Washington · Nonprofit
INDIGIGENIUS
INDIGIGENIUS (Washington) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $401,602 to it, the largest being NATIVES IN TECH INC ($261,602). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $402k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Indigigenius does
Mission
To increase the number of Indigenous Computer Science students and instructors in the fields of Data Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and beyond by providing access to learning opportunities, tools, resources, mentorship, and support. IndigiGenius is an Indigenous-led, community focused nonprofit developing a sustainable and scalable system of creating leaders and changemakers in the fields of Computer Science. Our organizational goal of reaching population parity with CS PhD graduate rates by graduating thirty-five Indigenous CS PhD students per year. To accomplish this goal, IndigiGenius developed a series of programs that educate students and teachers to create earlier CS opportunities at the high school level.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
The T3PD Program offers AI Education to Indigenous communities who have been historically underserved in this area by recruiting, training, and supporting future instructors to implement an IndigiGenius AI Code Camp in their home communities. T3PD is nine weeks of learning and activities for teachers to gain the technical and pedagogical skills necessary to be AI Code Camp instructors. Skills include basic knowledge and ability to work and develop using GitHub, Docker, Jupyter notebooks, Python, PyTorch, and Unity mobile application development.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Lakota AI Code Camp Program aims to inspire students to pursue pathways into higher education and careers in advanced technology fields. LAICC is a three-week long summer program for high school students where they gain hands-on experience developing personalized mobile apps using industry standard software engineering practices, computer science, deep learning, and extended reality incorporating Indigenous knowledge and methods. By inspiring the students to pursue their future in advanced technology and connecting them with professional networks, the LAICC fulfills the Strategic Focus Areas of Higher Education and Career Readiness while also laying the foundations for all three aspects of Workforce Development: Early Career Exposure, Diverse Pathways to Employment, and Bridging Transitions between Higher Education and Careers. Laying the foundations for Academic Success the LAICC provides future Indigenous AI researchers, practitioners, and professionals with a community of Indigenous peers, mentors, and technical experts to support and uplift them as they continue learning and developing their programming and AI skills after the camp.
$248,432 spent24% of program spendingIndigenous in AI/ML's vision is to build an international community of Native, Aboriginal, and First Nations who will collectively transform their home communities with advanced technology. By elevating the voices of Indigenous ML researchers we will inspire future impactful work and break stereotypes. Additionally, this group will strive to educate the broader NeurIPS on contemporary indigenous issues relevant to information technology and practices.
$9,395 spent1% of program spendingTeach the Teacher Professional Development (T3PD) offers AI Education to Indigenous communities, who have historically been underserved, by recruiting, training, and supporting future instructors to implement an AI Code Camp in their home community.
$558,487 spent54% of program spendingThe FLAIR initiative serves Indigenous communities in their efforts to revitalize their language and culture through technology. We are building the foundations for Indigenous Voice AI in systems explicitly designed to respect data sovereignty and linguistic self-determination. Our foundational automatic speech recognition (ASR) research aims to develop a method for the rapid creation of custom models for endangered languages. These models can be used for language learning, audio transcription, voice-controlled technology and much more. We envision a world in which Indigenous communities have full self-determination and sovereignty over their language and culture. We imagine technology serving the revitalization and thriving of languages as a tool to connect community members, to celebrate their identity, and to transmit their culture and knowledge on the community's own terms.
$212,583 spent21% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,028,897.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $10k to $1.2M (+11649%).
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.
100% of INDIGIGENIUS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Andrea Delgado-Olson
Executive Director
Board chair
Michael Running Wolf
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 6 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 INDIGIGENIUS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 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
INDIGIGENIUS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 INDIGIGENIUS.
“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
INDIGIGENIUS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $60k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
INDIGIGENIUS's revenue grew 11300% between 2022 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INDIGIGENIUS: 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 INDIGIGENIUS?
- INDIGIGENIUS (Washington) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $401,602 to it, the largest being NATIVES IN TECH INC ($261,602). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INDIGIGENIUS have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $401,602 in grants to INDIGIGENIUS.
- Who is the largest funder of INDIGIGENIUS?
- NATIVES IN TECH INC is the largest funder on record, with $261,602 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INDIGIGENIUS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 6 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