Minnesota · Nonprofit
ANISHINAABE AGRICULTURE INSTITUTE
ANISHINAABE AGRICULTURE INSTITUTE (Minnesota) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,776,128 to it, the largest being AKIING 8TH FIRE ($714,628). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $475k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $168k
What Anishinaabe Agriculture Institute does
Mission
Anishinabe agricultural institute is working to restore foodways, rematriate seeds, and make a new economy; one based on local food, energy, and fiber.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Anishinaabe Agriculture Institute has three focus areas: community food, research, and youth education. Indakiingimin means the very land to which we belong is where we live and where the generations ahead will also live. Indakiingimin is our work.community foods: we produce foods for the village of pine point and the people of the white earth reservation, while building capacity for the village and our area to have food security. Our work is primarily with heritage crops of corn, beans, squash, and potatoes, with expansions into laying hens. Our work in 2025, includes the development of adequate infrastructure for the development of food security including partially underground greenhouses and capacity to increase our fields and chicken production. Research: our work is in indigenous crop varietals, and the restoration of these seeds and varieties for our communities, as well as providing educational information for tribal commmunities regionaly and nationally. Our research has included corn which adds nitrogen to the soil, heritage potato varieties, and fiber hemp varieties. Our work with the university of minnesota is primariy on fiber hemp varieties and value added…
$671,522 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $671,522.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $651k to $265k (−59%).
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: 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of ANISHINAABE AGRICULTURE INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 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.
Board chair
James Reents
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $39k → $670k.
4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 ANISHINAABE AGRICULTURE INSTITUTE’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
ANISHINAABE AGRICULTURE INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
57% 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 ANISHINAABE AGRICULTURE INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 52% — 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.
Where its funders are
61% of ANISHINAABE AGRICULTURE INSTITUTE's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $303k 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
ANISHINAABE AGRICULTURE INSTITUTE's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like ANISHINAABE AGRICULTURE INSTITUTE
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ANISHINAABE AGRICULTURE INSTITUTE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ANISHINAABE AGRICULTURE INSTITUTE?
- ANISHINAABE AGRICULTURE INSTITUTE (Minnesota) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,776,128 to it, the largest being AKIING 8TH FIRE ($714,628). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ANISHINAABE AGRICULTURE INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,776,128 in grants to ANISHINAABE AGRICULTURE INSTITUTE, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ANISHINAABE AGRICULTURE INSTITUTE?
- AKIING 8TH FIRE is the largest funder on record, with $714,628 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ANISHINAABE AGRICULTURE INSTITUTE 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 11 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