Foundation Center - Press Release - Foundation Funding for U.S. Indigenous Peoples in Decline

Foundation Center - Press Release - Foundation Funding for U.S. Indigenous Peoples in Decline: "Foundation Funding for U.S. Indigenous Peoples in Decline

Minneapolis, MN — May 3, 2011. Over the past decade, U.S. foundation support explicitly benefiting Native Americans declined from 0.5 percent to 0.3 percent of total foundation giving. According to Foundation Funding for Native American Issues and Peoples, released today by Native Americans in Philanthropy (NAP) and the Foundation Center, total grant dollars targeting Native Americans dropped 30.8 percent in the latest year, compared to a 12.4 percent overall downturn in foundation giving. Although the number of foundation grants benefiting Native Americans remained far more consistent during much of this period, the number of grants still declined more than 10 percent from 2008 to 2009."