"1) indigenous pink: a national campaign that supports tribal clinic systems improvement and community health engagement to increase breast health awareness, screening and abnormal follow-ups and culturally tailored health educational resources that promote prevention. It also has a survivorship component. 2) powwow for hope : dancing for life, love & hope: aicaf's annual community healing event and fundraiser to honor loved ones who have faced or are currently facing cancer by creating a space for healing. The event offers love and support to all cancer survivors and caregivers and provides the opportunity for guests to learn more about cancer prevention and resources."
$2,479,912 spent100% of program spendingCancer research and evaluation projects"1) tobacco messaging: a research study to evaluate the effectiveness of the ""keep tobacco sacred"" message compared to a mainstream and tobacco message for prevention among native youth and cessation among native adults. 2) tribal tobacco use program (ttup): a research study to monitor and understand the attitudes, behavior, and beliefs related to tobacco use among participating american indian and alaska native adults to inform the development of tobacco prevention and control initiatives. Ttup has 3 components - implementation, dissemination and sustainability.3) understanding barriers to cancer screening: understanding lung cancer screening is a research study to assess knowledge about attitudes toward lung cancer screening among patients, health professionals, and community leaders. 4) evaluation assistance for tribal cancer programs: aicaf provides evaluation assistance to tribal cancer programs through monitoring, improving, and sustaining quality services for american indian and alaska native nations and communities."
Policy & prevention program area "1) healthy native foods initiative: increases resources and networking on healthy eating and the role of traditional, indigenous foods in cancer prevention and wellness at home, school, work, and at community events. 2) policy, systems, and environmental (pse) support: change strategies support increased resources for developing and supporting culturally tailored pse initiatives for tobacco control, healthy eating, and active living in american indian communities.3) technical assistance/community-driven solutions: aicaf supports communities with community-driven solutions to expand opportunities for active living, healthy eating and commercial tobacco-free living. """ cancer screening projects "1) sage systems change - mdh: engages clinical teams to progressively improve colorectal cancer screening rates by providing clinical systems support, educational materials and tools for patients and clinical teams.2) screen our circle: breast and cervical cancer early detection program: provides effective and sustainable approaches for clinic systems change and reimbursement for screening to participating urban ai/ an clinics for improving cancer…
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,479,912.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $872k to $2.1M (+137%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2019 3% · 2020 39% · 2021 15% · 2022 60% · 2023 41% · 2024 79%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of AMERICAN INDIAN CANCER FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Melissa Buffalo
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Nicole Hallingstad
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $144k → $848k.
5 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN INDIAN CANCER FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AMERICAN INDIAN CANCER FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
42% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AMERICAN INDIAN CANCER FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 79% · 2019 89% · 2020 40% · 2021 67% · 2022 44% · 2023 95% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
8% of AMERICAN INDIAN CANCER FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 29% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
AMERICAN INDIAN CANCER FOUNDATION draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $187k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
AMERICAN INDIAN CANCER FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding AMERICAN INDIAN CANCER FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9.1M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$9.1M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like AMERICAN INDIAN CANCER FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
65%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN CANCER FOUNDATION?
- AMERICAN INDIAN CANCER FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,538,031 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($1,260,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN INDIAN CANCER FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $2,538,031 in grants to AMERICAN INDIAN CANCER FOUNDATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN INDIAN CANCER FOUNDATION?
- THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,260,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN INDIAN CANCER FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 24 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing