Native Voices Rising Partnership
Now Open: Native Voices Rising's 2025 RFP
Flexible funding for Native-led nonprofits that help advance tribal sovereignty, tribal self-determination, and thriving communities.
Partnering to Strengthen Native-Led Organizations
Magic Cabinet and Native Voices Rising are working together in a five-year, $7.5 million partnership to support Native-led nonprofits across the United States. The collaboration blends Magic Cabinet’s community-driven approach with Native Voices Rising’s community-based and culturally specific grantmaking model, strengthening Native Voices Rising’s capacity and expanding flexible funding for Native-led nonprofits.
In 2025, we are moving funding through Native Voices Rising’s existing grant process while also collaborating with Native Voices Rising to explore and co-develop future approaches that will support long-term funding for Native-led nonprofits in future years.
Our Commitment to Native-led Philanthropy
According to Native Ways Federation, just 0.25% of philanthropic dollars go to Native-led nonprofits, a stark reminder of the persistent underinvestment in Native communities. Beyond underinvestment, philanthropy has often imposed practices that undermine trust, ignore community priorities, and create unnecessary barriers for Native-led organizations.
Native leaders have called on funders to disrupt philanthropy’s status quo, amplify Native-led solutions, and harness innovation to promote Indigenous perspectives. Our collaboration with Native Voices Rising, a Native-led intermediary, is our response to that call.
Support Native Voices Rising
Native Voices Rising serves as a mechanism to build broad-based philanthropic support for grassroots groups led by and for Native communities, amplifying Native voices and elevating Indigenous solutions to historic harms and society’s most pressing issues.
We encourage funders and allies to learn from their work and invest in Native-led organizing and advocacy.
Native Voices Rising has launched their 2025 Grantmaking Cycle, which will provide general operating support to strengthen Native-led groups that have a membership base in the community, work to develop leadership, and take collective action to win progressive social change.
Magic Cabinet has committed $7.5 million over five years to Native Voices Rising to strengthen Native-led organizations. The partnership combines Magic Cabinet's community-driven model with NVR’s grassroots approach, providing long-term investments and flexible funding to support Native sovereignty and nonprofit capacity.
Our team shares insights from the Native Voices Rising Funder Fellowship and 2024 Native Americans in Philanthropy Conference and what we plan to bring forward in our Native Partnerships work.