Minnesota · Nonprofit
DAKOTA WICOHAN
DAKOTA WICOHAN (Minnesota) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,634,948 to it, the largest being NOVO FOUNDATION ($625,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $779k
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $494k
What Dakota Wicohan does
Mission
Preserving dakota as a living language and through it transmit dakota life ways to future generations
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Youth programs - to develop and support emerging leadership that leads with wo'dakota. Youth are provided with a proven after school program that helps revitalize their traditional culture while also teaching a substantial number of life skills. Youths participate in leadership building activities, suicide prevention efforts, language classes, financial literacy classes, take care of and learn to rides horses, learn to sing traditional dakota songs, post-secondary counseling and also lead a native american 4h group. Our youth are the future leaders of the dakota community and it is critical that they be mentored and developed with a foundation of traditional dakota values.
$440,369 spent74% of program spendingLifeway programs - to support and inspire a new generation of dakota artists. The tawokaga program gives emerging and master artists opportunities to either develop or teach their respective art skill. This includes beading, brain tanning, horse regalia and quilling. This in turn increases appreciation of dakota arts in the community and inspires new artists to get involved. Arts have long been a part of traditional dakota culture and these art making practices have been passed down many generations. Dakota Wicohan continues this tradition with optimism.
$145,137 spent24% of program spendingCurriculum project - dakota homelands curriculum project-this project makes available to schools around the region a high-quality ten-lesson curriculum that introduces dakota environmental teachings and applies these teachings to minnesota history. Through this educational resource, students learn about and integrate dakota values of caring for the land as a relative. Teachers are supported through specialized training to appropriately implement the curriculum. The curriculum is accessible online where project staff can make updates and additions as more classrooms integrate the curriculum into their 6th grade classrooms.
$12,095 spent$16,708 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $597,601.
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 2020 to 2021, from $300k to $624k (+108%).
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 65% · 2018 30% · 2019 46% · 2020 34% · 2021 27% · 2022 19% · 2023 16% · 2024 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of DAKOTA WICOHAN’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $74k → $647k.
9 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 DAKOTA WICOHAN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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
DAKOTA WICOHAN has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
56% 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 DAKOTA WICOHAN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 42% · 2019 35% · 2020 28% · 2021 22% · 2022 30% · 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
53% of DAKOTA WICOHAN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
DAKOTA WICOHAN draws 68% 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. $669k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
DAKOTA WICOHAN's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 12 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like DAKOTA WICOHAN
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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
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 DAKOTA WICOHAN: 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 DAKOTA WICOHAN?
- DAKOTA WICOHAN (Minnesota) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,634,948 to it, the largest being NOVO FOUNDATION ($625,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DAKOTA WICOHAN have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $2,634,948 in grants to DAKOTA WICOHAN, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DAKOTA WICOHAN?
- NOVO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $625,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DAKOTA WICOHAN 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 31 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