The Foundation is no longer accepting Native American Relief Fund grant requests. The application will re-open when the Foundation raises additional funds.

New Mexico Foundation, in collaboration with local and national funding partners, nonprofits and government partners, launched the Native American Relief Fund in April 2020 to help get resources to the communities most in need throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. 

This fund provides emergency grants to tribal communities and non-profit organizations to bring food, water, PPE and emergency assistance to some of the hardest-hit families and communities impacted by COVID-19 across Navajo and Apache Nations and New Mexico Pueblos.

Native American Relief Fund has raised $2,057,164 of the $3 million goal. Approximately 113 grants have been made for a total of $2,024,304.

NMF understands that our tribal communities continue to have long-term needs. Can you help by donating now?

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NMF has implemented four phases of NARF grants.

  • Phase 1 – May 2020: NMF distributed $575,000 to 23 Tribes and Pueblos of New Mexico.
  • Phase 2 – June-October 2020: NMF granted $783,304 to nonprofit organizations and Tribes/Pueblos.
  • Phase 3 – 2021: NMF granted $416,000 to nonprofit organizations and Tribes/Pueblos.
  • Phase 4 – January 2022: NMF granted $230,000 to 23 NM Tribes/Pueblo

Native American Relief Fund Grant Rececipients

  • Pueblo of Acoma
  • Pueblo of Isleta
  • Pueblo of Jemez
  • Pueblo of Laguna
  • Ohkay Owingeh
  • Picuris Pueblo
  • Pueblo of San Felipe
  • Pueblo of San Ildefonso
  • Pueblo of Sandia
  • Pueblo of Santa Ana
  • Santa Clara Pueblo
  • Santo Domingo Pueblo
  • Taos Pueblo
  • Pueblo of Tesuque
  • Pueblo of Zia
  • Pueblo of Zuni
  • Pueblo de Cochiti
  • Nambe Pueblo
  • Pueblo of Pojoaque
  • Ysleta del Sur Pueblo
  • Jicarilla Apache Nation
  • Mescalero Apache Tribe
  • Navajo Nation
  • Albuquerque Rotary Charitable Foundation grant serving Navajo Nation
  • Church of Christ Los Alamos grant serving all native communities
  • Collective Medicine grant serving Navajo Nation
  • Dream Diné Charter School grant serving Navajo Nation
  • Dzil Ditl’ooí School of Empowerment, Action & Perseverance grant serving Navajo Nation
  • ECHO, Inc. grant serving Navajo Nation
  • Fort Defiance Housing Corporation grant serving Navajo Nation
  • IGW Children’s Hope Foundation, Inc. grant serving Navajo Nation
  • Pueblo Relief Fund (Indian Pueblo Cultural Center) grants serving 19 Pueblos of New Mexico
  • Indian Pueblo Cultural Center grants serving grants serving 19 Pueblos of New Mexico
  • Indigenous Life Ways grant serving Navajo Nation and Zuni Pueblo

  • Indigenous Rights Center grant serving Navajo Nation and 19 Pueblos of New Mexico
  • Indigenous Ways grant serving Navajo Nation
  • Laguna Community Foundation grant serving Laguna Pueblo
  • Laguna Rainbow Corporation grants serving Laguna Pueblo
  • Lightning Boy Foundation grant serving Nambe, Picuris, Pojoaque, San Ildefonso, Ohkay Owingeh, Tesuque, Santa Clara, and Taos Pueblos
  • MoGro Mobile Grocery grant serving Nambe, Picuris, Pojoaque, San Ildefonso, Ohkay Owingeh, Tesuque, Santa Clara, and Taos Pueblos
  • National Indian Youth Leadership Project grants serving Navajo Nation, Five Sandoval Pueblos, Zuni, Santa Fe Indian School, and the Native American Community Academy
  • Native American Community Academy grant serving Laguna, Zia, Zuni, and Santo Domingo Pueblos
  • Native American Student Service – SFPS grant serving Native students in Santa Fe Public School District
  • Native Health Initiative grant serving Native Americans living in Albuquerque
  • Navajo Family Voices grant serving Navajo Nation
  • New Mexico Community Capital grant serving Santa Clara Pueblo, Laguna Pueblo, Santa Ana Pueblo, and Zuni Pueblo
  • New Mexico Social Justice Equity Institute grant serving Navajo Nation
  • Pueblo of Laguna Utility Authority grants serving Laguna Pueblo
  • San Juan Collaborative for Health Equity grants serving Navajo Nation
  • Santa Fe Indigenous Center grants serving Navajo Nation, Nambe, Picuris, Pojoaque, San Ildefonso, Ohkay Owingeh, Tesuque, Santa Clara, and Taos Pueblos
  • Seeded Sisters grant serving Jemez Pueblo
  • Six Directions Indigenous School grant serving Navajo Nation and Zuni Pueblo
  • Yee Ha’oolniidoo grant serving Navajo Nation
  • Zuni Youth Enrichment Project grant serving Zuni Pueblo