Native American Philanthropy

This list is largely from A Demographic Profile of Independently Incorporated Native American Foundations and Selected Funds in the United States prepared by Louis T. Delgado and the Center for Urban Research & Learning, Loyola University of Chicago and published by Native Americans in Philanthropy.

Corporate Foundations

• The Aleut Foundation
• Arctic Education Foundation
• The CIRI Foundation
• The Doyon Foundation
• Bristol Bay Native Corp. Education Foundation
• Chugach Heritage Foundation
• Huna Heritage Foundation
• Koniag Education Foundation
• Sitnasuak Foundation
• The 13th Regional Heritage Foundation

Community Foundations

• Bering Straits Foundation
• Cherokee National Education Corporation
• Cherokee Preservation Foundation
• Chickasaw Foundation
• The Hopi Foundation / Lomasumi'nangwtukwsiwmani
• Humboldt Area Foundation
• Laguna Education Foundation
• Navajo Way, Inc.
• Robert Aqqaluk Newlin, Sr. Memorial Trust

Public Foundations

• American Indian Heritage Foundation
• Catching the Dream
• First Nations Development Institute
• First Peoples Fund
• Indian land Tenure Foundation
• Ingrid Washinawatok El Issa Flying Woman Eagle Fund, Peace, Justice, Sovereignty
• Potlatch Fund
• The Pretty Shield Foundation
• Seventh Generation Fund for Indian Development Inc.
• The Solidarity Foundation, Inc.
  310 W. 52nd St.
  NY, NY, 10019
  (212) 765-9510
  
  
  
• Spirit of Sovereignty Scholarship Foundation

Family Foundations

• Keluche-Fuller Foundation

Independent Foundations

• Foundation for the American Indian
• Helen Gough Foundation Trust
  Helen Gough Scholarship Foundation
  PO Box 69
  Stanley, ND
  (701) 628-2955
  
  
  
  

Operating Foundations

• George Bird Grinnell American Indian Children's Fund
• Gibson Foundation
  400 Hualani Street, Suite 194
  Hilo, HA 96720
  (808) 961-2888
  
  
  
• Nihewan Foundation
• Sacred Mountains Foundation

Scholarship Foundations

• Ahtna Heritage Foundation
• American Indian Graduate Center Inc.
• American Indian Graduate Center Scholars
• Calista Scholarship Fund
• CERT Education Fund, Inc.

Tribal Funds

• Coquille Tribal Community Fund
• Cow Creek Umpqua Indian Foundation
• Forest Country Potawatomi Community Foundation
• Hopi Education Endowment Fund
• Rumsey Community Fund
• Spirit Mountain Community Fund
• The Tulalip Tribes Charitable Fund
• United Auburn Indian Community Giving Program
• Wildhorse Foundation