Form 990 for tax year 2022

Totals

Total revenue

$13,666,990

Total expenses

$8,080,261

Contributions and grants received

$12,714,574

Grants paid

$2,640,020

Program service revenue

$924,398

Investment income

$28,018

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$14,738,132

Total liabilities, end of year

$1,101,820

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$13,636,312

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$6,053,739

Management and general expenses

$1,298,067

Fundraising expenses

$728,455

Program service expenses (Part III)

$6,053,739

Program services were 74.9% 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 · 2022

• Funder Education, Training, and Engagement:Native Youth GrantmakersThe Native Youth Grantmakers program is designed for Indigenous youth aged 18-24 who are connected to their community (urban, rural, or reservation) and want to grow their leadership skills, advocate for Native youth and youth programs, and learn more about the philanthropic sector. This program is a year-long course designed to be both in-person and virtual and embraces Indigenous values that can help create conditions for all communities to thrive. The NAP team will work closely with program participants to help cultivate and nurture their strengths and connect them to key Indigenous leaders in the philanthropy sector. Program Objectives:- Increasing knowledge of philanthropy- Strengthening leadership and advocacy skills- Developing and coordinating effective grantmaking strategies- Encouraging dialogue between Native youth and Mentors to learn from one another- Creating a space to develop meaningful relationships in philanthropy and communityActivities during the 2022-2023 year included meetings with congressional offices and committees, engaging with various tribal communities to learn more about how the philanthropic sector can better serve them through their perspectives, participating in self-reflection and awareness trainings to help us understand how to show up as leaders and for ourselves, meeting with various PSOs, learning about the way other orgs are working towards a more equitable philanthropic sector and meeting with Indigenous led NGOs and NVR grantees.Indigenous Philanthropic Professionals Working GroupNAP connects Native people working in philanthropy, provides targeted resources, and supports growth as an individual and community member. Circle of Leadership Academy Program (CoLA)This program is for early to mid-career Native professionals who want to move into philanthropic leadership. Philanthropic leadership includes executive, board, and trustee leaders of large and small foundations, community and family foundations, as well as Native-led and tribal foundations. The goal of the program is to identify, support, and build Indigenous models of leadership within the philanthropic sector by increasing the number of Native professionals in executive, board, and trustee leadership positions, while also creating a supportive ecosystem for Native leaders that reinforces cultural identity and Indigenous worldviews. The format of this program includes network meetings, mentorship, and professional development workshops.Tribal Philanthropy CoalitionThe Tribal Philanthropy Coalition is a community of practice to support, connect, and elevate the work of Tribal professionals working in the areas of grant making, grant seeking, and philanthropy for their Tribe. Tribal Leaders, Tribal philanthropy professionals, Tribal grant writers, Tribal Directors/managers and/or Tribal planners are encouraged to join this coalition to network with other professionals doing similar work, learn from others, share your priorities, challenges, needs and develop strategies together to elevate Tribal philanthropy to support Native communities. Native Voices RisingNative Voices Rising is a research, donor education, re-granting, and capacity-building collaborative created and led by Common Counsel Foundation and Native Americans in Philanthropy. Native Voices Rising is designed to support organizing, advocacy and civic engagement in American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian communities.Since its inception in 2013, Native Voices Rising has awarded over $9 million general operating support grants to Native-led organizations. Eligible organizations are rooted in a Native community, led by Native people, hold a vision for change that improves the lives of Native community members, engage the community to take action together and/or seek to affect the policies and rules that govern the community.Native Voices Rising serves as a mechanism to build broad-based philanthropic support for grassroots groups led by and for Native communities and to amplify Native voices elevating indigenous solutions to historic harms and society's most pressing issues.In 2021, NVR launched its inaugural Advisory Council, composed of nine Native leaders, with deep experience around philanthropy and grassroots Native nonprofits. Advisory Council members serve as thought partners around NVR's strategy, programming, and organizational development.

