GrantmakersDistrict of Columbia

National Indian Health Board

Washington, DC · EIN 23-7226316. Reported 116 grants totalling $5,984,581 to 77 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

77organizations funded
$25,000median reported grant
$5,984,581granted, 2021-2024
35%of grantees funded again the next year
9%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 77 distinct organizations, with 9% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 35% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $25,000. Half of what it reported fell between $12,000 and $50,000; the smallest was $5,233 and the largest $474,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
18 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
37 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
28 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
17 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
12 grants
$250,000 Or More
4 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Salt River Pima-MaricopaScottsdale, AZ$543,300332024
Alaska Native Tribal Health ConsortiumAnchorage, AK$474,000112021
Turtle Mountain Band Chippewa IndiansBelcourt, ND$416,000332024
United South & Eastern Tribes IncNashville, TN$375,000112021
Tule River Indian Health Center IncPorterville, CA$365,000222024
Great Plains Tribal Leaders Health BoardRapid City, SD$350,000222024
Oransi LLCRadford, VA$258,588112023
Ho-Chunk Nation 1Black River Falls, WI$196,500222024
Alen CorporationAustin, TX$177,253112023
Albuquerque Area Indian Health Board IncAlbuquerque, NM$165,000222023
Chela Films LLCWashington, MD$120,428332024
Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of LouisianaMarksville, LA$116,500112024
Sonoma County Indian Health Project IncSanta Rosa, CA$115,000222024
Pyramid CommunicationsSeattle, WA$113,204112023
Hopi TRIBE1Kykotsmovi, AZ$100,000222023
Northwest Tribal Emergency Management CouncilSnohomish, WA$100,000222023
Northwest Portland Area Indian Health BoardPortland, OR$98,500332023
United Indian Health Services IncArcata, CA$87,250332024
Lummi Indian Business CouncilBellingham, WA$79,000222023
Ponca Tribe of Nebraska-1 (deleted)Niobrara, NE$75,000112024
Dot Lake VillageFairbanks, AK$70,000222024
Pala Band of Mission IndiansPala, CA$69,000222023
Sitka Tribe of AlaskaSitka, AK$69,000332023
Rosebud Sioux TribeRosebud, SD$67,000332024
American Indian Health Service of Chicago IncChicago, IL$65,000112023
Rocky Mountain Tribal Leaders CouncilBillings, MT$65,000112023
Skokomish Indian TribeSkokomish, WA$65,000112023
Swinomish Tribal Indian CommunityLa Conner, WA$64,781332024
Suquamish Indian Tribe (1)Suquamish, WA$60,000112024
Winnebago Comprehensive Healthcare SystemWinnebago, NE$54,000332024
San Carlos Apache Healthcare CorpPeridot, AZ$50,000222024
Norton Sound Health CorporationNome, AK$45,000112024
Alaska Native Health BoardAnchorage, AK$40,000222024
Kickapoo Tribe of OklahomaMcloud, OK$40,000222024
Southern Plains Tribal Health Board FoundationOklahoma City, OK$40,000222022
Tuba City Regional Health Care CorporationTuba City, AZ$38,000112024
Indian Country Media LLCGrand Rapids, MI$35,000112023
Lower Elwha Klallam TribePort Angeles, WA$35,000212023
Mathematica IncPhiladelphia, PA$34,430112024
American Indian Health Commission for Washington StatePort Angeles, WA$30,000112023
Gila River Health Care CorporationSacaton, AZ$30,000112024
Inter-Tribal Council of Arizona IncPhoenix, AZ$30,000112021
Iowa Tribe of OklahomaPerkins, OK$30,000112024
Port Gamble S'klallam Health ClinicKingston, WA$30,000112023
Yukon Kuskokwin Health CorporationBethel, AK$30,000112023
Klamath Tribal Health & Family ServicesKlamath Falls, OR$29,167112024
Arizona State UniversityScottsdale, AZ$27,677112022
Saulte Ste Marie Tribal HealthSault Ste Marie, MI$27,000212023
NkwusmArlee, MT$25,000112023
Wide Ruins Community School IncChambers, AZ$25,000112023
Blackfeet Community CollegeBrowning, MT$23,700112023
Dine CollegeTsaile, AZ$20,000222024
Santee Sioux Tribe of Nesantee Health Center Little Moccasins PrgmNiobrara, NE$17,500222024
Chickahominy Indian Tribe - EasternProvidence Forge, VA$17,000222024
San Carlos Apache Tribe-1San Carlos, AZ$17,000222024
Fiscalnote IncWashington, DC$15,357112023
Cheyenne and Arapohoe TribesConcho, OK$15,000112022
Day Eagle Hope ProjectHarlem, MT$15,000222023
Makah Tribal Council 1BNeah Bay, WA$15,000112023
Mt Sanford Tribal ConsortiumGakona, AK$15,000112022
Sokaogon Chippewa CommunityCrandon, WI$15,000112022
Toiyabe Indian Health Project IncBishop, CA$15,000112023
Tribal Government of Aleut Community of St Paul IslandAnchorage, AL$15,000112022
The Eastern Band of the Cherokee NationCherokee, NC$12,000112022
Winslow Indian Health Care Center IncWinslow, AZ$12,000112022
Bay Mills Indian CommunityBrimley, MI$11,500112024
Mashantucket Pequot NationMashantucket, CT$10,000112023
Navajo Health Foundation-Sage Memorial Hospital IncGanado, AZ$10,000112023
Puyallup Tribal Health Authori-1Tacoma, WA$10,000112023
Wichita and Affiliated TRIBES1Anadarko, OK$10,000112023
Wind Environmental Services LLCBonne Terre, MO$8,885112024
Muscogee (creek) NationOkmulgee, OK$7,790112023
Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of MichiganMt Pleasant, MI$7,500112021
Cow Creek TribeRoseburg, OR$6,750112021
Pueblo of PojoaqueSanta Fe, NM$6,050112023
Yurok TribeKlamath, CA$5,500112021
Alaska Native Tribal Health ConsortiumAnchorage, AK$5,471112022

28 of 77 (36%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 17 of 77 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Health Care
12 orgs
Education
3 orgs
Mental Health
1 org
Diseases & Disorders
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202110$1,019,926$25,000
202225$933,005$20,000
202351$2,204,185$23,700
202430$1,827,465$30,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

15% of its giving went to organizations in Arizona. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Arizona
$903K
Alaska
$748K
California
$657K
Washington
$602K
South Dakota
$417K
North Dakota
$416K
Tennessee
$375K
Virginia
$276K

Down to the city

Scottsdale, AZ
$571K
Anchorage, AK
$519K
Belcourt, ND
$416K
Nashville, TN
$375K
Porterville, CA
$365K
Rapid City, SD
$350K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

First Nations Development Institute31 shared recipientsAssociation of Tribal Archives Libraries & Museums9 shared recipientsNational Foundation for the Centers for7 shared recipientsArizona Community Foundation7 shared recipientsInatai Foundation6 shared recipientsNational Fish and Wildlife Foundation5 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $25,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Arizona.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from National Indian Health Board's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 24 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 7 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 50 F Street Nw 600, Washington, DC, 20001.

EIN 23-7226316 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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