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NATIVE BIODATA CONSORTIUM

NATIVE BIODATA CONSORTIUM (South Dakota) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,228,528 to it, the largest being JOHN D AND CATHERINE T MACARTHUR FOUNDATION ($2,000,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2023
$599k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$3.2M
Net assets
$859k
2/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 83%
01What it does

What Native Biodata Consortium does

Mission

The Native BioData Consortium NBDC brings together Indigenous scholars scientists and experts in bioethics data science policy law and education to improve and protect the health welfare and culture of Indigenous peoples. Our mission is to strengthen sovereignty and empower tribes through Native-led education research and stewardship of Indigenous data.

As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.

Programs

On its FY2023 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.

IDEAS Conference. Establish a conference for a two day symposium called IDEAS to welcome indigenous tribal leaders academics and entrepreneurs to discuss the future application of data science in growing Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and its effect on health data and workforce development for indigenous peoples. Wastewater surveillance we monitor the wastewater on the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Reservation. BRIDGE 2AI. Collect and condition data to prepare for AI. Documentary Community Outreach. Documentary about Indigenous Data and Research sovereignty around the world. HuBMAP. Look at jejunum cells for things like colon cancer. Community Outreach and Education. Present research and educational talks to the CRST community and support the the CRST Community Advisory Board. We Protect The People - Create culturally relevant public health messaging and translate it into the Lakota language

Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).

  1. Monitoring COVID 19. Building Capacity with Northern Plains Tribes and the Future of Pandemics. The Native BioData Consortium is partnering with its research partners to develop itself to be a Infectious disease testing center immunological research hub and data storage and security facility to support the northern plains tribal public health monitoring and response efforts.

    $410,131 spent
    32% of program spending
  2. Two one-week 4-6 days Indigenous data science education workshops held each summer to introduce data science and informatics skills to undergraduate and graduate students. We offer an Indigenous-centered curriculum that is led by a community of Indigenous data scientists and guest faculty. All of our workshop activities will center Indigenous data sovereignty and data ethics while also providing students valuable insight into the emerging data and technology career fields. Two workshops were held in Minnesota and Washington. Also contributing educational materials services and sponsoring Summer Internship for Indigenous peoples in Genomics SING.

    $219,913 spent
    17% of program spending
  3. Building a web based dynamic consent portal to build trust among tribal participants in research.

    $134,503 spent
    10% of program spending
  4. Community Outreach and Education. We will educate the CRST membership of who we are and what we do. Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe]The Community Advisory Board is a long-term group that will assist in guiding research aim and dissemination of research findings to ensure project goals are carried out per Indigenous community values beliefs and meet all necessary ethical and legal requirements

    $129,052 spent
    10% of program spending
  5. Parter with REDE4BlackLives Research Evaluation Data Ethics for Black People

    $78,500 spent
    6% of program spending
  6. Monitor sewer effluents for bacteria parasites viruses and fungi with new and efficient methods which will be paired to digitized mapping for Tribal planning and mitigation strategies.

    $75,651 spent$60,617 earned by the program
    6% of program spending
  7. IDEAS Conference. Establish a conference for a two day symposium called IDEAS to welcome indigenous tribal leaders academics and entrepreneurs to discuss the future application of data science in growing Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and its effect on health data and workforce development for indigenous peoples.

    $75,478 spent
    6% of program spending
  8. Possible 6 episode documentary about Indigenous Data and Research sovereignty around the world with NBDC as its beginning and inspiration

    $70,019 spent
    5% of program spending
  9. HuBMAP. Looking at the small bowel and colon that play wide-ranging roles in maintaining normal physiologies of metabolism immunity and even neural function. We applied the deep expertise of our team to obtain high-quality biospecimens characterize tissues using cutting-edge omics and multiparametric imaging techniques and perform integrative analyses to understand the biomolecular profiles in the context of spatial tissue structure. We have scaled these data-generation and analysis pipelines for production-scale interrogation of the intestinal wall. We will continue these efforts to build three-dimensional multi-modal snRNA snATAC CODEX multiplex FISH spatial maps that will give the greater scientific community insights into the molecular underpinnings of normal bowel function.

    $54,488 spent
    4% of program spending
  10. BRIDGE 2AI. Collect and condition data to prepare for AI. Create systems of ethics law and policy to protect data. Record and build teaming methods for large inter-organizational data collection projects. Create IT tools for data collection analysis and dissemination.

    $26,772 spent
    2% of program spending
  11. Unspeicichiya na Winweya Learn and Prepare: We Protect The People - Create culturally relevant public health messaging and translate it into the Lakota language

    $16,500 spent$16,500 earned by the program
    1% of program spending
  12. This is a study of rheumatoid arthritis from samples collected from Cheyenne River Sioux people since 2012. This includes the storage and analysis of these samples. This is a study of rheumatoid arthritis from samples collected from Cheyenne River Sioux people since 2012. This includes the storage and analysis of these samples.

    $4,861 spent
    0% of program spending

The 12 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,295,868.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($55k) Expenses 100 ($18k) Net assets 100 ($41k)2021 Revenue 5921 ($3.3M) Expenses 2831 ($499k) Net assets 6977 ($2.8M)2022 Revenue 1830 ($1.0M) Expenses 10664 ($1.9M) Net assets 4848 ($2.0M)2023 Revenue 1086 ($599k) Expenses 9758 ($1.7M) Net assets 2105 ($859k)
2020202120222023
Revenue (1086)Expenses (9758)Net assets (2105)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 2020 to 2021, from $41k to $2.9M (+6946%).

$41k
$2.9M
$2.1M
$982k
2020202120222023
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

87% of NATIVE BIODATA CONSORTIUM’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,618 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$38k
’20
$2.8M
’21
−$869k
’22
−$1.1M
’23
2.7
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.

202120222023
Listed12611
Joined·+0+5
No longer listed·60
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $2.7M → $490k.

2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 BIODATA CONSORTIUM’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 BIODATA CONSORTIUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

62%
largest funder
93%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 74% · 2022 100% · 2023 82% — growing more concentrated.

“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 BIODATA CONSORTIUM draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside South Dakota, across 5 states in all.

WA
IL
NY
MA
MD

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

’21
’22
’23
South Dakota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $200k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

NATIVE BIODATA CONSORTIUM has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,179 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−187% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)121% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,179 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023

Government funding NATIVE BIODATA CONSORTIUM receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $300k on record.

Federal$300k
grants $300kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Institute of Museum and Library Services$300k

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 BIODATA CONSORTIUM

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 22%Fundraising 2%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

SD

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Questions and answers

Who funds NATIVE BIODATA CONSORTIUM?
NATIVE BIODATA CONSORTIUM (South Dakota) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,228,528 to it, the largest being JOHN D AND CATHERINE T MACARTHUR FOUNDATION ($2,000,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NATIVE BIODATA CONSORTIUM have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $3,228,528 in grants to NATIVE BIODATA CONSORTIUM, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NATIVE BIODATA CONSORTIUM?
JOHN D AND CATHERINE T MACARTHUR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NATIVE BIODATA CONSORTIUM find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Dakota. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2020–2023), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing