- Revenue 2024
- $1,623,093
- Expenses 2024
- $2,180,936
Program services were 92.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- T12
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 120 W THAYER AVE
These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).
Other organizations at this address
1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us
We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.
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NATIVE AGRICULTURE EDUCATION FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
EIN 87-3020287
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
To advance Native food security to strengthen Tribal sovereignty through advancements in agricultural infrastructure by utilizing transformative mission investment strategies.
Activities or mission (Part I)
Sovereign Equity Fund (SEF) provides grants to eligible entities to provide assistance and services to improve the social, environmental, health, and economic development opportunities of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians. The goal is to advance Native food security to strengthen Tribal sovereignty through advancements in agricultural infrastructure by utilizing transformative mission investment strategies.
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Providing donations, gifts, grants, contributions, loans, guarantees, or subsidies to support American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians.
Expenses $2,017,634 · Grants $1,941,517
As filed on the 2024 return.
Officers and directors · 2024
As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
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JoAnn Kauffman
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $2,000
- From this org
- $2,000
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Justin Wilson
President
- Total calculated
- $2,000
- From this org
- $2,000
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Richard Luarkie
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $2,000
- From this org
- $2,000
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Christy Walker
Controller
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 10
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Courtney Chavis
Executive Director
- Total calculated
- $100,000
- From this org
- $100,000
- 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
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2024
- Revenue
- $1,623,093
- Expenses
- $2,180,936
- Contributions
- $1,623,093
- Grants paid
- $1,941,517
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2023
- Revenue
- $3,368,170
- Expenses
- $1,506,056
- Contributions
- $3,368,170
- Grants paid
- $1,468,170
The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.
Grants made
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$290,000
2023 1) The project aims to increase access to food and cultural opportunities within the communities by providing workshops and resources on traditional skills. 2) The project focuses on vegetable production, providing produce and advertising for a farmers' market, and horsemanship opportunities.
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$200,000
2023 The project aims to weave together food, material, and spiritual culture through workshops.
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$200,000
2023 The project synthesizes both traditional and modern practices to revitalize cultural foodways in their communities.
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Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe University
$200,000
2023 The project is designed to foster 10 new traditional Anishinaabe harvesters in their communtiy.
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$200,000
2023 The project focuses on gathering original seeds to the area and traditional ricing, ice fishing, sugar maple camps, and food foraging.
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$200,000
2023 The project aims to create a demonstration of how healthy food systems are established using three families each year.
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$100,000
2024 Food Sovereignty / Cultural Foodways Initiative
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$100,000
2024 Food Sovereignty / Cultural Foodways Initiative
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2024 Food Sovereignty / Cultural Foodways Initiative
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Nebraska Indian Community College (NICC)
$100,000
2024 Food Sovereignty / Cultural Foodways Initiative
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
Grants received
No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.
Other IRS files
Auto-Revocation List
Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.
Publication 78
Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.
These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.
What this page reflects
The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.