South Dakota · Nonprofit
COUP Council
COUP Council (South Dakota) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $732,290 to it, the largest being NDN COLLECTIVE INC ($285,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $366k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $732k
- Net assets
- $426k
What COUP Council does
Mission
To retain Lakota culture and build our collective power to bring justice and healing in the heart of Oceti Sakowin territory.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Created the Wotakuye Fund for Healing Justice & Mutual Aid for individuals directly impacted by police violence and other violent crime. Sponsored "water for relatives" campaign to provide free, cold water on hot summer days to the unhoused relatives that often congregate in our commercial office space areas. Housed 16 people in COUP owned residential complex. Co-sponsorship of Traditional Birth Work Gathering in summer 2024. Engaged in comprehensive, state-wide civic engagement effort Native Vote South Dakota for the general election.
$346,702 spentof which $1,500 as grants$8,313 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $346,702.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $107k to $640k (+500%).
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.
98% of COUP Council’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
Natalie Stites Means
Executive Director
Board chair
Chantelle Blue Arm
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $85k → $110k.
From the IRS filings of COUP Council’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
COUP Council has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 39% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
72% 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 COUP Council.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 61% · 2023 30% — 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
COUP Council draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside South Dakota, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
COUP Council's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,798 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like COUP Council
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 South Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COUP Council: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds COUP Council?
- COUP Council (South Dakota) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $732,290 to it, the largest being NDN COLLECTIVE INC ($285,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COUP Council have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $732,290 in grants to COUP Council, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COUP Council?
- NDN COLLECTIVE INC is the largest funder on record, with $285,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COUP Council find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Dakota. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 10 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