A Territory Resource supports community-based organizations in WA, OR, ID, MT, and WY that work to promote social justice, stewardship of resources, and equity for all. ATR funds across issue areas, including the arts, and provides some limited technical assistance support. The range of grants is $1,000 - $25,000.

Incorporated as a grantmaking foundation in 1992, this Native organization has yet to begin distributing funds.

The Commonwealth Fund is a New York City-based national foundation, engaging in independent research on health and social policy issues. The Fund's program areas include: Improving Health Care Services; Bettering the Health of Minority Americans; and Advancing the Well-Being of Elderly People.

The CIRI Foundation, one of the few Native foundations with an endowment, has grown to more than $3 million. The Foundation promotes individual self-development, economic self-sufficiency, and pride in culture and heritage among Alaska Native members of the Cook Inlet Region. CIRI provides a multitude of scholarship and grantmaking programs, and has two special programs, the Cultural Heritage Project Development & Grant Program and the Lawrence Matson Memorial Fund.

CERT, a multi-tribal organization of 53 American Indian tribes and 4 Canadian Indian nations, provides managerial and technical resources to complement and strengthen existing expertise and to support the sustained development of the tribe's human resource potential. Total grantmaking is approximately $50,000 per year.

The Doyon Foundation, funded by the Doyon Ltd. Alaska Native Corporation, serves as an educational and cultural resource for its people. Its total grantmaking per year is approximately $200,000.

The mission of First Nations is to assist Native peoples, organizations and tribes to develop their economies from within by increasing and strengthening Native peoples' capacity to create, design and launch their own sustainable economic development strategies, programs and projects according to traditional values and indigenous knowledge. The Institute publishes the "Indian Giver". The Eagle Staff Fund, the main funding mechanism of First Nations, provides grants and technical assistance to culturally appropriate and sustainable development projects. The Fund has four types of grants: seed grants between $1500 to $5000; start-up grants ($10,000-$30,000); multi-year working capital grants ($125,000-$200,000); and multi-year development capital grant ($300,000). Total grantmaking in 1994 was $1,100,000.

Native Americans in Philanthropy lists the Ford Foundation as the largest grantmaker to charities run by American Indians and the second largest grantmaker to other charities that aid American Indians. The Foundation's total program budget for 1994-95 totaled more than $670 million. The Foundation provides grants across many issue areas, including urban and rural poverty and resources, and education and culture.

The Hopi Foundation, established in 1987, provides educational, development, and technical assistance to members of the Hopi and other Indian nations. Among its projects has been providing solar power to parts of the Hopi and Navajo reservations. It works in cultural restoration and creating educational materials which discuss cultural restoration. It’s annual income is approximately $450,000.

IPOLA works with indigenous people of the Western Hemisphere to preserve and perpetuate their languages. IPOLA works with communities to create, fund and implement language education programs. In addition, the Institute maintains a resource library, has created public awareness campaigns, and works with academic programs to keep languages alive. The Institute is small, with an average yearly income of about $125,000. Its grantmaking component at present is negligible, however, it plans to expand this component.

The RWJ Foundation is the nation's largest health care philanthropy, granting over $160 million/ year to improve the health and health care. The Foundation's goals include assuring that all Americans have access to basic health care, reducing harm caused by substance abuse tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drugs, improving services to people with chronic health conditions, and helping address escalating health care expenditures. It publishes and distributes widely its calls for proposals and national program announcements that provide eligibility criteria and application guidelines for these programs. Under certain circumstances, the Foundation makes program-related investments to organizations, either in addition to or as an alternative to a grant. Further information about the Foundation can be found in its quarterly newsletter, "Advances", annual report, and other publications.

The Foundation is concerned with the application of knowledge to solving the problems of people. The Foundation's areas of interest include "Community-Based Health Services" - supporting initiatives to help communities identify and find quality, cost-effective solutions to their specific health needs; and "Food Systems" - to help meet needs for an adequate and nutritious diet while ensuring that food production systems are environmentally sensitive and sustainable. Native Americans in Philanthropy lists the Kellogg Foundation as one of the largest grantmakers to charities run by American Indian and to other charities that aid American Indians, funding over $10 million to such programs (1991-93).

The Foundation is a national grant project limited to urgent needs of rural Native American communities. Priority given to indigenous projects for education, revival, and preservation of language and culture, legal rights, environmental protection, and economic development.

The Michigan Native American Foundation is the first and only intertribal foundation in the country. The participating tribes are seven of the ten that are currently recognized in the state. The Foundation was begun with a $150,000 grant by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and a pledge of $300,000 by the participating tribes. The Foundation has yet to begin its grantmaking, though it will specialize in community (health and human) services, programs for the youth and elderly, and preserving culture and traditions.

The Foundation, originally incorporated as a gift and giving organization in 1986, and is now primarily an advocate for the cultural fights of Native Americans. The Foundation sponsored the 1992 Alliance to assure an American Indian voice to the celebrations that were being planned for the 1992 Columbus Quincentenary. It’s yearly income is $40,000.

Health promotion is one of the Fund's primary areas of interest. Grants are awarded to projects focusing on the health issues of low income sectors of the population. The Funds current interests in health are: the intersection of hunger, nutrition, and poverty; public policy changes to benefit low income and minority groups; and societal violence as a public health problem. Average gram size ranges from $5,000 - $25,000.

Created to encourage creation, production, promotion, and distribution of quality programming by, for and about Native Americans, the Native American Public Broadcasting consortium maintains a large library on Native oriented films. It bestows awards, provides assistance for Native f'ilm makers, and co-produces a number of Native films every year.

Navajo Way, an affiliate of United Way, was formed in 1980 to expand the capacities of human care agencies serving the needs of the Navajo Nation. It provides supports to local, non-profit agencies in the areas of: Women and Family Services; Youth/Character Building Services; Aged-Elder Care Services; Emergency/Special Health Care Needs; Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention; and slightly over $200,000 annually, in grants averaging more than $10,000 apiece.

The mission of the Foundation is to contribute to the vitality of an eight-state region by promoting economic revitalization and improving the standard of living for the region's most vulnerable citizens. The Foundation accepts proposals from groups located and conducts activities in: MN, IA, ND, SD, MT, ID, WA, and OR. Grants range from $10, 000 - $300,000.

The Foundation supports organizations that provide services to disadvantaged populations and work for lasting improvements in the delivery of services that meet basic human needs. Areas of interest include disadvantaged elderly and health programs. Grants typically range from $1,000 to $250,000.

Founded in 1977, the Seventh Generation Fund supports Native grassroots people in their self-help efforts to rebuild culturally and ecological sustainable communities. It publishes "Native Self-Sufficiency". The Fund provides grants in the following areas: Native Community and Economic Renewal, Native American Environmental Initiative, American Indian Religious Freedom, and the Inter-continental Indigenous People's Agenda. Its total grantmaking is approximately $370,000 per year, with grants averaging about $4,000.

Established in 1987, the Solidarity Foundation is a Native research organization built on the principle that information is a crucial tool for the success of American Indian struggles. The Foundation was established at the behest of Native organizations, such as the National Congress of American Indians, and communities, such as the Iroquois Confederacy. It provides information, research, technological assistance, and planning services free of charge to Native peoples across the hemisphere. The Foundation has a small grantmaking component that averages $10,000 in grants per year, geared mostly to New York City community projects.