Form 990 for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$1,653,117

Total expenses

$1,742,169

Contributions and grants received

$1,626,172

Grants paid

$74,825

Program service revenue

$20,902

Investment income

$4,393

Other revenue

$1,650

Total assets, end of year

$2,843,025

Total liabilities, end of year

$337,317

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$2,505,708

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$1,257,928

Management and general expenses

$400,106

Fundraising expenses

$84,135

Program service expenses (Part III)

$1,257,928

Program services were 72.2% 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 · 2023

• NACDI's Four Sisters Food Sovereignty programs are connecting neighborhood residents by rebuilding our relationship with the living world. Our work is guided by the community and the engagement in the practices that sustain us physically and culturally. We break the cycles of trauma and social isolation set into motion by the disruption of our traditional ways by rebuilding Indigenous food knowledge and pursuing equitable food systems. Our goal with Four Sisters is to restore health and well-being in the Urban Indian and Phillips communities by recovering knowledge and access to Indigenous food, medicine, and traditions. The Four Sisters programs are creating a more inclusive, welcoming, and accessible ecosystem in this racially and culturally diverse neighborhood. This project will greatly benefit the surrounding neighborhood by bringing together community members, improving healthy food access, and celebrating Indigenous heritage and culture. Four Sisters Urban Farm, through skills training and community gatherings, will seed opportunities to grow fresh and healthy food and heal land, bodies, and spirits.

  Expenses $638,991 · Grants $5,790 · Revenue $5,654

• All My Relations Arts (AMRA) continues to bring the highest quality of contemporary Native artists working today to our gallery. Exploring topics of sovereignty, family systems, and the living world, AMRA artists challenge the notion of what it means to be Indigenous in the modern world. AMRA began its second cohort of the Native Authors Program, a program designed to expand the careers and representation of Native writers while supporting their growth in practice. Under the program facilitator and mentorship of Art Coulson (Cherokee), authors will engage in the development of their craft. We also began the second cohort of We Are Still Here, a multiyear collaborative partnership between NACDI and Hennepin Theatre Trust, which brings large-scale, high-profile public artworks to the Hennepin Theatre District and the American Indian Culture Corridor. Paired with mural artist, mentor Thomasina TopBear, this cohort is learning the techniques of mural creation to expand their mediums to a highly visible public art environment.

  Expenses $365,098 · Grants $43,475 · Revenue $15,248

• Make Voting A Tradition (MVAT) is a culturally specific, year-round, multi-generational approach to increase voter turnout and civic engagement now in its eighth year of operation. The fundamental principle of MVAT is that Native Americans are more likely to become more politically active when engaged by peers. By utilizing MVAT's statewide and national profile, the project continues to establish and nurture relationships that will strengthen the voices of individuals to create access and influence in elections. Now, in partnership with Minnesota Voice, MVAT is spearheading a first of its kind Statewide Native Table focusing on civic engagement and voter mobilization.The goal of the Native Table is to create a network of Indigenous people and organizations throughout the state including rural and Tribal Nations to build collective civic engagement power for Native people of Minnesota.

  Expenses $253,839 · Grants $25,560

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

• Sam Olbekson

  Chair

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  2

• Christine McDonald

  Secretary

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  2

• Deanna Standing Cloud

  Treasurer

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  2

• Peter McLaughlin

  Director

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  2

• Mihailo Temali

  Director

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  2

• Brooke LaFloe

  Director

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  2

• Linda Eagle Speaker

  Director

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  2

• Robert Lilligren

  President/CEO

  Total calculated

  $129,764

  From this org

  $124,709

  From related orgs

  $0

  Other

  $5,055

  Hours/week

  40

• Ed Minnema

  Chief Operating Officer

  Total calculated

  $107,067

  From this org

  $107,067

  From related orgs

  $0

  Other

  $0

  Hours/week

  40

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.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Taxable family on this return

Schedule R Parts I, III and IV, as filed. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money moved.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2023

Filed

6 November 2024

IRS schema version

2023v5.1

Source object

202443129349301034

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