South Dakota · Nonprofit
Oceti Sakowin Writers Society
Oceti Sakowin Writers Society (South Dakota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,000 to it, the largest being The Henry Luce Foundation Inc ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $60k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $75k
- Net assets
- $36k
What Oceti Sakowin Writers Society does
Mission
The Writers Society organizes literary efforts for the purposes of preserving and defending Oceti Sakowin (Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota) cultures, oral traditions, and histories; to reaffirm our peoples' political statuses; and to regulate and transform representations of such that are inaccurate and damaging. To those ends, we create, research, review, publish, present, and promote works in various genres in a manner that will bring about a greater understanding of our cultures, legacies, and lands.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
During the current year, we focused on the Annual Tribal Writers Retreat - a space dedicated to Indigenous literary inquiry, cultural exchange, and intellectual sovereignty. There were a dozen Indigenous writers present for the Retreat. Planning also begun for some projects taking shape in 2025.
$24,796 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $24,796.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Oceti Sakowin Writers Society’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
Oceti Sakowin Writers Society leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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
Oceti Sakowin Writers Society draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside South Dakota, across 3 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Oceti Sakowin Writers Society runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Oceti Sakowin Writers Society?
- Oceti Sakowin Writers Society (South Dakota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,000 to it, the largest being The Henry Luce Foundation Inc ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Oceti Sakowin Writers Society have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $75,000 in grants to Oceti Sakowin Writers Society.
- Who is the largest funder of Oceti Sakowin Writers Society?
- The Henry Luce Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Oceti Sakowin Writers Society 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 FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 3 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