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
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.