Arizona · Nonprofit
NATIONAL CENTER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT
NATIONAL CENTER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT (Arizona) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $398,704 to it, the largest being Wend II Inc ($105,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.0M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $399k
- Net assets
- $3.3M
What National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development does
Mission
The National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development (ncaied) assists american indian tribes and their enterprises with business and economic development. Ncaied works to develop and expand the american indian private sector which employs indian labor, increases the number of viable tribal and individual indian businesses, and positively impacts and involves reservation commuities by estblishing business relationships between indian enterprises and private industry. Ncaied fulfills its mission by providing the following services, a) supply management and technical assistance to tribal and individually owned indian businesses nationwide; b) serves as a training resource center for native entrepreneurs; c) produce conferences and trade fairs that advance economic development across indian country; d) advocate for american indian and alaskan native business development; and e) expand and create domestic and global economic development.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
American indian procurement technical center is operated through a cooperative agreement with the u.s. Department of defense. Ncaied provides professional business consulting services and technical assistance to native american owned businesses regarding marketing and selling to federal, state, local and tribal governments and prime contractors. Assistance extends to all native american businesses (american indian, alaska native corporations and native hawaiians) and includes tribes and individual businesses both on and off the reservations. Area of coverage is bureau of indian affairs (bia) regions: 50% eastern region, 100% navajo and southwest regions. Other states surrounding the bia areas are served on a voluntary basis; any native american business can contact the main office for further information about becoming a client. Services are free of charge.
$1,450,580 spent$42,982 earned by the program23% of program spendingReservation economic summit (res) conventions are american indian economic and business development gatherings held nationally and regionally. This event brings together american indians and indigenous entrepreneurs, tribal economic and business development decision-makers, tribal entities, tribal leaders, govt agencies and key corporate executives, buyers, suppliers and contractors. Res is the largest and longest running national american indian business event in the nation.
$2,947,324 spent$5,089,674 earned by the program46% of program spendingMinority business resource development (mbda) - under the department of commerce, the mbda business center program addresses four identified core needs for american indian, alaska native, and native hawaiian businesses including training, federal program coaching, access to capital, and fostering, developing and/or implementing entrepreneurial and economic development. Key activities will include four key components that will help to foster, promote, and develop ai/an/nh small businesses. Components include: 1. Native edge institutes (nei); 2. One-on-one business counseling/coaching; 3. Access to native edge platform; 4. Access to capital. In addition, the export center also provided one-on-one counseling services on exporting and international trade by providing marketing assistance services, bid match services, and facilitated introductions and networking opportunities at various outreach events. Ncaied hosted online webinar training on exporting topics and doing business in other countries. Finally, the organization assisted clients with information on trade policies and regulations along with its resource partners, the international trade administration, u.s. Commercial…
$683,179 spent11% of program spendingNcaied entered into a cooperative agreement with the office of indian economic development under the native act of 2016 to enhance and integrate native american tourism, empower native communities, and expand heritage and cultural tourism opportunities nationwide. The program serves five regions, northwest, southwest, eastern, alaska, and hawaii, to ensure broad national impact. The program focuses on three core areas: 1. Conducting needs assessments through consultation with tribes and native hawaiian organizations in each region to identify tourism development priorities and technical assistance needs. 2. Providing tailored technical assistance through multiple levels of support, including personalized needs assessments, light assistance through online or published self-help resources, moderate assistance through facilitated discussions and specialized research, and intensive support for complex, long-term projects requiring frequent collaboration and expert consultation. And 3. Strengthening coordination between federal agencies and native organizations through regular meetings, communication platforms, and collaborative initiatives to support sustainable and culturally…
$1,332,350 spent$41,307 earned by the program21% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,413,433.
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 $4.8M to $2.9M (−39%).
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: 2017 21% · 2018 22% · 2019 40% · 2020 33% · 2021 73% · 2022 26% · 2023 31% · 2024 26% · 2025 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
41% of NATIONAL CENTER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Chris James
CEO/president
Board chair
Derrick Watchman
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $11k → $70k.
3 of 11 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 NATIONAL CENTER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT’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
NATIONAL CENTER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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
59% 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 NATIONAL CENTER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 31% · 2022 53% · 2023 36% — 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
25% of NATIONAL CENTER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
NATIONAL CENTER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
NATIONAL CENTER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding NATIONAL CENTER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $17.7M on record.
- Department of Defense$8.7M
- Department of Commerce$4.5M
- Small Business Administration$1.9M
- Department of the Interior$1.5M
- Department of Health and Human Services$795k
- Department of the Treasury$150k
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 NATIONAL CENTER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT
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 Arizona
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
88%
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 NATIONAL CENTER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT: 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 NATIONAL CENTER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT?
- NATIONAL CENTER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT (Arizona) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $398,704 to it, the largest being Wend II Inc ($105,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL CENTER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $398,704 in grants to NATIONAL CENTER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL CENTER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT?
- Wend II Inc is the largest funder on record, with $105,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL CENTER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 11 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