Alaska · Nonprofit
NATIVE CONSERVANCY
NATIVE CONSERVANCY (Alaska) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,622,535 to it, the largest being NDN COLLECTIVE INC ($2,125,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 61
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Native Conservancy does
Mission
The mission of Native Conservancy is to support indigenous people's efforts to preserve, repatriate and restore ancestral lands through the establishment of indigenous land conservation trusts on scarred lands and waters that are inherent to the protection and preservation of sovereignty, subsistence, spirituality and native culture.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Oceanback habitat restoration: oceanback advances mariculture programming through community training, seed production, and pilot scale processing innovation in southeast and southcentral alaska. During the year, the program tested a floating, at sea kelp processing model in partnership with an alaska based organization, harvesting and processing sugar and ribbon kelp to expand local processing capacity. The program also conducted a hands on kelp farming training in kake, alaska, providing instruction in cultivation, harvest methods, and business planning. These activities supported indigenous led marine stewardship, local capacity building, and sustainable economic development throughout coastal communities in alaska.
$1,291,892 spentof which $18,000 as grants39% of program spendingPeopleback: peopleback focuses on food sovereignty, food security, and contributing traditional practices in line with cultural restoration programming in support of indigenous elders and community members. Through monthly distributions, frozen subsistence foods and prepared meals were provided to support nutritional security and the preservation of traditional foods. These distributions have also been shared outside of the organization's base of operations, reaching communities throughout alaska. Peopleback also advanced a cultural carving initiative through the transport and storage of two yellow cedar logs to cordova, alaska, for future healing pole development. The organization coordinated logistics, and community consultation with elders, cultural practitioners, and tribal leaders to ensure the project is grounded in traditional knowledge and cultural protocols.
$1,244,568 spentof which $45,800 as grants38% of program spendingLandback: landback leads land conservation stewardship to secure lands through acquisition, partnership, and long term preservation planning in the copper river delta and southcentral alaska. The program advanced efforts to protect 11,600 acres in the bering river coal area through conservation strategies designed to prevent incompatible development and protect critical habitat, including salmon. During the year, the organization completed or advanced the return and protection of multiple land parcels, supporting cultural preservation and long term conservation outcomes.
$378,887 spent12% of program spendingOther program activities include conferences and communications: this accounts for donor and grant outreach and marketing to help support the mission of the organization.
$364,726 spent11% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,280,073.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2023 to 2024, from $2.4M to $3.4M (+40%).
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 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of NATIVE CONSERVANCY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 30 funders, grant income rose $26k → $2.0M.
17 of 61 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 CONSERVANCY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 61 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 CONSERVANCY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
65% 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 CONSERVANCY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 63% · 2021 26% · 2022 49% · 2023 26% — 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
50% of NATIVE CONSERVANCY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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 CONSERVANCY draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Alaska, across 18 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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 CONSERVANCY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding NATIVE CONSERVANCY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $60k on record.
- Denali Commission$60k
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 CONSERVANCY
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 Alaska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Nc Holdings LLC · disregarded
- Giyah Boat Company LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIVE CONSERVANCY: 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 CONSERVANCY?
- NATIVE CONSERVANCY (Alaska) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,622,535 to it, the largest being NDN COLLECTIVE INC ($2,125,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIVE CONSERVANCY have?
- IRS filings report 61 organizations giving $11,622,535 in grants to NATIVE CONSERVANCY, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIVE CONSERVANCY?
- NDN COLLECTIVE INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIVE CONSERVANCY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alaska. 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 61 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