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12 funders with a record of paying for “lakota”
Where the money went Wells Fargo Foundation → Lakota Fund: $980K across 3 grants, latest 2024 The Andrew W Mellon Foundation → First Peoples Fund: $875K across 1 grant, latest 2023 The Bush Foundation → Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation: $750K across 2 grants, latest 2023 Northwest Area Foundation → Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation: $700K across 2 grants, latest 2023 Wend II Inc → Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation: $430K across 2 grants, latest 2022 The Ruth Danley and William Enoch Moore Fund → Lakota Waldorf Society: $316K across 4 grants, latest 2025 The Myrin Institute Inc → Lakota Waldorf School: $250K across 3 grants, latest 2024 Ndn Collective Inc → Lakota Communications Inc: $210K across 2 grants, latest 2023 The Northern Cincinnati Foundation → Lakota Central Office: $81K across 4 grants, latest 2024 Lakota Community Foundation → Lakota Public School District: $56K across 6 grants, latest 2025 Seventh Generation Fund → Oaye Luta Okolakiciye: $50K across 1 grant, latest 2022 Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company → Lakota Waldorf School: $25K across 1 grant, latest 2023 The Andrew W Mellon Foundation → Cheyenne River Youth Project Inc: $750K across 1 grant, latest 2022 Northwest Area Foundation → Lakota Fund: $275K across 3 grants, latest 2024 Wend II Inc → Sicangu Community Development Center: $250K across 1 grant, latest 2022 The Bush Foundation → Oglala Lakota Structural Fire Department: $221K across 2 grants, latest 2023 Wells Fargo Foundation → The Lakota Fund: $200K across 1 grant, latest 2025 The Ruth Danley and William Enoch Moore Fund → Lakota Language Consortium: $135K across 2 grants, latest 2023 Ndn Collective Inc → Lakota Youth Development: $75K across 1 grant, latest 2022 The Northern Cincinnati Foundation → Reach Out Lakota: $58K across 3 grants, latest 2024 Lakota Community Foundation → City of Lakota: $48K across 3 grants, latest 2025 Seventh Generation Fund → Oglala Lakota Children's Justice Center: $40K across 1 grant, latest 2022 Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company → Lakota Waldorf School Aka Wolakota Waldorf Society: $21K across 1 grant, latest 2024 Northwest Area Foundation → Lakota Youth Development: $200K across 3 grants, latest 2024 Wend II Inc → Tusweca Tiospaye: $100K across 2 grants, latest 2023 The Andrew W Mellon Foundation → Oglala Lakota College: $100K across 1 grant, latest 2023 Ndn Collective Inc → Lakota Center: $50K across 1 grant, latest 2024 Seventh Generation Fund → All Nations Gathering Center: $40K across 1 grant, latest 2022 Lakota Community Foundation → Lakota Ambulance Service: $26K across 2 grants, latest 2025 Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company → Pine Ridge Girls School Inc: $20K across 1 grant, latest 2024 The Northern Cincinnati Foundation → West Chester Township Police: $11K across 1 grant, latest 2022 Northwest Area Foundation → The Lakota Fund Incorporated: $75K across 1 grant, latest 2022 Seventh Generation Fund → Niyake Yuza Youth Services: $40K across 1 grant, latest 2022 Lakota Community Foundation → City of Lakota North Dakota: $26K across 1 grant, latest 2022 Seventh Generation Fund → Lakota Wellness Society: $20K across 1 grant, latest 2021 Wend II Inc → Sacred Pipe Resource Center: $20K across 1 grant, latest 2023 Wend II Inc → Missouri River Educational Cooperative Foundation: $16K across 1 grant, latest 2022 Wend II Inc → Barcid Foundation: $15K across 1 grant, latest 2022 Lakota Community Foundation → Lakota Scholarship Committee: $12K across 4 grants, latest 2025 Ndn Collective Inc → Oglala Lakota Structural Fire Department: $10K across 1 grant, latest 2021 Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company → Lakota Language Consortium Inc: $8K across 1 grant, latest 2023 Lakota Community Foundation → Lakota Cal Ripken Baseball: $6K across 2 grants, latest 2023 Lakota Community Foundation → Lakota Trap Shooting League: $5K across 1 grant, latest 2022 Lakota Community Foundation → Lakota Child Care Center: $5K across 2 grants, latest 2024 Lakota Community Foundation → Lakota Good Samaritan Center: $5K across 3 grants, latest 2024 Lakota Community Foundation → Lakota Community Club: $4K across 1 grant, latest 2023 Lakota Community Foundation → Lakota Library: $3K across 1 grant, latest 2023 Lakota Community Foundation → Lakota Park District: $2K across 1 grant, latest 2025 Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company → Lakota Lockup Project: $2K across 1 grant, latest 2024 Lakota Community Foundation → Lakota Cemetery Association: $1K across 1 grant, latest 2022 The Andrew W Mellon Foundation: $1.7M on this topic. Open the funder. The Andrew W Mellon Foundation $1.7M Northwest Area Foundation: $1.3M on this topic. Open the funder. Northwest Area Foundation $1.3M Wells Fargo Foundation: $1.2M on this topic. Open the funder. Wells Fargo Foundation $1.2M The Bush Foundation: $971K on this topic. Open the funder. The Bush Foundation $971K Wend II Inc: $831K on this topic. Open the funder. Wend II Inc $831K The Ruth Danley and William Enoch Moore Fund: $451K on this topic. Open the funder. The Ruth Danley and William E… $451K Ndn Collective Inc: $345K on this topic. Open the funder. Ndn Collective Inc $345K The Myrin Institute Inc: $250K on this topic. Open the funder. The Myrin Institute Inc $250K Lakota Community Foundation: $198K on this topic. Open the funder. Lakota Community Foundation $198K Seventh Generation Fund: $190K on this topic. Open the funder. Seventh Generation Fund $190K The Northern Cincinnati Foundation: $150K on this topic. Open the funder. The Northern Cincinnati Found… $150K Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company: $75K on this topic. Open the funder. Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Comp… $75K Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation: received $1.4M on this topic Thunder Valley Community Develo… $1.4M Lakota Fund: received $1.3M on this topic Lakota Fund $1.3M First Peoples Fund: received $875K on this topic First Peoples Fund $875K Cheyenne River Youth Project Inc: received $750K on this topic Cheyenne River Youth Project Inc $750K Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation: received $430K on this topic Thunder Valley Community Develo… $430K Lakota Waldorf Society: received $316K on this topic Lakota Waldorf Society $316K Lakota Youth Development: received $275K on this topic Lakota Youth Development $275K Lakota Waldorf School: received $250K on this topic Lakota Waldorf School $250K Sicangu Community Development Center: received $250K on this topic Sicangu Community Development C… $250K Oglala Lakota Structural Fire Department: received $231K on this topic Oglala Lakota Structural Fire D… $231K Lakota Communications Inc: received $210K on this topic Lakota Communications Inc $210K The Lakota Fund: received $200K on this topic The Lakota Fund $200K Lakota Language Consortium: received $135K on this topic Lakota Language Consortium $135K Tusweca Tiospaye: received $100K on this topic Tusweca Tiospaye $100K Oglala Lakota College: received $100K on this topic Oglala Lakota College $100K Lakota Central Office: received $81K on this topic Lakota Central Office $81K The Lakota Fund Incorporated: received $75K on this topic The Lakota Fund Incorporated $75K Reach Out Lakota: received $58K on this topic Reach Out Lakota $58K Lakota Public School District: received $56K on this topic Lakota Public School District $56K Oaye Luta Okolakiciye: received $50K on this topic Oaye Luta Okolakiciye $50K Lakota Center: received $50K on this topic Lakota Center $50K City of Lakota: received $48K on this topic City of Lakota $48K Oglala Lakota Children's Justice Center: received $40K on this topic Oglala Lakota Children's Justic… $40K All Nations Gathering Center: received $40K on this topic All Nations Gathering Center $40K Niyake Yuza Youth Services: received $40K on this topic Niyake Yuza Youth Services $40K Lakota Ambulance Service: received $26K on this topic Lakota Ambulance Service $26K City of Lakota North Dakota: received $26K on this topic City of Lakota North Dakota $26K Lakota Waldorf School: received $25K on this topic Lakota Waldorf School $25K Lakota Waldorf School Aka Wolakota Waldorf Society: received $21K on this topic Lakota Waldorf School Aka Wolak… $21K Pine Ridge Girls School Inc: received $20K on this topic Pine Ridge Girls School Inc $20K Lakota Wellness Society: received $20K on this topic Lakota Wellness Society $20K Sacred Pipe Resource Center: received $20K on this topic Sacred Pipe Resource Center $20K Missouri River Educational Cooperative Foundation: received $16K on this topic Missouri River Educational Coop… $16K Barcid Foundation: received $15K on this topic Barcid Foundation $15K Lakota Scholarship Committee: received $12K on this topic Lakota Scholarship Committee $12K West Chester Township Police: received $11K on this topic West Chester Township Police $11K Lakota Language Consortium Inc: received $8K on this topic Lakota Language Consortium Inc $8K Lakota Cal Ripken Baseball: received $6K on this topic Lakota Cal Ripken Baseball $6K Lakota Trap Shooting League: received $5K on this topic Lakota Trap Shooting League $5K Lakota Child Care Center: received $5K on this topic Lakota Child Care Center $5K Lakota Good Samaritan Center: received $5K on this topic Lakota Good Samaritan Center $5K Lakota Community Club: received $4K on this topic Lakota Community Club $4K Lakota Library: received $3K on this topic Lakota Library $3K Lakota Park District: received $2K on this topic Lakota Park District $2K Lakota Lockup Project: received $2K on this topic Lakota Lockup Project $2K Lakota Cemetery Association: received $1K on this topic Lakota Cemetery Association $1K 12 funders, 46 recipients, grants matching “lakota” only. Ribbon width is proportional to the total given; each funder has its own colour (smaller funders in gray). Hover a name to isolate its flows, click a funder to open it. Drag to move around; zoom with the buttons, a double-click, or the wheel after clicking the map. Largest: $5,500 to Lakota Scholarship Committee — college scholarships 11 @ $500 - payments made directly to college university or tech school
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Largest: $350,000 to THUNDER VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — strengthening our foundation by fostering healing through lakota lifeways to promote a reimagined regenerative economy
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Largest: $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.
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Largest: $17,070 to LAKOTA CENTRAL OFFICE — programming in lakota schools
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Largest: $100,000 to LAKOTA WALDORF SOCIETY — campus expansion
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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…
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Largest: $100,000 to OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE — to support the lakota studies department
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Largest: $200,000 to LAKOTA COMMUNICATIONS INC — community self-determination grants
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Largest: $25,000 to LAKOTA WALDORF SCHOOL — project title: lakota language & culture program
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Largest: $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.
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Largest: $100,000 to Lakota Waldorf School — integrate waldorf and lakota culture
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Largest: $700,000 to LAKOTA FUND — housing affordability programming
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