Colorado · Nonprofit
White Bison Inc
White Bison Inc (Colorado) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $86,945 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($24,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $87k
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What White Bison Inc does
Mission
A Native American operated 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation dedicated to creating and sustaining a grassroots wellbriety movement that provides culturally based healing to the next seven generations of indigenous people.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Sobriety in American Indian youth via training, counseling, and spirituality.
$1,259,560 spent$1,494,312 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,259,560.
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 $968k to $1.4M (+49%).
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 2% · 2018 23% · 2019 8% · 2020 12% · 2021 3% · 2022 -2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
6% of White Bison Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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
Kateri Coyhis
Executive Director
Board chair
Don Coyhis
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $1k → $10k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 White Bison 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
White Bison Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
50% 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 White Bison Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 66% · 2021 35% · 2022 100% · 2023 69% — 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
25% of White Bison Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
White Bison Inc draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21k 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
White Bison Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding White Bison Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $599k on record — $588k federal, $11k state.
- Department of Justice$400k
- Department of Health and Human Services$188k
- TRAINING, EDUCATION OR INSTRUCTION SRVC$11k
- DISTRIBUTION TO INDIVIDUALS$765
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 White Bison 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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
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 White Bison 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 White Bison Inc?
- White Bison Inc (Colorado) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $86,945 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($24,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does White Bison Inc have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $86,945 in grants to White Bison Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of White Bison Inc?
- THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $24,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like White Bison Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 11 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