Minnesota · Nonprofit
Pipestone Indian Shrine Association
Pipestone Indian Shrine Association (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $145,222 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ($96,800). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $316k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $145k
- Net assets
- $246k
What Pipestone Indian Shrine Association does
Mission
Cooperating Association with the National Park Service dedicated to preserserving the vanishing art of Native American pipemaking, and assisting the Park Service
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Sales and demonstration of the vanishing art of pipemaking, providing economic opportunity to American Indian artisans in the Pipestone area.
$246,990 spentof which $47,029 as grants$315,619 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $246,990.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $241k to $396k (+64%).
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: 2017 26% · 2018 27% · 2019 30% · 2020 30% · 2021 21% · 2022 41% · 2023 28% · 2024 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $6k → $74k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 Pipestone Indian Shrine Association’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
Pipestone Indian Shrine Association 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
100% 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 Pipestone Indian Shrine Association.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 38% · 2023 81% — 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
Pipestone Indian Shrine Association draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $48k 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.
Government funding Pipestone Indian Shrine Association receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $630k on record.
- Department of the Interior$630k
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 Pipestone Indian Shrine Association
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.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Pipestone Indian Shrine Association: 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 Pipestone Indian Shrine Association?
- Pipestone Indian Shrine Association (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $145,222 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ($96,800). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Pipestone Indian Shrine Association have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $145,222 in grants to Pipestone Indian Shrine Association, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Pipestone Indian Shrine Association?
- NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $96,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Pipestone Indian Shrine Association 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 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