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NATIVE AMERICAN LIFELINES INC

NATIVE AMERICAN LIFELINES INC (Maryland) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $440,397 to it, the largest being JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ($181,980). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$4.7M
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$440k
Net assets
$3.4M
2/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Native American Lifelines Inc does

Mission

Urban indian health program

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The mission of native american lifelines is to promote health and social resiliency within urban american indian communities. Native american lifelines applies principles of trauma informed care to provide culturally centered behavioral health, dental, outreach and referral services.

    $3,599,296 spent$4,666,791 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,599,296.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($833k) Expenses 100 ($785k) Net assets 100 ($223k)2018 Revenue 105 ($874k) Expenses 115 ($906k) Net assets 86 ($190k)2019 Revenue 131 ($1.1M) Expenses 123 ($964k) Net assets 180 ($400k)2020 Revenue 195 ($1.6M) Expenses 162 ($1.3M) Net assets 340 ($756k)2021 Revenue 204 ($1.7M) Expenses 194 ($1.5M) Net assets 417 ($928k)2022 Revenue 533 ($4.4M) Expenses 230 ($1.8M) Net assets 1600 ($3.6M)2023 Revenue 130 ($1.1M) Expenses 286 ($2.2M) Net assets 1076 ($2.4M)2024 Revenue 561 ($4.7M) Expenses 470 ($3.7M) Net assets 1517 ($3.4M)
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Revenue (561)Expenses (470)Net assets (1517)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.0M to $3.7M (+257%).

$296k
$269k
$464k
$820k
$1.0M
$3.7M
$2.5M
$3.6M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 98% · 2018 97% · 2019 104% · 2020 98% · 2021 98% · 2022 99% · 2023 88% · 2024 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of NATIVE AMERICAN LIFELINES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$48k
’17
−$32k
’18
$128k
’19
$356k
’20
$172k
’21
$2.6M
’22
−$1.2M
’23
$981k
’24
1.2
months of
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

Kerry Lessard

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1114151312151413
Joined·+3+4+1+1+5+2+2
No longer listed·0332233
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $42k → $34k.

1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 LIFELINES INC’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

NATIVE AMERICAN LIFELINES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

100% 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 LIFELINES INC.

41%
largest funder
94%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 71% — 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.

Where its funders are

NATIVE AMERICAN LIFELINES INC draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 4 states in all.

MA
VA
MD
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’22
’23
Maryland out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

NATIVE AMERICAN LIFELINES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin21% · top quartile
Months of reserve1.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)28% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding NATIVE AMERICAN LIFELINES INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $16.4M on record — $16.1M federal, $218k state.

Federal$16.1M
grants $1.7Mcontracts $14.5M
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Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$16.1M
State$218k
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Top programs
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$218k

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 NATIVE AMERICAN LIFELINES INC

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 Maryland

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 3%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MD

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Questions and answers

Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN LIFELINES INC?
NATIVE AMERICAN LIFELINES INC (Maryland) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $440,397 to it, the largest being JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ($181,980). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NATIVE AMERICAN LIFELINES INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $440,397 in grants to NATIVE AMERICAN LIFELINES INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NATIVE AMERICAN LIFELINES INC?
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY is the largest funder on record, with $181,980 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NATIVE AMERICAN LIFELINES INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 5 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