Virginia · Nonprofit
AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH RUNNING STRONG INC
AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH RUNNING STRONG INC (Virginia) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,367,053 to it, the largest being THE BUSH FOUNDATION ($1,224,000). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 71
- Grants received
- $5.4M
- Net assets
- $9.9M
What American Indian Youth Running Strong Inc does
Mission
To help american indian people meet their immediate survival needs of food, water, and shelter while implementing and supporting programs designed to create opportunities for self-sufficiency and self-esteem, especially for native youth.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Food, garden, water and basic need:all children need to have access to healthy food, clean water, and safe homes to grow and thrive. Impoverished economic realities of rural and reservation life challenge many american indian communities to meet their children's basic needs. Running strong is dedicated to supporting native community leaders and family's efforts to ensure that their children have a healthy start. Running strong continued our support for critical needs with food and water connections, as well as with thousands of brand-new in-kind items to communities across the country.(see schedule o for continuation)food remains a running strong priority as we work hard to feed children who may otherwise go hungry. Running strong donated 17,339 dry and frozen food boxes to feed families on the pine ridge, standing rock, cheyenne river, cherokee, and crow reservations, along with 47,997.25 lbs of frozen holiday turkeys and 3,917.29 lbs of holiday hams. Each food box weighed approximately 20-30 lbs. And had enough nutritious food to feed a family of four or a week. After teachers told us students returned to school after weekends and school breaks listless and hungry, we started…
$4,792,003 spentof which $4,089,456 as grants49% of program spendingYouth, language and culture:running strong wholeheartedly advocates for native youth prosperity and academic success. In fy25, we supported today we follow tomorrow we lead's youth summer camp on the navajo nation in arizona, ho'ola's summer camp programming in native hawaiian communities, rock hill school district's catawba youth council for middle school and high school students, oceti wakan's youth programs on pine ridge indian reservation, the students at haskell university amidst federal funding cuts to critical programming, and the kansas university endowment association's summertime native storytelling workshop for native youth in lawrence, kansas, and surrounding areas.(see schedule o for continuation)to help native children enjoy the holidays like any other child, along with donating 3,399 brand new toys to families on pine ridge, running strong supported holiday parties and activities for sacred healing circle, through piscataway eyes, brushy cherokee action association, today we follow tomorrow we lead, and indian youth of america.in fy25, running strong operated our oyate ta kola ku community center that we built on the pine ridge indian reservation. This 21,000 square…
$4,506,028 spentof which $3,845,408 as grants46% of program spendingDreamstarter program dreamstarter, dreamstarter teacher, dreamstarter creative, dreamstarter scholarship, keep the dream alive, dreamstarter gold. In his travels throughout the nation, our spokesperson billy mills has witnessed what he calls a "poverty of dreams," wherein native youth do not dare to dream. Dreamstarter aims to support native youth in pursuit of their dreams through a combination of financial support, hands-on mentorship, communications training, and networking. Running strong recognizes that today's native youth are our future leaders and despite the many challenges that native youth face, we can help them follow their dreams. Each year, 10 native youth are selected and through mentorship, networking, and financial assistance, helps them realize their dreams for their communities(see schedule o for continuation)each receiving a dreamstarter grant of $20,000, the 2025 dreamstarters ranged from age 16 to 30 and represented 9 diverse tribal communities: catawba indian nation, shinnecock nation, tlingit & haida, ute indian tribe, navajo nation, chickasaw nation, lumbee tribe, otoe-missouria, and northern arapaho. 2025 mentor organizations included indigenous health…
$471,547 spentof which $402,414 as grants5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,769,578.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2022 to 2023, from $5.8M to $9.3M (+60%).
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: 2017 0% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 1% · 2022 0% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH RUNNING STRONG INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
Bryan L Krizek
President/CEO
Board chair
James J O'Brien Esq
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $27k → $485k.
25 of 71 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $26M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Christian Relief Services Inc); $5.1M from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest American Indian Youth Running Strong Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH RUNNING STRONG INC raised.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH RUNNING STRONG INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 71 funders by total. 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 YOUTH RUNNING STRONG INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
46% 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 YOUTH RUNNING STRONG INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 47% · 2019 21% · 2020 25% · 2021 47% · 2022 15% · 2023 31% — diversifying over time.
“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
27% of AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH RUNNING STRONG INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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 YOUTH RUNNING STRONG INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 20 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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 YOUTH RUNNING STRONG INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH RUNNING STRONG INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$50k
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 YOUTH RUNNING STRONG INC
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 34 states
Part of a family of 22 related entities
- Americans Helping Americans Inc · exempt
- Christian Relief Services Inc · exempt
- Bread and Water for Africa Inc · exempt
- Christian Relief Services of Virginia · exempt
- Christian Relief Services Charities Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH RUNNING STRONG INC?
- AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH RUNNING STRONG INC (Virginia) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,367,053 to it, the largest being THE BUSH FOUNDATION ($1,224,000). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH RUNNING STRONG INC have?
- IRS filings report 71 organizations giving $5,367,053 in grants to AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH RUNNING STRONG INC, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH RUNNING STRONG INC?
- THE BUSH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,224,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH RUNNING STRONG INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 71 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing