Texas · Nonprofit
SOCIETY OF NATIVE NATIONS
SOCIETY OF NATIVE NATIONS (Texas) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,258,469 to it, the largest being ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ($545,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $856k
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $391k
What Society of Native Nations does
Mission
The Society of Native Nations (SNN) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization founded by Native individuals in Texas, with members spanning multiple states. Our mission is to advocate for Indigenous Peoples and future generations by protecting and preserving our culture, spirituality, teachings, medicine, and way of life.Our founding members bring diverse experiences from working within Indigenous communities and collaborating with various organizations, contributing unique values and perspectives to SNN. Collectively, we've witnessed the ongoing appropriation, erasure, and exploitation of Indigenous ways of life, as well as harmful policies disproportionately impacting our communities in areas such as healthcare, housing, education, mental health, substance abuse, and disability services. These experiences have compelled us to unite in defense of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and to confront the cumulative harms imposed on our lands, waters, air, and bodies.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
PIPELINES TO PLASTICS PROJECT: Texas communities have been bearing the brunt of the expansion of the fossil fuel and petrochemical industry for generations from the Permian Basin to the Gulf of Texas. Since 2016, we've been fighting the growth of pipelines, refineries, and plastic production facilities that release toxic pollution into our air, water, and land. This pollution harms marine life, wildlife, and human life in our communities, which have been deemed sacrifice zones by industry and our government.
$373,158 spent59% of program spendingRETURN TO THE EARTH & MOLDING IT PROJECT: The Return to the Earth & Molding It Project is an educational and cultural initiative that teaches families the profound importance of using natural, earth-based materials in everyday life. By centering on the ancestral practice of working with clay, the project helps participants reconnect with traditions that honor the land, strengthen community, and promote healthier homes and environments.
$248,773 spent39% of program spendingCOMMUNITY EMERGENCY SUPPORT PROJECT: The Emergency Community Response Program began in March 2020, created to meet the urgent needs of our community during the COVID-19 pandemic. What started as an immediate response to crisis has grown into a continuing commitment, as the needs of our people remain and, in many cases, have deepened.
$11,523 spent2% of program spendingYOUTH EDUCATION AND EMPOWERMENT: Native educators and youth organizers guide the design and implementation of experiential learning programs that strengthen cultural identity and intergenerational knowledge. Elders and youth work together in council to preserve culture, protect sacred sites, and revitalize Indigenous languages through stories and songs, laying the foundation for long-term intergenerational programming.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $633,454.
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 2023 to 2024, from $397k to $428k (+8%).
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: 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of SOCIETY OF NATIVE NATIONS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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.
Board chair
Frankie Orona
Chairman/ED
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $10k → $575k.
6 of 24 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 SOCIETY OF NATIVE NATIONS’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
SOCIETY OF NATIVE NATIONS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
80% 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 SOCIETY OF NATIVE NATIONS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 50% · 2020 44% · 2021 44% · 2022 44% · 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
30% of SOCIETY OF NATIVE NATIONS'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
SOCIETY OF NATIVE NATIONS draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $745k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
SOCIETY OF NATIVE NATIONS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,990 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,990 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding SOCIETY OF NATIVE NATIONS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $383k on record.
- Department of Justice$383k
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 SOCIETY OF NATIVE NATIONS
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 Texas
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.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOCIETY OF NATIVE NATIONS: 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 SOCIETY OF NATIVE NATIONS?
- SOCIETY OF NATIVE NATIONS (Texas) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,258,469 to it, the largest being ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ($545,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOCIETY OF NATIVE NATIONS have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $2,258,469 in grants to SOCIETY OF NATIVE NATIONS, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOCIETY OF NATIVE NATIONS?
- ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC is the largest funder on record, with $545,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOCIETY OF NATIVE NATIONS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 24 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