Washington · Nonprofit
NATIVE ACTION NETWORK
NATIVE ACTION NETWORK (Washington) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,533,337 to it, the largest being INATAI FOUNDATION ($883,404). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $3.5M
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What Native Action Network does
Mission
Native Action Network (nan) is a seattle/king county based 501(c)(3) native-led non-profit organization that has been serving the native community for over 20 years. Nan is organized to promote native women's full representation, participation, and leadership in local, state, tribal, and national affairs. Nan has mobilized generations of native leaders dedicated to serving their communities. By uplifting native women's legacies and positive impacts of native-led initiatives, we affirm native identities and futures, while advancing justice through community organization. Our annual programming efforts include a multi-day conference, a year-round leadership program, and other initiatives to uplift, empower, and educate native women.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Native Action Network continued its successful programming and services through several activities, which include: native women's leadership forum & honoring luncheon, in which native women came together to share their knowledge, leadership, challenges, and stories of success. The workshops held in conjunction were presented by several professional native women covering areas of interest and contemporary issues and training. Young native women's academy, in which we host a two-day intensive training for young contemporary native women and cover hot topics such as confidence, communications, and health. Legacy of leadership is a 10-month leadership cohort training for native women. It is centered around the legacy of leadership of the american indian women's service league, the inspiration of Native Action Network. Provided a comprehensive professional non-profit training and development series tailored specifically for native nonprofit leaders and team members; hosted a youth empowerment summit; hosted a one-year advocacy boot camp for native women to support leadership training, community empowerment, and training to serve on boards and commissions; hosted our 20th annual native…
$781,133 spent$36,422 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $781,133.
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 2024 to 2025, from $2.3M to $3.1M (+30%).
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 42% · 2021 38% · 2022 2% · 2023 11% · 2024 25% · 2025 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of NATIVE ACTION NETWORK’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Elizabeth Rideau
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 11 funders, grant income rose $20k → $508k.
13 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 NATIVE ACTION NETWORK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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
NATIVE ACTION NETWORK has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
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 NATIVE ACTION NETWORK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 68% · 2019 51% · 2020 27% · 2021 30% · 2022 45% · 2023 33% — 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
20% of NATIVE ACTION NETWORK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
89% of NATIVE ACTION NETWORK's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
NATIVE ACTION NETWORK runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like NATIVE ACTION 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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NATIVE ACTION NETWORK?
- NATIVE ACTION NETWORK (Washington) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,533,337 to it, the largest being INATAI FOUNDATION ($883,404). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIVE ACTION NETWORK have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $3,533,337 in grants to NATIVE ACTION NETWORK, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIVE ACTION NETWORK?
- INATAI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $883,404 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIVE ACTION NETWORK 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 31 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