Our Impact
$20M+
Moved to Native-led organizations since 2013.
Wealth traveling home, one grant cycle at a time.
334
Grassroots grantee partners
across Turtle Island. From kitchen-table efforts to national movements.
$30,000
Average grant size today,
up from under $7,000 in our first cycle.
100%
of funding decisions made by Native community reviewers.
13 years
of community-led decisions
have shown what philanthropy is still learning: that the people closest to the work know exactly where resources need to go.
61+
Community reviewers
who have held the decision-making circle.
155+
Native-led organization consultant matches
1447+
capacity building support engagements achieved
Voices from Our Circle
We view NVR not simply as a funder, but as a collaborative partner whose support has helped us achieve measurable outcomes and better serve those who rely on our work.
Keres Children's Learning Center + Indigenous Montessori Institute
Building our partnership with NVR has meant the world to us. As an Indigenous organization, it is uplifting, comforting, and encouraging to see and be supported by our peers in philanthropy.
Gichigamiin Indigenous Nations Museum
We are incredibly grateful to have been in partnership with Native Voices Rising for many years. Sustained, trust-based support has been instrumental to our growth and has allowed us to invest in long-term leadership development, research, and community-building efforts that strengthen Indigenous civic participation and public leadership.
Advance Native Political Leadership
13 Years & Still Rising
Native Voices Rising is a Native-led fund where Native people decide where pooled philanthropic dollars flow.
Our work is documented in two landmark reports: the research that called us into being and the decade of proof that followed. Both are grounded in the voices of the people who know this work best: grantee partners, community reviewers, and funders in relationship with us.
Read More About Our Medicine
Native Voices Rising: A Case for Funding Native-led Change (2013)
The research that started it all. Led by Louis T. Delgado (Oneida), this foundational study documented what Native communities have always known: that Native organizations carry enormous responsibility for their communities, lands, and rights, with strikingly little support from American philanthropy. Its findings and recommendations remain a guide for any funder ready to support Native-led change.
10 Year Impact Report (2023)
A decade in, we asked our community what NVR has meant to them. This report carries their answers. Told through the voices of grantee partners, reviewers, and funders, it shows how participatory, trust-based grantmaking moves real resources to real organizing, and it names what philanthropy must still do to be in right relationship with Native communities. The recommendations inside are an open invitation to the philanthropic field.
Part of the National Evidence Base
Native Voices Rising was the only Native-led fund among the 22 collaborative funds studied in The Collaborative Effect: Grantee Perspectives on How Collaborative Funds Work Best (2026), the most comprehensive research to date on how collaborative funds serve the organizations they exist to support. Led by ViaNova, Redstone Strategy Group, and Philanthropy Together, with support from the Hewlett Foundation, the study drew on more than 640 grantee voices to identify what makes collaborative funds build trust, shift power, and deliver impact beyond their size.
We were honored to bring Native-led participatory grantmaking into that national evidence base, and to have our grantee partners’ experiences counted among the voices shaping how philanthropy understands this work.