Form 990 for tax year 2024

Totals

Total revenue

$27,501,050

Total expenses

$23,612,441

Contributions and grants received

$26,874,658

Grants paid

$9,700,331

Program service revenue

$149,512

Investment income

$395,430

Other revenue

$81,450

Total assets, end of year

$32,958,600

Total liabilities, end of year

$1,118,152

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$31,840,448

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$16,039,330

Management and general expenses

$1,822,552

Fundraising expenses

$5,750,559

Program service expenses (Part III)

$16,039,330

Program services were 67.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2024

• HEALTH: PURPOSE OF THE PROGRAM: To support preventative care and health education initiatives of reservation programs serving Tribal citizens, and to help them motivate involvement in healthy lifestyles and community service SITUATION: A legacy of healthcare disparities and high disease rates persists across Native America. For instance, Native adults are nearly 300% more likely to have diabetes and 50% more likely to have obesity than non-Hispanic whites. Yet medical care is inadequate and limited to the Indian Health Service (I.H.S.). There are only 500 of these federally run I.H.S. clinics to serve 574 recognized tribes (less than 1 per reservation), and transportation for the long trek to them is an issue for many residents. Despite CARES Act funding, I.H.S. remains ill-situated to respond to a healthcare crisis, and 19% of Native Americans lack any form of health insurance for outside care. Thus, Tribal health and wellness programs often take the lead on preventive health care, as well as efforts to support healthier diets. PWNA RESPONSE: Through new initiatives in 2024, PWNA helped address the need for winter warmth on #GivingTuesday, raising funds to provide blankets, coats, scarves, and mittens for Native children and Elders. Meanwhile, PWNA continued supporting Tribal programs that offer preventative care, home visits, and health screenings, helping 336 health and wellness partners address diabetes at epidemic levels, obesity even for youth, tuberculosis seven times higher than for Whites, and more cancer-related disparities than any minority group in the U.S. Through these partners, we supported healthy lifestyle programs and education for approximately 47,960 people, including pre- and post-natal care, parenting and behavioral health, screenings and education for diabetes, high blood pressure, TB, cancer, and heart health, suicide awareness and prevention, immunizations, medication monitoring, and care for the homebound or others unable to access services. PWNA helped Tribal partners boost participation by providing incentive items such as soap, cleaning supplies, toilet paper, and personal hygiene kits, with the support of Tegna. In addition, 71 of these and other partners focused on adult and youth development, such as suicide prevention and language/culture preservation through community events. On the healthy nutrition front, the modern diet is detrimental - especially in the face of poverty and limited food access. Through our Train the Trainer (T3) service, PWNA conducts healthy food demonstrations and food tastings on the reservations we serve, utilizing Native chefs to ensure cultural relevance. Former T3 and 4D leadership training graduates often help us cook, serve, and conduct food demos. While T3 was inactive in 2024, we have graduated a total of 1,144 people who each have the knowledge to train others and impact 6 people with the healthier meals they prepare. We look forward to offering new cohorts going forward when grant funding is available. *DBA programs of PWNA for Health services: Southwest Reservation Aid (SWRA), Northern Plains Reservation Aid (NRPA), Navajo Relief Fund (NRF), Sioux Nation Relief Fund (SNRF) and Native American Aid (NAA ).

