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Private foundations don’t post open calls, so nobody can search them. We read IRS filings instead — 9.6 million grants from 174,053 foundations and grantmaking charities, searchable by what the money was actually for.
12 funders with a record of paying for “natives”
Where the money went
Largest: $25,000 to COMMUNITY PARTNERS — california native vote project - supporting native health: to support native health by strengthening relationships between native and non-native allies through traditional healing …
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
97 matching grants · $29.5M · through 2024Largest: $100,000 to ALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY — develop a native community organizing model on how to strengthen and expand native leadership in native communities through indigenous-based research that shapes roadmaps for socia…
Largest: $103,000 to NATIVE WAYS FEDERATION — native ways federation promotes more equitable philanthropy and donor education in support of native'led solutions. they raise awareness and support for native communities; grow th…
National Indian Health BoardWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
106 matching grants · $5.0M · through 2024Largest: $20,000 to ALASKA NATIVE HEALTH BOARD — to forward the mission of promoting reliable and affordable insurance for native americans
Largest: $548,000 to FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE — to support native american communities, supporting native american communities, advancing diversity and equity in the environmental movement
Largest: $50,000 to CENTER FOR NATIVE AM YOU ASPEN INST — 77395 elevating native american approaches for leadership development and narrative change so native peoples can author their own story and future
Largest: $50,000 to College of St Benedict Business Off — to change narratives on native inequities, nurture native leadership, and build native and non-native relationships by investigating and disseminating research on impacts of assimi…
First Nations Development InstituteLongmont, COCharity · may take applications
91 matching grants · $2.8M · through 2024Largest: $100,650 to NATIVE AMERICAN FISH AND WILDLIFE S — economic development
Largest: $300,000 to Native American Youth and Family Center — for capital support for redevelopment of tistilal village, for low-income/formerly homeless native families and low-income families in multnomah county
Largest: $895,000 to COMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION — core support for the native voices rising collaborative for research, donor education, re-granting, and capacity-building in american indian, alaska native, and native hawaiian com…
Largest: $250,000 to Native American Rights Fund — sacred places, indigenous knowledge: implementing undrip toward native american religious freedom
Largest: $950,000 to INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN AND ALASKA NATIVE CULTURE AND ARTS DEVELOPMENT — expanding the footprints of native arts & culture
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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 →