NATIVE-LED NONPROFIT LIST
Find a Native-led, Native-serving nonprofit to support! Organizations included are eligible to receive tax-deductible, charitable contributions in the U.S.
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Aloha Kuamoo Aina
Aloha Kuamo‘o ‘Āina is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded by the Beamer ʻOhana to steward the lands and waters of Kuamoʻo, an ancestral wahi pana in the Kona moku on the island of Hawaiʻi.
AKA is a Hawai‘i center for cultural and ecological peace, with a mission to promote aloha ‘āina as consistent with the mo‘olelo and values of Kuamo‘o to achieve justice and peace for Hawai‘i’s people, environment, and the world.
Alutiiq Heritage Foundation (Alutiiq Museum)
The Alutiiq Museum in celebrates the heritage and living culture of the Alutiiq/Sugpiaq people of southern coastal Alaska. Based in Kodiak, we also serve the rural villages of the Kodiak archipelago and members of the Alutiiq diaspora across the globe. Our nationally-accredited museum has programs in cultural and language education, Native arts advocacy, collections research, and community-based archaeology. We serve as a regional repatriation coordinator to help our partner tribes bring ancestors home for reburial, and advocate to protect cultural sites.
Amah Mutsun Land Trust
Amah Mutsun Land Trust is a non-profit organization formed by the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, a non-federally recognized California Indian Tribe, to achieve the following vision:
-Conserve and restore Indigenous cultural and natural resources within the traditional territories of Indigenous Mutsun and Awaswas peoples.
-Steward our lands and waters; combining traditional resource and environmental management with contemporary approaches–ensuring a resilient future for all inhabitants of Popeloutchom and fulfilling our obligation to Creator.
-Research and teach the ways of nature—returning to the path of traditional ecological knowledge that our ancestors followed for thousands of years.
American Indian Association of Illinois
The American Indian Association of Illinois (AIAI) is a 16-year-old, urban based, Native led, Native serving,non-profit organization, dedicated to transforming American Indian communities through art, culture, education, social justice, advocacy, research, economic development, and education, founded in values grounded in Native culture, language, and history, fused with traditional Native knowledge, designed as a model to enhance all urban Native communities.
American Indian Cancer Foundation
The American Indian Cancer Foundation (AICAF) is a national Native-led and Native-governed non-profit organization established to address the tremendous cancer burdens faced by Native people. AICAF strives to be a partner trusted by tribes and organizations, working toward effective and sustainable cancer solutions based on cultural teachings and wisdom.
AICAF works to eliminate the cancer burdens of American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) people through improved access to prevention, early detection, treatment, and survivor support.
Through hard work, culturally appropriate community-based programs and policy change that affords Native people access to the best prevention and treatment strategies, we see a day where American Indian communities are free of the burdens of cancer.
American Indian Chamber Education Fund
The American Indian Chamber Education Fund (AICEF) was founded in 2006 to provide a vehicle to support the economic capacity building of tribes, tribal enterprises and Native American owned businesses. We provide an organization operated and managed by tribal leaders, successful Native American business people and out partners who are committed to the economic self-sufficiency of Indian Country. Highlighted by out Jr. American Indian Chamber Youth programs and out ability to provide one of the largest technical systems for tribes, tribal enterprises, Alaska Native Corporations and Native American owned businesses, we provide real-life, pragmatic solutions for our community.
American Indian College Fund
The American Indian College Fund invests in Native students and tribal college education to transform lives and communities. Since its founding in 1989, the American Indian College Fund has been the nation’s largest charity supporting Native student access to higher education. We provide scholarships and programming for American Indian and Alaska Native students to access higher education. And once students are in college, we provide them with the tools and support to succeed.
American Indian Community Center Association
Mission Statement
The American Indian Community Center’s mission is to provide comprehensive social and economic development services for all racial groups in our community – encouraging individual and family self-sufficiency – protecting and preserving the cultures and traditions of Indian people.
Welcome statement.
The American Indian Community Center was founded in 1967 as a social gathering place for Indian and Native American people who lived in the Spokane area. Since 1967 AICC has become a comprehensive social service agency serving not only Native Americans but all other racial groups as well. AICC offers Employment and Training Services, Food Pantry, Alcohol and Drug assessment and outpatient treatment, Mental Health Counseling, and Family Services, which attempt to match programs and resources with the individual client’s needs. We also offer Indian Child Welfare services for families who are in danger of losing their children to Child Protective Services.