Arizona · Nonprofit
Native American food sovereignty alliance dba NAFSA
Native American food sovereignty alliance dba NAFSA (Arizona) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,827,828 to it, the largest being Tides Foundation ($2,300,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. Native American food sovereignty alliance dba NAFSA administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
Native American food sovereignty alliance dba NAFSA administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programNative American food sovereignty alliance dba NAFSA runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$454k
Recipients
12
Contributions on record
$5.8M
Donors on record
43
Payments out are 0.08x the contributions on record, so the balance accumulates rather than passing straight through.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- First Nations Development Instituteshared fundersportfolio match
- Women Donors Networkshared funders
- Indian Land Tenure Foundationportfolio match
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.
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 28% · 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 12 funders, grant income rose $75k → $804k.
16 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 food sovereignty alliance dba NAFSA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 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.
Where its funders are
66% of Native American food sovereignty alliance dba NAFSA'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 $2.0M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Arizona, across 12 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 43 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- First Nations Development Instituteshared fundersportfolio matchCO · backs 66 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Women Donors Networkshared fundersCA · backs 70 organizations that share your funders
- Indian Land Tenure Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Potlatch Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Na'ah Illahee Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Native American Agriculture Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mercy for Animals Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Libra Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 69 organizations that share your funders
- Solidaire Network Incshared fundersCA · backs 77 organizations that share your funders
- Groundswell Fundshared fundersCA · backs 76 organizations that share your funders
- The Schmidt Family Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 160 organizations that share your funders
- Freedom Together Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 116 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding Native American food sovereignty alliance dba NAFSA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $249k on record.
- Department of the Interior$209k
- Department of Agriculture$40k
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
57% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
51%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Native American food sovereignty alliance dba NAFSA: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Native American food sovereignty alliance dba NAFSA?
- Native American food sovereignty alliance dba NAFSA (Arizona) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,827,828 to it, the largest being Tides Foundation ($2,300,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. Native American food sovereignty alliance dba NAFSA administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does Native American food sovereignty alliance dba NAFSA have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $5,827,828 in grants to Native American food sovereignty alliance dba NAFSA, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Native American food sovereignty alliance dba NAFSA?
- Tides Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $2,300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Native American food sovereignty alliance dba NAFSA 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.
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 43funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing