South Dakota · Nonprofit
NDN COLLECTIVE INC
NDN COLLECTIVE INC (South Dakota) receives grants from 167 organizations whose IRS filings report $161,423,970 to it, the largest being THE BUSH FOUNDATION ($51,110,000). 89 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 167
- Grants received
- $161M
- Net assets
- $34M
What Ndn Collective Inc does
Mission
Build the collective power of indigenous peoples, communities, and nations to exercise our inherent right to self-determination, while fostering a world that is built on a foundation of justice and equity for all people and mother earth.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2024, ndn collective advanced indigenous self-determination and power-building through a range of transformative efforts. The organization invested nearly $24 million in grants to hundreds of community partners, provided over $9 million in braided capital to strengthen native-owned businesses, and returned hundreds of acres of land to tribal nations and community land trusts. Ndn also deepened leadership and capacity by training more than 200 people across diverse indigenous communities.
$39,704,418 spentof which $23,865,000 as grants$38,954 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $39,704,418.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $91M to $50M (−45%).
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.
89% of NDN COLLECTIVE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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
Nicholas Tilsen
President & CEO
Board chair
Judith Le Blanc
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 55 funders, grant income rose $600k → $19M.
42 of 167 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $50k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Ndn Fund Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money NDN COLLECTIVE INC raised.
From the IRS filings of NDN COLLECTIVE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 167 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
NDN COLLECTIVE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
31% 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 NDN COLLECTIVE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 67% · 2019 18% · 2020 15% · 2021 58% · 2022 76% · 2023 31% — 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
34% of NDN COLLECTIVE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
NDN COLLECTIVE INC draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside South Dakota, across 29 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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
NDN COLLECTIVE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 659 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 659 community improvement nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding NDN COLLECTIVE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.5M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$2.5M
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 NDN COLLECTIVE 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 South Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
65%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 53 states
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Ndn Holdings LLC · disregarded
- Ndn Action Network Inc · exempt
- Ndn Fund Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NDN COLLECTIVE 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 NDN COLLECTIVE INC?
- NDN COLLECTIVE INC (South Dakota) receives grants from 167 organizations whose IRS filings report $161,423,970 to it, the largest being THE BUSH FOUNDATION ($51,110,000). 89 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NDN COLLECTIVE INC have?
- IRS filings report 167 organizations giving $161,423,970 in grants to NDN COLLECTIVE INC, 89 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NDN COLLECTIVE INC?
- THE BUSH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $51,110,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NDN COLLECTIVE INC 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 167 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