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12 funders with a record of paying for “lakota”
Where the money went
Largest: $5,500 to Lakota Scholarship Committee — college scholarships 11 @ $500 - payments made directly to college university or tech school
Largest: $350,000 to THUNDER VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — strengthening our foundation by fostering healing through lakota lifeways to promote a reimagined regenerative economy
Wend IiBentonville, AR
8 matching grants · $831,000 · through 2023Largest: $200,000 to Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation — to support the lakota language & education initiative effort to reclaim, revitalize and restore the lakota language and lifeways in the community.
The Northern Cincinnati FoundationWest Chester, OHCharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $122,363 · through 2024Largest: $17,070 to LAKOTA CENTRAL OFFICE — programming in lakota schools
The Ruth Danley and William Enoch Moore FundPittsburgh, PA
6 matching grants · $450,951 · through 2025Largest: $100,000 to LAKOTA WALDORF SOCIETY — campus expansion
Largest: $121,063 to OGLALA LAKOTA STRUCTURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT — this grant supports the development and launch of the oglala lakota structural fire department, which will be the first community-led structural fire department to serve the pine r…
Largest: $100,000 to OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE — to support the lakota studies department
Ndn CollectiveRapid City, SDCharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $345,000 · through 2024Largest: $200,000 to LAKOTA COMMUNICATIONS INC — community self-determination grants
Largest: $25,000 to LAKOTA WALDORF SCHOOL — project title: lakota language & culture program
Seventh Generation FundEureka, CACharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $190,000 · through 2022Largest: $40,000 to NIYAKE YUZA YOUTH SERVICES — providing a safe environment for lakota youth to socialize, learn the lakota language and culture and directing young adults in acquiring basic needs and services.
The Myrin InstituteGreat Barrington, MA
3 matching grants · $250,000 · through 2024Largest: $100,000 to Lakota Waldorf School — integrate waldorf and lakota culture
Largest: $700,000 to LAKOTA FUND — housing affordability programming
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Source: IRS Form 990-PF Part XV and Form 990 Schedule I, tax years 2019–2025. These are grants already paid, a record of what an organization funds rather than an open call. Private foundations rarely accept unsolicited applications and the route in is usually a program officer; grantmaking charities and associations more often run real application cycles, so check their website. How this data is built, and its limits →