Minnesota · Nonprofit
Native American Community Development Institute
Native American Community Development Institute (Minnesota) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,679,568 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($1,325,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $7.7M
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Native American Community Development Institute does
Mission
The Native American Community Development Institute (NACDI) is an American Indian community development intermediary - the first of its kind in the region - created by and for American Indians. NACDI is committed to transforming the American Indian community to effectively respond to 21st century opportunities. NACDI, working from the premise that deficit and poverty-based strategies must be replaced with comprehensive asset-centered strategies, focuses on promoting innovative ideas and cross-sector partnerships that embrace technology, entrepreneurship, and community development. Our mission is to partner with American Indian communities to build and execute 21st century community development strategies.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
NACDI's Four Sisters Food Sovereignty programs are connecting neighborhood residents by rebuilding our relationship with the living world. Our work is guided by the community and the engagement in the practices that sustain us physically and culturally. We break the cycles of trauma and social isolation set into motion by the disruption of our traditional ways by rebuilding Indigenous food knowledge and pursuing equitable food systems. Our goal with Four Sisters is to restore health and well-being in the Urban Indian and Phillips communities by recovering knowledge and access to Indigenous food, medicine, and traditions. The Four Sisters programs are creating a more inclusive, welcoming, and accessible ecosystem in this racially and culturally diverse neighborhood. This project will greatly benefit the surrounding neighborhood by bringing together community members, improving healthy food access, and celebrating Indigenous heritage and culture. Four Sisters Urban Farm, through skills training and community gatherings, will seed opportunities to grow fresh and healthy food and heal land, bodies, and spirits.
$490,186 spentof which $4,641 as grants$4,787 earned by the program30% of program spendingAll My Relations Arts (AMRA) continues to bring the highest quality of contemporary Native artists working today to our gallery. Exploring topics of sovereignty, family systems, and the living world, AMRA artists challenge the notion of what it means to be Indigenous in the modern world. AMRA began its second cohort of the Native Authors Program, a program designed to expand the careers and representation of Native writers while supporting their growth in practice. Under the program facilitator and mentorship of Art Coulson (Cherokee), authors will engage in the development of their craft. We also began the second cohort of We Are Still Here, a multiyear collaborative partnership between NACDI and Hennepin Theatre Trust, which brings large-scale, high-profile public artworks to the Hennepin Theatre District and the American Indian Culture Corridor. Paired with mural artist, mentor Thomasina TopBear, this cohort is learning the techniques of mural creation to expand their mediums to a highly visible public art environment.
$519,417 spentof which $61,496 as grants$51,313 earned by the program32% of program spendingMake Voting A Tradition (MVAT) is a culturally specific, year-round, multi-generational approach to increase voter turnout and civic engagement now in its eighth year of operation. The fundamental principle of MVAT is that Native Americans are more likely to become more politically active when engaged by peers. By utilizing MVAT's statewide and national profile, the project continues to establish and nurture relationships that will strengthen the voices of individuals to create access and influence in elections. Now, in partnership with Minnesota Voice, MVAT is spearheading a first of its kind Statewide Native Table focusing on civic engagement and voter mobilization.The goal of the Native Table is to create a network of Indigenous people and organizations throughout the state including rural and Tribal Nations to build collective civic engagement power for Native people of Minnesota.
$600,277 spentof which $189,358 as grants37% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,609,880.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.7M to $2.6M (+51%).
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 37% · 2018 3% · 2020 7% · 2021 22% · 2024 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of Native American Community Development Institute’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. 3 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
Robert Lilligren
President/CEO
Board chair
Sam Olbekson
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $66k → $1.3M.
9 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 American Community Development Institute’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 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 American Community Development Institute 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
41% 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 American Community Development Institute.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 56% · 2019 61% · 2020 42% · 2021 21% · 2022 29% · 2023 20% — 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
53% of Native American Community Development Institute's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
Native American Community Development Institute draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 American Community Development Institute is better cushioned than half of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Native American Community Development Institute
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- American Indian Holding Company · partnership
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Native American Community Development Institute: 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 Native American Community Development Institute?
- Native American Community Development Institute (Minnesota) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,679,568 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($1,325,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Native American Community Development Institute have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $7,679,568 in grants to Native American Community Development Institute, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Native American Community Development Institute?
- The McKnight Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,325,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Native American Community Development Institute find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 46 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