New Mexico · Nonprofit
NACA-INSPIRED SCHOOLS NETWORK
NACA-INSPIRED SCHOOLS NETWORK (New Mexico) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,456,270 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($4,000,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.8M
- Funders on record
- 56
- Grants received
- $23M
- Net assets
- $4.9M
What Naca-Inspired Schools Network does
Mission
Nisn's mission is to transform indigenous education by engaging communities, building networked schools of academic excellence and cultural relevance, and serving indigenous students from early learning to adulthood so that they are secure in their identity, healthy, and holistically prepared as lifelong learners and leaders in their communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To support community centered charter school growth, and development of culturally relevant education for indigenous students in the u.s. To train and support the development of educators in community centered charter schools which focus on the education of indigenous students in the us.
$7,220,736 spentof which $974,112 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,220,736.
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 2024 to 2025, from $11M to $6.3M (−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 26% · 2020 53% · 2021 56% · 2022 37% · 2023 34% · 2024 39% · 2025 59%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of NACA-INSPIRED SCHOOLS NETWORK’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. 4 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
Kristin Ksiazek
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $1.3M → $4.0M.
13 of 56 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $546k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Naca-Inspired Schools Network). These are real filings, and they are not money NACA-INSPIRED SCHOOLS NETWORK raised.
From the IRS filings of NACA-INSPIRED SCHOOLS NETWORK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 56 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
NACA-INSPIRED SCHOOLS NETWORK has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
45% 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 NACA-INSPIRED SCHOOLS NETWORK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 45% · 2019 38% · 2020 20% · 2021 21% · 2022 16% · 2023 42% — 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
45% of NACA-INSPIRED SCHOOLS NETWORK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
NACA-INSPIRED SCHOOLS NETWORK draws 76% of its grant income from funders outside New Mexico, across 17 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
NACA-INSPIRED SCHOOLS NETWORK has grown faster than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding NACA-INSPIRED SCHOOLS NETWORK receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $14.9M on record.
- Department of Education$13.1M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$960k
- Department of Agriculture$850k
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 NACA-INSPIRED SCHOOLS NETWORK
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 New Mexico
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 NACA-INSPIRED SCHOOLS NETWORK: 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 NACA-INSPIRED SCHOOLS NETWORK?
- NACA-INSPIRED SCHOOLS NETWORK (New Mexico) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,456,270 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($4,000,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NACA-INSPIRED SCHOOLS NETWORK have?
- IRS filings report 56 organizations giving $23,456,270 in grants to NACA-INSPIRED SCHOOLS NETWORK, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NACA-INSPIRED SCHOOLS NETWORK?
- TIDES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NACA-INSPIRED SCHOOLS NETWORK find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Mexico. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 56 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