Minnesota · Nonprofit
MINNESOTA INDIAN WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER
MINNESOTA INDIAN WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER (Minnesota) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,245,894 to it, the largest being NOVO FOUNDATION ($1,000,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 61
- Grants received
- $5.2M
- Net assets
- $533k
What Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center does
Mission
To empower american indian women and families to exercise their cultural values and integrity, and to achieve sustainable life ways, while advocating for justice and equity.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Traditional behavioral health services - culturally responsive, trauma informed counseling services to children, adolescents, and adults. Traditional health practitioners balance contemporary evidence-based therapy models with native american values, cultural practices, and traditional methodologies for enhancing resilience and mind-body- socialspiritual health.
$440,889 spentof which $14,404 as grants$429,403 earned by the program17% of program spendingCommunity engagement & impact - programs designed to keep families safely together, and/or to reunite children with their families through life skills parenting, family group conferencing, family spirit home visiting, and infant mortality/unintended violence & injury prevention supports. The organization is also a provider of indian child welfare act (icwa) court advocacy and foster parent/family caregiver services, and acts as a liaison with the tribal and county providers to ensure quality care for children in the child protection system.
$831,706 spentof which $143,693 as grants33% of program spendingWawokiye - sexual exploitation and anti-trafficking program including street outreach, crop-in crisis counseling and resource referral, culturally grounded violence prevention/intervention/healing supports, and sexual assault advocacy for youth and adults who have experienced sexual violence and/or commercial sexual exploitation. Also includes healing journey, which provides case management and peer-led healing support for adult american indian women living with complex trauma and chronic substance use challenges.
$975,420 spentof which $77,240 as grants38% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$304,977 spentof which $8,999 as grants12% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,552,992.
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 2023 to 2024, from $2.5M to $1.4M (−43%).
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 29% · 2020 75% · 2021 72% · 2022 70% · 2023 64% · 2024 59%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Ruth Buffalo
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $179k → $630k.
17 of 61 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 MINNESOTA INDIAN WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 61 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
MINNESOTA INDIAN WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% 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
54% 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 MINNESOTA INDIAN WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 50% · 2019 23% · 2020 30% · 2021 28% · 2022 21% · 2023 32% — 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
41% of MINNESOTA INDIAN WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
64% of MINNESOTA INDIAN WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
Government funding MINNESOTA INDIAN WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.8M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.0M
- Department of Justice$485k
- Department of Health and Human Services$350k
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 MINNESOTA INDIAN WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER
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
99%
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 MINNESOTA INDIAN WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: 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 MINNESOTA INDIAN WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER?
- MINNESOTA INDIAN WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER (Minnesota) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,245,894 to it, the largest being NOVO FOUNDATION ($1,000,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MINNESOTA INDIAN WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 61 organizations giving $5,245,894 in grants to MINNESOTA INDIAN WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MINNESOTA INDIAN WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER?
- NOVO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MINNESOTA INDIAN WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER 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 61 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