Minnesota · Nonprofit
OYATE HOTANIN
OYATE HOTANIN (Minnesota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $682,949 to it, the largest being THE BUSH FOUNDATION ($403,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $112k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $683k
- Net assets
- $98k
What Oyate Hotanin does
Mission
Our mission is: To lead a movement for the next 500 years that supports a new era of art, healing, and change. Since 2014, we have been amplifying American Indian thought, voices, and perspectives to complete the missing narratives that hamper deep understanding of our society, spark conversations that bridge divides, and spur action that drives transformation. We create, host, and promote artistic events that draw on our history as the first and most powerful stewards of this nation, building a coalition of individuals and communities that use art, laughter, conversation, and collaborative creativity to heal and transform society one story at a time.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
b) b) Repair Community Circles. In 2025 we submitted to Department of Children Families and Youth Restorative Practice Initiative to fund our pilot to move the Oyate Hotanin Family Circle and Victim Offender Conversation Practices from concept to application in Ramsey County for individuals returning from long-term incarceration -- and other individuals and families disrupted by violence, trauma, and incarceration -- to help them on a journey towards reconnection and healing, which, in Dakota understanding, means remembering who we are. The proposal was funded and will begin operation in 2026.
$28,684 spent34% of program spendinga) a) Society of Mother Earth (S.O.M.E): Connecting Land and People through Indigenous Thought for Climate Rescue. We followed a steady approach to achieve our goals. Monthly meetings of the leadership team gave us the center we needed to follow the path we had laid out for ourselves with this project. In many ways we exceeded our goals in ways that are hard to quantify, but we were moved by the quality of the intentions and people who rose up to join us all along the way. Highlights and examples of project outcomes for Buffalo Show; Flower Power; Wilder Buffalo Rides; Special Events; Repair Circles; Climate Grief Heling Circles; and online engagement: Outcome: Expand Number of people engaged: Artists Engaged for paid opportunities - 71 Healing Circles - 12 Buffalo Show Audience - 282 Total Online Audience Engagement: +3,100 YouTube, FB, IG
$55,788 spent66% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $84,472.
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 2020 to 2021, from $177k to $385k (+117%).
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: 2020 0% · 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
74% of OYATE HOTANIN’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Tom LaBLanc
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $40k → $48k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 OYATE HOTANIN’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
OYATE HOTANIN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
28% 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 OYATE HOTANIN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 65% · 2021 59% · 2022 89% · 2023 63% — 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.
Where its funders are
96% of OYATE HOTANIN's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $165k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
OYATE HOTANIN runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like OYATE HOTANIN
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OYATE HOTANIN: 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 OYATE HOTANIN?
- OYATE HOTANIN (Minnesota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $682,949 to it, the largest being THE BUSH FOUNDATION ($403,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OYATE HOTANIN have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $682,949 in grants to OYATE HOTANIN, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OYATE HOTANIN?
- THE BUSH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $403,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OYATE HOTANIN 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.
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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 2019–2024), and the filings of 7 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