Washington · Nonprofit
Mother Nation
Mother Nation (Washington) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,027,673 to it, the largest being BUILDING CHANGES ($1,009,575). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.9M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $5.0M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Mother Nation does
Mission
Mother Nation is a Native American 501(c)(3) nonprofit that offers culturally informed healing services, advocacy, mentorship and homeless prevention in Washington State. We support Native and Indigenous women during times of transition from chronic homelessness and gender-based violence to stable housing by providing counseling, connection to social services, sisterhood, community and spiritual support.Our culturally informed healing services are designed and provided by credentialed Native American Elders who apply culture to clinical practice. We use traditional Native medicines including essential oils, prayer, stories, song, ceremony, art, kinship, humor, laughter, food, and earth-based teachings. By acknowledging the past and re-learning who we are as a Native people, Indigenious Sisters who participate in our programs transform their path to a journey of natural leaderhsip and wisdom built on ancestral strength.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Yeha:wi - We deliver powerful cultural healing services that nurture, embolden, and honor a new generation of Native women leaders. We support Native and Indigenous women in their healing journeys from gender violence and homelessness by reclaiming their cultural heritage, building strong relationships of sisterhood, and participating in their community. We provide a safe space for women to share stories and connect with other women who have similar lived experiences. Our healing services are custom-designed and provided by credentialed Native American Elders who apply culture to clinical practice.Waatunwan - We support unsheltered relatives in Washington State who are at risk of homelessness and may not be eligible for tribal services. Partnering with tribes and organizations across the state, our program provides case management, cultural and spiritual support, traditional medicine, connection to mental health resources, food, community, and financial assistance for rent, utilities, and moving costs. Emergency support services are also available for unsheltered relatives.
$1,775,313 spentof which $1,100,291 as grants56% of program spendingCultural Services - We provide workshops on a variety of cultural topics, a Circle of Life series focused on healing from trauma, and Tribal Training. Services are delivered onsite by credentialed Elders and Staff with the goal to enhance women's overall health, wellness, and confidence.
$707,197 spent$2,790 earned by the program22% of program spendingTraining and Mentorship - We offer training to front-line staff, advocates and Tribal Leadership in areas of grief and loss, historical trauma, sexual abuse and the impacts of violence against women on survivors, family and community.
$684,505 spent22% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,167,015.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $1.2M to $2.1M (+78%).
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: 2020 54% · 2021 89% · 2022 57% · 2023 65% · 2024 70% · 2025 68%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Mother Nation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Henry M Cagey
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 13 funders, grant income rose $5k → $1.4M.
11 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 Mother Nation’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
Mother Nation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
79% 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 Mother Nation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 52% · 2020 29% · 2021 51% · 2022 21% · 2023 43% — 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
30% of Mother Nation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
63% of Mother Nation's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
Mother Nation has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Mother Nation
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Mother Nation: 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 Mother Nation?
- Mother Nation (Washington) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,027,673 to it, the largest being BUILDING CHANGES ($1,009,575). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Mother Nation have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $5,027,673 in grants to Mother Nation, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Mother Nation?
- BUILDING CHANGES is the largest funder on record, with $1,009,575 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Mother Nation 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 30 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