  Expenses $7,283,219 · Grants $4,974,690

• EMERGENCY SERVICES: PURPOSE OF THE PROGRAM: To provide winter warmth, seasonal services, shelter supplies, and disaster relief, and to support Tribal readiness to respond when disaster strikes SITUATION: With climate change driving more frequent and damaging disasters such as flooding, forest fires, blizzards, and tornadoes, PWNA is a critical first responder for the reservations. We also equip Native communities to plan, train, and respond to such events when they strike locally. Winter warmth is always a concern for the Elders, too. Homelessness is rising disproportionately among Tribal citizens. Native Americans face overcrowding 8 times more often than Whites. 40% of Native Americans live in substandard homes, and on any given night, more than 21,000 are homeless (sheltered, unsheltered). In addition, lack of access to clean drinking water is an issue. 75% of Hopi residents rely on water contaminated with arsenic, and 30% of Navajo families haul water due to 521 abandoned uranium mines. In a 2023 case, the Supreme Court ruled that "Tribes have rights to as much water as they need to establish a permanent homeland, and those rights stretch back at least as long as any given reservation has existed." Yet they ruled there is no promise or obligation on the part of the U.S. government to aid tribes in securing water access. So, while clean drinking water is a basic human right, water access remains a hardship for 48% of homes on the reservations. PWNA RESPONSE: PWNA cannot predict every emergency, so we give seasonal aid to help prepare for them. In 2024, this included year-round aid to 66 shelters for the aged, homeless, disabled, and domestic abuse victims, aiding approximately 8,549 people. We also provided firewood, coal, or winter fuel vouchers to Sisseton Wahpeton and Navajo Elders, as well as winter and/or summer emergency boxes to 26 partners on 10 reservations. These emergency kits equipped Native Elders with supplies such as blankets, batteries, candles, water, nonperishable foods, and other items helpful during winter storms, and water, sunscreen, bug spray, fire extinguishers, and other items helpful during the summer heat, storms, and outages. PWNA rotates its seasonal readiness services to different Tribal communities each year to avoid creating dependency, but the level of need suggests increasing these services as funding permits. Life on the reservation often means less access to outside aid when disaster strikes - and it struck 10 times for the Northern Cheyenne, Navajo, Mescalero Apache, and San Carlos Apache in 2024. The Watch fire on San Carlos Apache lands and the South Fork and Salt fires on Mescalero Apache lands burned more than 19,000 acres of Native lands and displaced thousands of their citizens. PWNA provided disaster relief for wildfires in 3 communities, a water shortage, a winter storm, flooding, and COVID relief in 4 communities, delivering 509,850 pounds of staple foods, bottled water, hygiene kits, diapers, blankets, PPE, and other essentials to assist about 2,750 households. PWNA also invests in emergency planning and training with Tribal communities. With support from Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies, Feeding America, and Pathward, we supported a Tribal Emergency Management Summit and facilitated training on mental health, life-saving skills, mass fatality management, First Aid/CPR, CERT, FEMA Tribal courses, and other first responder skills. This planning and training benefited Tribal participants representing Blackfeet, Cheyenne River, Crow, Crow Creek, Navajo, Fort Peck, Lower Brule, Northern Cheyenne, Omaha, Pine Ridge, Rosebud, Santee, Lake Traverse, Standing Rock, Winnebago, Yakima, and Yankton reservations in the Northern Plains and Fort Apache, Kaibab, Quechan, and San Carlos reservations in the Southwest. With additional support from Feeding America, PWNA extended their support of the Natives Prepared project as the Sisseton Wahpeton and Hualapai initiated their implementation of food access and preparedness plans developed in the 2023 phase. AT&T also assisted with cots for the Mescalero wildfire response. Altogether, 479 Tribal citizens across 23 reservations trained and/or engaged around disaster readiness in 2024. *DBA programs of PWNA for Emergency services: Southwest Reservation Aid (SWRA), Northern Plains Reservation Aid (NRPA), Southwest Indian Relief Council (SWIRC), Navajo Relief Fund (NRF), Sioux Nation Relief Fund (SNRF), and Native American Aid (NAA).

  Expenses $4,941,787 · Grants $2,871,797

• HOLIDAY: PURPOSE OF THE PROGRAM: To help our reservation partners spread community cheer, engagement, and active involvement at times when families may be experiencing more disenfranchisement and seasonal stress SITUATION: The holidays can be an extra hardship for Native families in our service area. The Elders and children on the reservations PWNA serves are certainly aware of holidays celebrated across the U.S., but so often, families cannot afford holiday gifts or celebrations. Native child poverty rates have consistently exceeded 40% for the past 30 years. In fact, compared to Whites, Native children are over three times as likely to experience deep poverty. About half of Native grandparents are raising grandchildren while living on social security - and Native joblessness is twice that of Whites. The overall rate of impoverishment across the hundreds of Tribal communities PWNA serves ranges from 15% to 54%. PWNA RESPONSE: Happy holidays contribute to overall well-being. During the 2024 holidays, PWNA helped program partners spread holiday cheer by delivering stockings and holiday gift bags filled with practical items. These gifts delighted 15,170 children and Elders across 15 reservations in the Northern Plains and 11 reservations in the Southwest. *DBA programs of PWNA for Holiday support: Southwest Reservation Aid (SWRA), Northern Plains Reservation Aid (NRPA), Southwest Indian Relief Council (SWIRC), Sioux Nation Relief Fund (SNRF), and Native American Aid (NAA ).

  Expenses $1,384,019 · Grants $885,013

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

• 12 HILLS DOG RESCUE

  $10,000

  FUNDING FOR BEHAVIOR TRAINING TO HELP "UNADOPTABLE" DOGS BECOME ADOPTABLE AND FOR SUPPLIES TO MAINTAIN KENNEL CLEANLINESS AND COMFORT

• LAKE TRAVERSE ANIMAL REZCUE

  $10,000

  FUNDING FOR BEHAVIOR TRAINING TO HELP "UNADOPTABLE" DOGS BECOME ADOPTABLE AND FOR SUPPLIES TO MAINTAIN KENNEL CLEANLINESS AND COMFORT

• BRO AND TRACY ANIMAL WELFARE

  $10,000

  FUNDING FOR SPAY AND NEUTER ASSISTANCE PROJECT

• ROSEBUD SIOUX TRIBE ANIMAL CLINIC

  $10,000

  FUNDING FOR SPAY AND NEUTER CLINIC

• TUBA CITY HUMANE SOCIETY INCORPORATED

  $5,000

  FUNDING FOR BEHAVIOR TRAINING TO HELP "UNADOPTABLE" DOGS BECOME ADOPTABLE AND FOR SUPPLIES TO MAINTAIN KENNEL CLEANLINESS AND COMFORT

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2024

Filed

19 August 2025

IRS schema version

2024v5.1

Source object

202522319349300822

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