North Dakota · Nonprofit
SACRED PIPE RESOURCE CENTER
SACRED PIPE RESOURCE CENTER (North Dakota) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,427,200 to it, the largest being THE BUSH FOUNDATION ($1,509,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $4.4M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Sacred Pipe Resource Center does
Mission
To address and support the social/cultural, emotional, mental, spiritual, and physical needs of Native Pople of all tribes living in the Bismarck-Mandan and surrounding area in order to foster strong, self-sufficient individuals and families, and to provide liaison services between Native and non-Native people in order to foster a cohesive community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Community engagement - SPRC provided services to the American Indian community by coordinating activities of health fairs, cross-cultural and diversity events, and family-building activities.
$581,227 spent75% of program spendingYouth Engagement - SPRC provided specific services to American Indian youth to help address the overrepresentation of youth in the juvenile justice system and provide positive cultural experience and community engagement.
$76,737 spent10% of program spendingCommunity and Economic Development - SPRC provided technical assistance/support to Native-owned businesses and Native-led nonprofit organizations to help develop the infrastructure for community and economic development opportunities.
$117,953 spent15% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $775,917.
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. 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 2022 to 2023, from $914k to $1.4M (+55%).
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: 2023 4% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of SACRED PIPE RESOURCE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Cheryl Ann Kary
Executive Director
Board chair
Chadwick Kramer
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $17k → $1.1M.
10 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 SACRED PIPE RESOURCE CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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
SACRED PIPE RESOURCE CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% 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
40% 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 SACRED PIPE RESOURCE CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 63% · 2019 32% · 2020 46% · 2021 31% · 2022 58% · 2023 35% — 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
46% of SACRED PIPE RESOURCE CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
SACRED PIPE RESOURCE CENTER draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside North Dakota, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $736k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
SACRED PIPE RESOURCE CENTER holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,274 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like SACRED PIPE RESOURCE CENTER
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 North Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 SACRED PIPE RESOURCE CENTER: 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 SACRED PIPE RESOURCE CENTER?
- SACRED PIPE RESOURCE CENTER (North Dakota) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,427,200 to it, the largest being THE BUSH FOUNDATION ($1,509,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SACRED PIPE RESOURCE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $4,427,200 in grants to SACRED PIPE RESOURCE CENTER, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SACRED PIPE RESOURCE CENTER?
- THE BUSH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,509,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SACRED PIPE RESOURCE CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 32 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing