Minnesota · Nonprofit
Waskawiwin
Waskawiwin (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $527k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $50k
- Net assets
- $468k
What Waskawiwin does
Mission
Waskawiwin provides training and education to support the building and maintaining of high-speed communications networks for Indigenous communities and acts as a governing body and fiscal organization providing fundraising and administrative support.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Tax year 2025 is Waskawiwins first Form 990 filing; prior year was Form 990-N e-Postcard which does not list program services. See Schedule O for explanation.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Waskawiwin convened four Tribal Broadband Bootcamps in 2025 gathering approximately 230 participants from Tribal Nations across the West Southwest and Midwest. Each TBB brings together Tribal broadband practitioners ISP operators technical specialists and host community members for hands-on learning grounded in the host Tribes own deployment context. The March 18 and November 3 gatherings at RantanenTown Ranch CA focused on California Tribes working with the California Middle Mile Broadband Network. The April 7 gathering at Pueblo of Jemez - the first TBB in New Mexico - featured the work of JNet the Pueblos Tribal ISP. The August 18 Sault Ste. Marie MI bootcamp convened Tribes from the upper Midwest. TBBs are structured around peer learning rather than top-down instruction so that broadband capacity-building remains rooted in tribal sovereignty.
$31,781 spent76% of program spendingIn 2025 Waskawiwin assumed facilitation of the Indigenous Digital Inclusion Working Group inherited from the National Digital Inclusion Alliance. The Working Group provides a peer learning community for Tribal and Indigenous digital inclusion practitioners - those working to ensure broadband infrastructure translates into meaningful adoption and use within their communities. Convening outreach and member engagement are led by contractor Davida Delmar.
$6,026 spent14% of program spendingThroughout 2025 Waskawiwin engaged with federal agencies Tribal governments philanthropic funders and broadband industry partners to advance the policy and resourcing conditions under which Tribal Nations can build own and govern their own broadband infrastructure. Board members and contractors participated in external speaking engagements and policy convenings contributing to a broader ecosystem of partners aligned with broadband sovereignty.
$3,777 spent9% 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: $41,584.
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
Matthew Rantanen
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Waskawiwin’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Waskawiwin's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k 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
Waskawiwin runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Waskawiwin: 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 Waskawiwin?
- Waskawiwin (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Waskawiwin have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $50,000 in grants to Waskawiwin.
- Who is the largest funder of Waskawiwin?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND 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 Waskawiwin 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 FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 1 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