Washington · Nonprofit
Na'ah Illahee Fund
Na'ah Illahee Fund (Washington) receives grants from 81 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,892,422 to it, the largest being SEATTLE FOUNDATION ($4,572,489). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.6M
- Funders on record
- 81
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $3.9M
What Na'ah Illahee Fund does
Mission
Naah Illahee Fund is an Indigenous-led organization rooted in the Northwest region of Turtle Island. Our mission is to catalyze the ongoing regeneration of Indigenous communities through participatory grantmaking, capacity building, and cultural revitalization that nurtures deep, reciprocal relationships with one another and Mother Earth.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
GRANTMAKING - We support Indigenous-led projects that promote community healing advance environmental justice and transfer traditional knowledge to future generations. We are committed to uplifting the Indigenous Lifeways that our ancestors have practiced since time immemorial.
$1,124,969 spentof which $891,450 as grants$61,000 earned by the program39% of program spendingFISCAL SPONSORSHIP - We provide financial oversight and guidance to emerging native groups leading important projects in Native communities. We provide resources and support in key areas critical to program success including finance management program development grant writing and systems development.
$926,526 spentof which $388,030 as grants$905,306 earned by the program32% of program spendingINDIGENOUS LEADERSHIP - We know that innovative solutions lie in the brilliance of our people and we work to lift up our community leaders to draw upon deep resilience and to realize their dreams. Education and skill sharing strengths and asset mapping strategic planning networking and resourcing are the components of successful community building. Naah Illahee Fund serves as a bridge builder facilitator and resource partner as we work to catalyze a movement toward positive futures. Our scope of impact includes urban rural island and reservation-based Indigenous communities from the Arctic to the Rockies in what is now known as Alaska British Columbia Washington Oregon Idaho Montana and Wyoming.
$726,371 spentof which $156,500 as grants$541,973 earned by the program25% of program spendingELIP TILIKUM - In 2021 the Naah Illahee Fund introduced the Elip Tilikum First Peoples Land Conservancy program marking the inception of the first Native land conservancy in the Pacific Northwest. Elip Tilikum aims to address centuries of dislocation displacement and forced separation from Mother Earth by reuniting Native land to Native hands. Through this initiative Elip Tilikum works to restore preserve and protect the natural habitats and sacred traditional sites across rural and urban landscapes.
$88,871 spent$21,000 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,866,737.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $2.4M to $4.4M (+80%).
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: 2018 37% · 2019 33% · 2020 14% · 2021 10% · 2022 9% · 2023 19% · 2024 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of Na'ah Illahee Fund’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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
Susan Balbas
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $139k → $2.2M.
20 of 81 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 Na'ah Illahee Fund’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 81 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
Na'ah Illahee Fund has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% 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 Na'ah Illahee Fund.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 26% · 2019 61% · 2020 68% · 2021 31% · 2022 32% · 2023 23% — 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 Na'ah Illahee Fund's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
51% of Na'ah Illahee Fund's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $6.8M that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
Na'ah Illahee Fund runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,607 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,607 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Na'ah Illahee Fund
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
47%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Na'ah Illahee Fund?
- Na'ah Illahee Fund (Washington) receives grants from 81 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,892,422 to it, the largest being SEATTLE FOUNDATION ($4,572,489). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Na'ah Illahee Fund have?
- IRS filings report 81 organizations giving $13,892,422 in grants to Na'ah Illahee Fund, 45 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Na'ah Illahee Fund?
- SEATTLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,572,489 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Na'ah Illahee Fund 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 81 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