Minnesota · Nonprofit
Indigenous Roots
Indigenous Roots (Minnesota) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,647,255 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($1,062,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $4.6M
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Indigenous Roots does
Mission
Indigenous Roots Cultural Center (IRoots) is a coalition of artists, culture bearers, business owners, cultural groups and organizations dedicated to building, supporting and cultivating opportunities for and with Brown, Black, Native and Indigenous Peoples through cultural arts and activism.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
In 2024 the Organization purchased property in Mataxhi, Mexico and activated the land as Centro Noxtitlan which will be a culture bearer residency center when fuly remodeled. The Organization hosted its first culture bearer exchange to the property in fall of 2024. This initiative is rooted in ancestral teachings and aims to foster economic opportunities and cultural exchange among Indigenous communities in Mataxhi, surrounding regions in Mexico, and the United States.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
In 2024, the Organization heavily invested into organizational, strategic growth as we expanded to be an international organization. Having run on low administrative overhead for close to a decade, we leaned into process improvement with the help of past audits and hired 2 additional full time staff - a Partnerships Director and an Administrative Director who doubles as our youth workforce manager. Indigenous Roots also fulfills their mission by focusing its efforts in the following primary service areas:Culture Bearers:Culture Bearers practice intergenerational lifeways and living, evolving cultural art practices that educate, exchange, and share in order to preserve ancestral knowledge. In this work, Culture Bearers hold a direct throughline from ancestors and teachers and center sharing their practice with youth. The role of a culture bearer is particularly important within ancestral cultures undergoing transition or experiencing threat from outside and dominating culture(s). Culture Bearers accept a responsibility to share ancestral and cultural knowledge. The practice of being a Culture Bearer is distinct from other individual art practices because the practice is a full life…
$906,205 spentof which $26,954 as grants$61,810 earned by the program100% of program spendingYouth-Led and Youth-Centered Programming:Indigenous Roots is home to the Interthrival Indigenous Youth Coalition (IIYC) which is a youth council that acts as the driving force behind the representation of youth voice in our space. As such, we have a variety of youth-centered programming and events taking place. At the core of our youth work is Roots Cafe - a youth led, creative economy development program. Roots Cafe not only offers a safe environment to develop employment skills, but provides a space for youth to form positive adult relationships, and connect with their cultural identity.
$27,059 earned by the programArtist and Business Incubation:Indigenous Roots IRoots is a coalition of artists, culture bearers, business owners, cultural groups and organizations dedicated to building, supporting and cultivating opportunities for and with Brown, Black, Native and Indigenous Peoples through cultural arts and activism. As such, we lend our space, resources and networks to emerging BIPOC artists, culture bearers and small business owners seeking to establish themselves. We do this for example by hosting 8-10 emerging artists gallery exhibitions throughout the year, sharing storefront space with small businesses, grant writing assistance and more. Our collective partners include BLCK Press, City Mischief, Indigenous Lotus, Videos de Sancho, Karaya Guey, Kalpulli Yaocenoxtli, Conferencia Alianza Latinx, Filipinx for Immigrant Rights and Racial Justice in Minnesota, Esencia Mexicana, Cypher Side and a dozen other artists and groups and we act as fiscal sponsor for a large variety of smaller organizations.
Community Responsive Programming, Advocacy and Special Events:Beyond our regular programming, Indigenous Roots receives a lot of requests for partner- and allyship for events, social justice and community related projects, events and more. As we continually aim to meet the ever changing needs of a widely diverse community, our programming shifts throughout the years, including a variety of staple events that activate community and provide opportunities for engagement with large audiences. These events also offer economic opportunities for a wide range of artists and Black, Brown and Indigenous vendors.
Culture Bearer Residency Center - Centro Noxtitlan, Mataxhi, MX:In 2024, we completed the purchase of 100 acres of land with a 3,500 sq ft hacienda and horse stable based in Mataxhi, MX just an hour outside of Mexico City. Centro Cultural Noxtitlan is a vibrant cultural center established through a partnership between US-based and local Indigenous leaders and in October 2024, we completed our first cultural exchange bringing elders and youth to the land. This initiative is rooted in ancestral teachings and aims to foster economic opportunities and cultural exchange among Indigenous communities in Mataxhi, surrounding regions in Mexico, and the United States. After two years of collaboration with the Mataxhi community, Kalpulli Yaocenoxtli and Indigenous Roots leaders seized the opportunity to acquire this land as part of a landback effort, which will eventually provide locals with land access and economic development.In our work, we are often leveraging our vast network of community partners as well as being called on for policy work, advocacy on various levels and engage in policy work that pushes for adequate representation and funding for core issues identified within the…
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $906,205.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $1.3M to $2.2M (+72%).
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: 2019 8% · 2020 11% · 2021 2% · 2022 3% · 2023 21% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of Indigenous Roots’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% 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.
Chief executive
Mary Anne Quiroz
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $33k → $844k.
12 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 Indigenous Roots’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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
Indigenous Roots has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
55% 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 Indigenous Roots.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 63% · 2019 67% · 2020 63% · 2021 28% · 2022 51% · 2023 15% — 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
58% of Indigenous Roots'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
87% of Indigenous Roots's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
Indigenous Roots has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Indigenous Roots receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $100k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$100k
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 Indigenous Roots
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
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 Indigenous Roots: 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 Indigenous Roots?
- Indigenous Roots (Minnesota) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,647,255 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($1,062,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Indigenous Roots have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $4,647,255 in grants to Indigenous Roots, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Indigenous Roots?
- The McKnight Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,062,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Indigenous Roots 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 42 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