To our philanthropic, corporate, and community partners,

We, the undersigned Tribal Nations, Tribal entities, and Native-led organizations, offer our support for the Hozhonigo Institute and its programs, including the Tribal Funding Registry (TFR).

Tribal Nations and Native-led organizations do not lack vision, leadership, or capacity. We work within a funding system that was not built for us. Opportunities are scattered across hundreds of agencies, foundations, and corporate programs. Mainstream grant tools are costly and do not reflect how Tribal governments operate. Recent disruption in federal funding has made these barriers more urgent.

The Hozhonigo Institute is building the infrastructure that lowers these barriers. Through TFR, our governments and organizations have free access to curated funding opportunities, live support from experienced grant professionals, and tools designed around Tribal governance and the language we use to describe our own work. The Institute is also developing the Tribal Project Capacity & Procurement Exchange and fiscal management support, so communities can put funding to work and steward it well.

We support this work because it is Native-led and accountable to the communities it serves. It respects our right to set our own priorities. It does not ask us to give up our data in exchange for access. And it remains free to the communities who need it most.

We encourage philanthropic, corporate, and community partners to invest in the Hozhonigo Institute and its programs, so these services stay free and continue to grow across Indian Country.

Sovereignty and Terms of Support

This letter is a statement of support. Signing it creates no legal, financial, or governmental obligation for any signatory.

No waiver of sovereignty or immunity. Nothing in this letter waives, limits, or diminishes the sovereignty, sovereign immunity, treaty rights, or self-governing authority of any signing Tribal Nation.

Non-binding. This letter is not a contract, memorandum of understanding, or government-to-government agreement. It creates no enforceable rights or obligations for any party.

No financial commitment. Signing does not commit any signatory to provide funding, staff time, or other resources.

No data obligation. Signatories are not required to share data or information about their citizens, members, programs, or finances.

No authority to act on a signatory’s behalf. The Hozhonigo Institute does not speak for or represent any signatory, and may not make commitments in a signatory’s name.

Signing authority. Each signatory decides, under its own laws and governance, who may sign. The Institute does not require a Tribal resolution, though a Nation may choose to adopt one.

Revocable at any time. A signatory may withdraw its support at any time by writing to community@tribalfunding.org. The Institute will remove the signatory’s name, logo, and seal from its website and all future materials within 10 business days.

Respectful use of name and seal. The Institute will use a signatory’s name, logo, or seal only as permitted below, and only to show support for the Institute and its programs. It will not alter a logo or seal, or use it to suggest endorsement of any product, service, or third party.

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• This letter is a statement of support, not a contract, MOU, or government-to-government agreement.

• Signing commits no funding, staff time, or data.

• Nothing in the letter waives sovereignty, sovereign immunity, treaty rights, or self-governing authority.

• You may withdraw at any time by emailing community@tribalfunding.org. We will remove your name, logo, and seal from our website and all future materials within 10 business days.