Montana · Nonprofit
Western Native Voice Inc
Western Native Voice Inc (Montana) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,983,500 to it, the largest being A BETTER BIG SKY ($650,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $404k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $-22210
What Western Native Voice Inc does
Mission
Educate and increase involvement by Native Americans in civic engagement and voter participation and advocate for policies that protect Native American rights and/or address the needs of Native communities.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Program
Western Native Voice Inc (WNV), formed in July 2022 as an non-profit social welfare organization under Section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code. We are committed to inspiring Native leadership so our communities flourish. We provide the information and tools necessary to empower citizens to have a voice and an impact on the decisions affecting their lives. We strive to protect the rights of Native Americans through leadership development, education, advocacy, and civic engagement to promote social, racial, gender, economic, and environmental justice to preserve our land, culture, and way of life for future generations.Native Americans make up 9% of Montana's population, with half of the population living off reservations. Native Americans are often overlooked in t lol lol he broader conversation among national groups doing progressive issue advocacy. Critical issues, such as Native civil rights, votingaccess, healthcare, and education, are often overlooked. WNV Inc fills this gap with focused outreach and engagement with tribal, state, and federal elected officials. In recent years, Montana and the United States have witnessed a concerted effort to roll back civil rights and…
$382,437 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $382,437.
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
Pat Smith
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $70k → $275k.
3 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $4.2M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Western Native Voice Education Project). These are real filings, and they are not money Western Native Voice Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Western Native Voice Inc’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
Western Native Voice Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% 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
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 Western Native Voice Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 57% · 2023 42% — 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
Western Native Voice Inc draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $405k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Western Native Voice Inc's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,885 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2022
Organizations like Western Native Voice Inc
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 Montana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Western Native Voice Education Project · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Western Native Voice Inc: 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 Western Native Voice Inc?
- Western Native Voice Inc (Montana) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,983,500 to it, the largest being A BETTER BIG SKY ($650,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Western Native Voice Inc have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,983,500 in grants to Western Native Voice Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Western Native Voice Inc?
- A BETTER BIG SKY is the largest funder on record, with $650,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Western Native Voice Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2022–2022), and the filings of 14 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