Arizona · Nonprofit
NATIVE AMERICAN MINISTRIES INC
NATIVE AMERICAN MINISTRIES INC (Arizona) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $70,252 to it, the largest being THE HELSTROM FOUNDATION ($24,606). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $806k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $70k
- Net assets
- $996k
What Native American Ministries Inc does
Mission
The mission of Native American Christian Academy is to provide an educational environment that brings the students to use the best of their ability. Moral and ethical development, life skills, social interaction are all addressed in context of Christian education to prepare the student for the current business community. Field trips, sports and other activities provide opportunities for exposure to the world beyond their Northern Arizona homeland
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Building and school housed over 32 students and over 20 staff for boarding school functions. Expenses include utilities and building and equipment repairs
$231,475 spent$11,800 earned by the program38% of program spendingFacility use included revenue for space for communications tower for third party and also miscellaneous room and board for visitors. Expenses included food for visitors.
$24,454 spent$46,583 earned by the program4% of program spendingEducational support had accomplishments of over 30 students over the course of the school year, with 2 graduating high school seniors. Revenue included sponsorship from individuals and scholarships from state tax credit programs. Expenses included salaries, curriculum, supplies for academic school use.
$352,999 spent$146,268 earned by the program58% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $608,928.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $452k to $925k (+105%).
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: 2021 5% · 2022 2% · 2023 5% · 2024 4% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
66% of NATIVE AMERICAN MINISTRIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
Joshua Herndon
Executive Director. Staff/Ex Officio
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $8k → $845.
1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 MINISTRIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 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 MINISTRIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
63% 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 MINISTRIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 80% · 2021 93% · 2022 90% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
68% of NATIVE AMERICAN MINISTRIES INC's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4k 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.
Against its field
NATIVE AMERICAN MINISTRIES INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like NATIVE AMERICAN MINISTRIES 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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIVE AMERICAN MINISTRIES INC: 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 MINISTRIES INC?
- NATIVE AMERICAN MINISTRIES INC (Arizona) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $70,252 to it, the largest being THE HELSTROM FOUNDATION ($24,606). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIVE AMERICAN MINISTRIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $70,252 in grants to NATIVE AMERICAN MINISTRIES INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIVE AMERICAN MINISTRIES INC?
- THE HELSTROM FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $24,606 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIVE AMERICAN MINISTRIES INC 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 8 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