Texas · Nonprofit
NATIVES RISING INC
NATIVES RISING INC (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,808,446 to it, the largest being TIGER GLOBAL IMPACT VENTURES INC ($1,200,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $35k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $429k
What Natives Rising Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to holistically empower indigenous people by combining economic opportunities in technology and entrepreneurship with wellness education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The women in tech fellowship provided year-round mentorship, career coaching, and job readiness training to 40 indigenous college women pursuing technology degrees. Fellows received personalized interview preparation, resume and linkedin coaching, and technical skill development. Key outcomes included fellows securing internships and roles at microsoft, google, apple, and sandia national labs. Program highlights included an internship preparation event with waymo's senior university recruiter and a career panel featuring hiring leaders from nvidia, google, meta, and shipt. Fellows reported increased confidence, stronger interview skills, and greater clarity in their career paths.
$167,567 spent50% of program spendingThe founders circle provided five native founders with 1:1 mentorship, pitch refinement, investor readiness training, and access to indigenous-aligned capital networks. Founders participated in the founders summit at res, featuring leaders from raven indigenous capital and virtual gurus. Notable outcomes include two founders securing venture capital investment and one founder's company kismet health, led by alaska native founder cierra gromoff being acquired by kooth digital health, a publicly traded global mental health company.
$106,400 spent31% of program spendingNatives rising launched its first indigenous ai and prompt engineering workshop in 2025, earning a 9.16 nps score. The program built foundational ai literacy and confidence among indigenous participants, helping them feel more prepared for an ai-driven economy. Staff invested significant time in curriculum development, program design, and expanding ai education offerings to address the growing gap in ai readiness for underrepresented communities.
$43,064 spent13% of program spendingIn 2025, natives rising invested staff time in developing the holistic wellness education program, focused on emotional well-being, intergenerational healing, and holistic empowerment for indigenous communities. Activities included program research, curriculum development, and program design in preparation for a full program launch. This foundational work positions the program for expanded delivery in 2026.
$21,408 spent6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $338,439.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $1.4M to $872k (−37%).
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.
37% of NATIVES RISING INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (77% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 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
Danielle Forward
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 NATIVES RISING 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
NATIVES RISING INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% 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 NATIVES RISING INC.
“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
70% of NATIVES RISING INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $540k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 2 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
NATIVES RISING INC's revenue fell 98% between 2023 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,328 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like NATIVES RISING 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% 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 NATIVES RISING 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 NATIVES RISING INC?
- NATIVES RISING INC (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,808,446 to it, the largest being TIGER GLOBAL IMPACT VENTURES INC ($1,200,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NATIVES RISING INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $1,808,446 in grants to NATIVES RISING INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIVES RISING INC?
- TIGER GLOBAL IMPACT VENTURES INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIVES RISING INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2023–2025), 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