NATIVE-LED NONPROFIT LIST
Find a Native-led charitable nonprofit to support!
Organizations included are Native-led, Native-serving, have U.S. charitable nonprofit status, and are eligible to receive tax-deductible charitable contributions.
183 published organizations for #GiveNative 2023 and Native Nonprofit Day 2024, with more to come! Have questions about the Focus Area, Location, and other filters? Visit the FAQ.
Native Forward Scholars Fund
Throughout our 54-year history, Native Forward has empowered over 22,000 students from over 500 Tribes in all 50 states by providing scholarship dollars, support services and impactful programming for undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees. To inspire excellence with impact, we provide a holistic approach to fully support our student’s success. Our services and programming have been proven to result in a higher success rate for Native students.
The national graduation rate for Native undergraduate students is 41%. The rate for Native Forward’s undergraduates is 69%. Our graduate students’ rate is a remarkable 95%. Native Forward will continue to be the premier national resource in funding and empowering continued generations of Native students across all sectors by meeting the unmet need of every Native student who has the desire to achieve their degree(s). Over $430 million has been invested into Native students via scholarship programs, support services and Native student-focused programming.
Native Lives Matter Coalition – No More MMIWR Great Lakes
We are Indigenous survivor led, grassroots advocacy coalition located in Twin Ports MN & WI Great Lakes area focused on:
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives.
Advocacy that promotes healing & justice, awareness leading to action, and actively address the social & environmental injustice impacting Indigenous, Tribal Peoples on Turtle Island
We stand in support and advocate with MMIW, MMWR families and victims of violence.
Native Public Media
Native Public Media (NPM) is a national center dedicated to serving Native licensed broadcast facilities across the nation including stations that are commercial, non-commercial educational, full power, low power, FM, AM, analog, and digital.
Native radio and television stations play a vital role in promoting the safety, sovereignty, and stability of Native communities. These broadcast facilities provide vital information upon which Tribal citizens can make informed decisions. Stations share this information through storytelling, hyperlocal news, civic engagement, and emergency communications for predominately rural and remote tribal lands. Fifty-eight Tribal radio stations, and three television stations, benefit from NPM programs in regulatory compliance, governance, technical assistance, training, policymaking, and operations development.
Native Roots Farm Foundation
Our Mission: We are reclaiming, cultivating, and celebrating Native relationships with land, plants, and community for the next Seven Generations.
Native Roots Farm Foundation (NRFF) is a Native (Nanticoke) woman-led organization, founded with a mission to celebrate Indigenous cultures and protect open spaces – in particular, those of the Nanticoke and Lenape communities – who have called Delaware and the surrounding region home since time immemorial.
Through public programming and the development of our public Hakihakàn (Lenape for garden or farm), NRFF leads innovative and impactful community programs that recognize Indigenous ecological knowledge and the important roles native plants have played in Native cultures. Our work is focused on helping reconnect Indigenous people with aspects of our heritage. Utilizing a variety of educational programs and hands-on activities, NRFF shares this knowledge with the wider community and cultivates awareness of and appreciation for the natural world.
Native Ways Federation
Our mission is to activate and expand informed giving to Native-led nonprofits in Indian Country through donor education and advocacy. We envision a thriving Native-led nonprofit sector, championing a diverse community rooted in Indigenous values and ways of being.
Founded 15 years ago by national, Native-led nonprofits, we unite and strengthen Native nonprofits through initiatives like Native Nonprofit Day and #GiveNative, advocate for and with Native nonprofits, and influence philanthropic systems change. Please note: donations to our organization are not distributed to organizations on the Native Nonprofit List or our founding organizations.
Natives in Tech
We work to craft free and open source technology that empowers Native peoples.
Navajo United Way
Our mission is to empower and support human care organizations that serve to improve the lives of the Navajo Nation and neighboring communities.
Nebraska Indian Child Welfare Coalition, Inc.
NICWC is a Native American-led not-for-profit corporation in Nebraska. Our mission is to educate, advocate and bring people together to protect Indian children’s rights, preserve their cultural connections, and ensure the Indian Child Welfare Act is respected for Nebraska children. Our vision is that all Native American children in Nebraska are raised by loving Indian families, surrounded by the people, culture and heritage they know best.
NICWC’s objectives are to 1) bring people together to (re)connect Native children with their families, communities, culture and heritage, and to listen to Native and allies’ voices to solve issues harmfully impacting Native American families collectively; 2) educate about Native American cultures, cultural compassion in action, and the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA); and, 3) advocate for the ICWA to be respected, Native children’s rights and culture to be protected, and for policies and practices that honor Native families and heritage.