Minnesota · Nonprofit
NATIVE SUN COMMUNITY POWER DEVELOPMENT
NATIVE SUN COMMUNITY POWER DEVELOPMENT (Minnesota) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,372,000 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($575,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
NATIVE SUN COMMUNITY POWER DEVELOPMENT has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,184 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,184 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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.
- The Bush Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Northwest Area Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Climate Imperative Foundationshared funders
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.
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: 2023 80% · 2024 64%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of NATIVE SUN COMMUNITY POWER DEVELOPMENT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $320k → $354k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 SUN COMMUNITY POWER DEVELOPMENT’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 SUN COMMUNITY POWER DEVELOPMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
58% 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 SUN COMMUNITY POWER DEVELOPMENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 42% · 2022 65% · 2023 53% — 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 SUN COMMUNITY POWER DEVELOPMENT draws 51% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $206k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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 8 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Bush Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchMN · backs 50 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Northwest Area Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchMN · backs 53 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Climate Imperative Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 50 organizations that share your funders
- Illuminative Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- First Peoples Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Native American Agriculture Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- First Nations Development Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Urban Indian Family Coalitionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Womadix Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Notah Begay III Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rf Catalytic Capital Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vadon Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 SUN COMMUNITY POWER DEVELOPMENT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.3M on record.
- Department of Energy$8.3M
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 SUN COMMUNITY POWER DEVELOPMENT
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Windustry · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIVE SUN COMMUNITY POWER DEVELOPMENT: 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 SUN COMMUNITY POWER DEVELOPMENT?
- NATIVE SUN COMMUNITY POWER DEVELOPMENT (Minnesota) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,372,000 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($575,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIVE SUN COMMUNITY POWER DEVELOPMENT have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,372,000 in grants to NATIVE SUN COMMUNITY POWER DEVELOPMENT, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIVE SUN COMMUNITY POWER DEVELOPMENT?
- The McKnight Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $575,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIVE SUN COMMUNITY POWER DEVELOPMENT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 8funders 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