New Mexico · Nonprofit
INDIAN COUNTRY GRASSROOTS SUPPORT
INDIAN COUNTRY GRASSROOTS SUPPORT (New Mexico) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $947,109 to it, the largest being Ladybug Foundation Inc ($205,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $396k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $947k
- Net assets
- $628k
What Indian Country Grassroots Support does
Mission
To support navajo nation families toward wellness by integrating traditional ecological knowledge and indigenous jurisprudence with professional research in geography, history, law, and culture, enabling families to reach informed economic, social, and health solutions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Navajo family voices (nfv) provides family-to-family support and health information for children and youth with special healthcare needs in the shiprock, ft. Defiance, and eastern navajo service units using a din wellness model. This year, nfv hosted its third "envisioning families" forum, where five families presented integrated solutions for land-use management and healthcare decision-making. Nfv also recruited family leaders with lived experience and collaborated with navajo nation police on a video encouraging community participation in rural addressing systems to improve emergency response times.
$51,121 spent19% of program spendingDin nihi keyah project (dnkp) developed and distributed 300+ educational toolkits on land use and stewardship to advance tribal law knowledge among families and professionals. Dnkp published a peer-reviewed legal analysis in the urban lawyer (aba national policy law journal). Separately, dnkp launched a governance initiative training 12 local community leaders on sustainable land-use planning and administrative practices.
$12,438 spent5% of program spendingIndian Country Grassroots Support (icgs) serves as the administrative home for nfv and dnkp. In 2025, icgs concluded the northern din covid relief effort, a volunteer coalition that distributed essential supplies. Icgs produced a two-hour video panel featuring systems thinker patrick anderson and retired chief justice herb yazzie, examining tribal governance, self- governance compacting, and leadership structures (110 participants). Icgs also maintains academic internships for university and law school students in tribal law and governance research.
$199,541 spent76% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $263,100.
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 2020 to 2021, from $313k to $443k (+41%).
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: 2020 17% · 2021 25% · 2022 29% · 2023 36% · 2024 31% · 2025 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of INDIAN COUNTRY GRASSROOTS SUPPORT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Board chair
Herb Yazzie
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $50k → $135k.
6 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 INDIAN COUNTRY GRASSROOTS SUPPORT’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
INDIAN COUNTRY GRASSROOTS SUPPORT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
61% 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 INDIAN COUNTRY GRASSROOTS SUPPORT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 81% · 2020 19% · 2021 68% · 2022 25% · 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.
How long its funders stay
13% of INDIAN COUNTRY GRASSROOTS SUPPORT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
INDIAN COUNTRY GRASSROOTS SUPPORT draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside New Mexico, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $404k 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
INDIAN COUNTRY GRASSROOTS SUPPORT holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,668 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,668 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding INDIAN COUNTRY GRASSROOTS SUPPORT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $766k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$766k
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 INDIAN COUNTRY GRASSROOTS SUPPORT
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 New Mexico
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
71%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INDIAN COUNTRY GRASSROOTS SUPPORT: 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 INDIAN COUNTRY GRASSROOTS SUPPORT?
- INDIAN COUNTRY GRASSROOTS SUPPORT (New Mexico) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $947,109 to it, the largest being Ladybug Foundation Inc ($205,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INDIAN COUNTRY GRASSROOTS SUPPORT have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $947,109 in grants to INDIAN COUNTRY GRASSROOTS SUPPORT, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INDIAN COUNTRY GRASSROOTS SUPPORT?
- Ladybug Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $205,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INDIAN COUNTRY GRASSROOTS SUPPORT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Mexico. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 20 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