Montana · Nonprofit
INDIGENOUS VOTE
INDIGENOUS VOTE (Montana) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $595,130 to it, the largest being MAJORITY FORWARD ($150,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $4k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $595k
- Net assets
- $253k
What Indigenous Vote does
Mission
We develop and advocate for legislation, regulation and public policies that protect the rights of Native Americans, increase voter participation and support Native rights to political, economic, and cultural self-determination. We advocate for the election and appointment of Native leaders to public office.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Educating our community members through outreach activities and being present to visit and support their ideas for change.
$217,836 spent100% of program spendingVoter Participation: we worked to educate Native Americans across Montana and ensure they had the information on voting, how to register to vote, reasons to vote and the importance of being active voters.
Leadership Development: we cultivate relationships with current and future leaders in our Native communities. We hosted trainings designed to build the skills and confidence needed to become effective leaders. We provided training and development opportunities for our staff to build their skills. We identified and met with potential leaders and encourage them to pursue election and appointment to Tribal Council, TERO boards, and the state legislature.
Indigenous Movements Interchange: we hosted the annual Indigenous Movements Interchange conference to bring together Native Americans across Montana to discuss and collaborate on effort to improve health, economic prosperity, the environment, cultural inclusion, education, and social justice from the community level to state and federal policies.
Lobbying activities: mailed out mailings in support of political campaigns
The 5 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $217,836.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $425k to $738k (+74%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2021: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $165k → $13k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 VOTE’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
INDIGENOUS VOTE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
100% 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 VOTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 91% · 2020 34% · 2021 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
INDIGENOUS VOTE draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $90k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like INDIGENOUS VOTE
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 Montana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INDIGENOUS VOTE: 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 VOTE?
- INDIGENOUS VOTE (Montana) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $595,130 to it, the largest being MAJORITY FORWARD ($150,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INDIGENOUS VOTE have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $595,130 in grants to INDIGENOUS VOTE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INDIGENOUS VOTE?
- MAJORITY FORWARD is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INDIGENOUS VOTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2019–2022), and the filings of 8 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