The Fund of the Sacred Circle (FSC) is Headwaters' longest-standing fund. Since the early 2000s, FSC grants have provided general-operating support to Native-led organizations in Minnesota that focus on community organizing, self-determination and sovereignty, and systems change.

This years’ grantee organizations are doing work that includes language and cultural revitalization; reclamation of traditional lifeways; protection of environment, waters, foodways, and land; sovereignty and treaty rights; civic participation; and narrative change. 

The Fiscal Year 2022 Fund of the Sacred Circle grantees are:

• American Indian Cancer Foundation: 
• American Indian Family Center  
• Center School Inc.  
• Dakhóta Iápi Okhódakičhiye  
• Dakota Wicohan  
• Dream of Wild Health  
• Grassroots Indigenous Multimedia  
• Leech Lake Financial Services, Inc.
• Little Earth Residents Association  
• Lower Phalen Creek Project  
• Manidoo Ogitigaan  
• Mewinzha Ondaadiziike Wiigaming  
• Minnesota Indigenous Business Alliance
• Native American Community Development Institute  
• Native Governance Center  
• Native Sun Community Power Development
• Northwest Indian Community Development Center
• Red Lake Endazhi-Nitaawiging
• Tiwahe Foundation 

To read more about this year's Fund of the Sacred Circle community-led grantmaking process, click here.