  Expenses $4,679,259 · Grants $1,564,587 · Revenue $924,398

• The Tribal Nations Initiative (TNI) was launched in 2021. TNI is a new national platform for Tribal leaders and their staff to strategically engage with the philanthropic sector around their priorities as Tribal Nations. NAP recently completed a national listening tour where it co-hosted regional listening sessions with different tribes across the country and invited Native-led nonprofits and funders to participate in the dialogue. The goal was to better understand how philanthropy can strengthen support for Tribal priorities and identify opportunities to build infrastructure for Tribal philanthropy. A report has been published outlining what was learned from this listening tour, including a rich set of qualitative and quantitative data that will guide philanthropy in their work with Tribes. Tribal Nations Climate and Conservation Funding Collaborative (the Collaborative)In partnership with the Biodiversity Funders Group (BFG), the Collaborative is a cross-sector partnership with Tribes that seeks to strategically connect philanthropic investments with Native-led technical assistance, and federal coordination, to support Tribes in their conservation and nature-based climate projects. It consists of a pooled fund, a philanthropic pledge, a funder learning community, and federal coordination facilitated through NAP's new MOU with the Department of Interior (DOI) to stand up the Office of Strategic Partnerships. A soft-launch of the Collaborative occurred in November 2022 at BFG's federal policy meeting and formally announced in conjunction with the White House Tribal Nations Summit. Since the launch, funding for conservation related work has been raised. We signed an MOU with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) to guarantee match funding for all Tribal applicants to the new America the Beautiful Challenge (ATBC) using our Tribal Nations Initiative fund. Additionally, we provided joint technical assistance with our nonprofit and government partners. The overarching goal is to advance existing landscape conservation plans and/or propose to knit together a diverse stakeholder partnership that develops and/or implements new conservation plans. As part of this, projects should address priority species and/or habitat conservation actions identified in existing plans or other species recovery or conservation plans. Projects that are informed by Indigenous Knowledge (IK) and promote Tribal co-stewardship are also encouraged.NAP continued its efforts in funder education through its quarterly learning series with the Biodiversity Funders Group, which serves as a new space for funders to learn about strategies and opportunities in Tribal conservation from the field. NAP is currently in the second phase of this initiative, which is focused on building the organization's internal capacity to support the programming within the collaborative, strengthen public-private partnerships, and partner pledges. Through this opportunity, vetted projects can be aligned with organizations seeking ways to advance conservation and make long term commitments direct with Tribes while supporting the critical work of NAP.

  Expenses $1,036,062 · Grants $1,075,433

• Research & Data play a key role in philanthropy, often determining who receives funding and whether certain programs are considered successful. NAP is a hub for Indigenous leadership in philanthropic data and advocates for more accurate and timely data on Indigenous communities and the decolonization of research practices.Current Activities:- Contributed to the CHANGE coalition DAPP report for 2022 - 2023.- Designed a supplement to the DAPP report titled the Indigenous Philanthropic Professionals Report in which we analyzed national demographic data derived from the DAPP report with a qualitative component of quotes from Indigenous professionals in the sector. - Contributed to the Native Voices Rising report with authorship and analyses of qualitative data sets. - Initiated, managed, and authored a study and report on assessing factors of accountability between community foundations and Native communities. - Designing and managing a "Funding for Native Arts, Artists, and Culture" initiative to include a brainstorming session with Native arts and culture organizations at the Association for Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums (ATALM) 2023 conference.

  Expenses $338,418

• Tribal Nations Initiative:The Tribal Nations Initiative (TNI) was launched in 2021. TNI is a new national platform for Tribal leaders and their staff to strategically engage with the philanthropic sector around their priorities as Tribal Nations. NAP recently completed a national listening tour where it co-hosted regional listening sessions with different tribes across the country and invited Native-led nonprofits and funders to participate in the dialogue. The goal was to better understand how philanthropy can strengthen support for Tribal priorities and identify opportunities to build infrastructure for Tribal philanthropy. A report has been published outlining what was learned from this listening tour, including a rich set of qualitative and quantitative data that will guide philanthropy in their work with Tribes.

As filed on the 2022 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

• Common Counsel Foundation

  $1,100,000

  Capacity Building and Native Voices Rising Program Grants

• National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

  $825,433

  Conservation

• Alliance for Tribal Clean Energy

  $364,587

  Regranting

• USET Sovereignty Protection Fund

  $250,000

  Education/General Operating Support

• Cheyenne River Youth Project

  $50,000

  Youth Programming

• Laguna Community Foundation

  $50,000

  Youth Programming

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2022

Filed

17 November 2023

IRS schema version

2022v5.0

Source object

202303219349300820

Check it against the return as filed: the GivingTuesday Data Lake hosts a public copy of the original XML.

The source document this was parsed from is served over the API, which is where bulk and document access live.