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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The Kwek Society
The Kwek Society works to end period poverty in Indigenous communities in the United States while celebrating individual dignity, agency, and success. We provide Indigenous students and their peers, as well as certain Indigenous communities, period care items, including our moon time bags filled with supplies. We curate and share widely period education materials and traditional Indigenous teachings about periods that center menstruators. And we work to shine a light on the inequities experienced by those we help.
The Lyndon Foundation
The Lyndon Foundation aims to preserve the traditional skill of Navajo silversmithing by empowering the next generation of artisans. With the art of Navajo silversmithing dying out, it is crucial to create pathways to transfer the knowledge of silversmithing to future generations of Native artisans. The foundation was founded by Lyndon Tsosie, an award-winning Silversmith artisan with over 30 years of experience. By preserving the art of silversmithing the foundation aims to keep a heritage alive and strengthen the community.
The Queer SOL Collective, Inc
The Queer Sol Collective is dedicated to activating emergence within the 2SLGBTQIA+ community through the art and practice of re-indigenization and queer embodiment. Our movement is centered in fostering relationships through community engagement and bridge building by cultivating our individual and collective emotional connections between individuals and The Land; reclaiming a wholistic understanding of nature that includes everything, including us. We are headquartered in contemporary San Diego, California, headquartered on the sovereign land of the San Pasqual Band of Kumeyaay Indians.
Tiwahe Foundation
Tiwahe creates pathways for American Indian people to reach their own goals, on their own terms, in this critical moment for defining how Native cultures, languages, and ways of being will live and grow in the coming generations.
We do this through our flagship micro-granting program (AIFEP), and through our Oyate Leadership Network (OLN), a network weaving and leadership development program that centers the cultural needs of our Indigenous leaders in Minnesota.
OLN is a source of community healing through culture and language, recognizing that reciprocal, mutualistic relationships and traditional ways of knowing are critical tools for rebuilding pathways of community care.
Tomaquag Museum
Tomaquag Museum is Rhode Island’s only Indigenous-led Museum, a successful non-profit, and one of the only Museums in RI to earn an IMLS award. Their staff and Board work hard to share their lived Indigenous history and cultural knowledge from a unique, first-person perspective for the education and benefit of all. Their Indigenous Empowerment Center serves the Indigenous Community by providing educational programs, internship and fellowship opportunities and networks for artists and performers and more.
Tribal Education Departments National Assembly
TEDNA assists Tribal Education Departments with creating more comprehensive and culturally responsive educational systems. We represent Tribal Nations across the United States, and support the right of TEDs to reclaim their sovereignty by defining and achieving their own educational goals in order to better serve Indigenous students. We are supported by the Native American Rights Fund and the US Department of Education’s Office of Indian Education.
Tuscarora Nation of North Carolina (TNNC)
The Tuscarora Nation of North Carolina (TNNC) is composed of enrolled members of the Tuscarora Nation that survived Indian Removal by hiding in and around the Swamps of Robeson County. This organizations aids in helping to clearly represent the Tuscarora Nation by clarifying the misconceptions caused by colonization and assimilation. Although the Tuscarora remain, the effects left by Colonization continues to place barriers to adequate resources from the Tuscarora communities. The organization presents resources to combat food insecurities, increase traditional food practices, increase cultural awareness, and help represent the Tuscarora in educational and contemporary settings.
Donate by Mail: PO Box 364, Maxton, NC, 28364Tutskwat Oqawtoynani
Founded in 2016, Tutskwat Oqawtoynani (helping the Earth to gather her strength) has been working to clean First Mesa from top to bottom. Located in the northeast corner of Arizona, Tutskwat Oqawtoynani directly impacts over 1,985 Hopi and Tewa members who live on or around First Mesa. The three Hopi villages Tewa, Sichomovi, and Walpi on top of First Mesa, have been needing protection from illegal dumping where sacred ceremonies take place.
Influences from the outside world and historical trauma have since changed our value system. It is time to remember that Hopi are stewards of the lands, caretakers of humanity. To date we have removed an estimated 85 tons of trash in less than a quarter mile behind, below our mesa, leading with the vision, through discipline and responsibility we will preserve the sacredness of our Tewa and Hopi Villages. Upholding our promise to protect and ensure that humanity enjoys peace and prosperity, while creating a space for healing and recovery.