South Dakota · Nonprofit
LNI
LNI (South Dakota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $188,200 to it, the largest being DAKOTA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($100,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $934k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $188k
- Net assets
- $452k
What Lni does
Mission
To educate youth on native american culture and facilitate annual events which showcase the talents of native american and non-native american students and allow them an avenue to come together as a community with other schools.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The organization showcases native american and non-native american youth at a competitive level, sharing the native american culture with attendees and each other. Events occur throughout the year, including basketball, volleyball, wrestling, track, cross country, and golf athletic competitions. Concurrent with the athletic competitions, the organization also hosts archery, art show, hand games, knowledge bowl, chess, poetry slam, business plan, and lakota language bowl competitions. In the spring, Lni hosts a student council conference with educational and community opportunities. These events help keep the culture and traditions alive in youth today. Youth are drawn together through competition and the love of culture and sports. They take pride in themselves, their schools, their culture, and their communities. Participants are from multiple states and tribes in elementary through high school grades. During 2024, 59 teams from 329 schools participated, with an estimated 2,750 - 3,250 participants.
$671,019 spentof which $7,500 as grants$534,652 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $671,019.
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 2023 to 2024, from $290k to $650k (+124%).
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: 2021 15% · 2022 4% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
42% of LNI’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% 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.
Board chair
Chuck Wilson
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $15k → $26k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 LNI’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
LNI leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
47% 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 LNI.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 66% · 2020 51% · 2021 61% · 2022 46% · 2023 78% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of LNI's grant income comes from South Dakota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k 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.
Against its field
LNI has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like LNI
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 South Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LNI: 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 LNI?
- LNI (South Dakota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $188,200 to it, the largest being DAKOTA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($100,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LNI have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $188,200 in grants to LNI, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LNI?
- DAKOTA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LNI find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Dakota. 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 5 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