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Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF)

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The Indian Land Tenure Foundation, in Little Canada, Minnesota, supports tribes and Native landowners working to recover and control their homelands.

Kind
501(c)(3) private-operating/grantmaking foundation
Native-led
yes-verified
Works with
Pan-tribal; Pe' Sla campaign for Oceti Sakowin
Region
Little Canada, MN; national
Focus
Land recovery and control by tribes and individual Indian landowners; grants; estate planning; lender affiliate Indian Land Capital Company
Registry
EIN 41-2014273 (ProPublica); Charity Navigator 4/4 stars

What happened

The Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) describes itself as "a national, community-based organization serving American Indian nations and people in the recovery and control of their rightful homelands." ProPublica lists it in Little Canada, Minnesota, under EIN 41-2014273, with tax exemption issued in October 2001. Its leadership page says Howard D. Valandra, a Sicangu Lakota and enrolled member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, returned in 2025 to serve as president, and that an 11-member board is made up of Indian landowners, tribal representatives and others committed to Indian land issues.

ILTF's stated mission is that land within the original boundaries of every reservation, and other areas where tribes retain aboriginal interest, is in Indian ownership and management. It pursues this through four strategies: education, cultural awareness, economic opportunity and legal reform. It also says it educates landowners about land management, ownership and transfer, noting problems such as fractionated ownership, where one parcel has many heirs.

As a community foundation, ILTF accepts contributions to support grantmaking and program initiatives. It publishes educational materials, estate-planning resources for landowners and annual reports.

ILTF funds and supports land recovery by others; it is not known to hold land itself. Its results are described by the organization in its annual reports.

Good to know. An independent audit for the year ending December 2024 found a material weakness in internal controls, which is not a finding of misuse. To be safe, reach the donate page by typing iltf.org directly.

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What the sources say, and how this was checked

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  1. a national, community-based organization serving American Indian nations and people in the recovery and control of their rightful homelandsILTF - Mission
  2. As a community foundation, ILTF accepts contributions from organizations and individuals to support its grantmaking and program initiatives.ILTF - Mission
  3. has returned to Indian Land Tenure Foundation in 2025 to serve as PresidentILTF - Leadership
  4. Material weakness in internal controlsProPublica Nonprofit Explorer - Indian Land Tenure Foundation

Research notes. Donor note: ProPublica reports that an independent audit for the fiscal year ending December 2024 identified a material weakness in internal controls; it is a finding, not a finding of misuse, and this record did not read the audit. The vetting note also says a fetched homepage once contained an unrelated spam link; the page fetched this session did not, but confirm the donate link by visiting iltf.org directly. Annual reports and grant results were not read.

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Supports the return of 1

Sources

  1. iltf.org/self-description
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Vetting notes
Leadership page names President Howard D. Valandra (Sicangu Lakota, Rosebud Sioux Tribe) and a board with named tribal affiliations. Two flags for a human reviewer: (1) the fetched homepage contained an unrelated injected spam link (gambling), suggesting the site may have a security problem; confirm the donate link by reaching the site directly. (2) ProPublica summary notes the FY2024 audit reported a material weakness in internal controls; read the 990/audit before presenting as top-tier. [V3 2026-10-16] Spam injection CONFIRMED on the homepage and on /get-involved/contribute/ (Turkish-language gambling link to thesweetsensations.com). EIN 41-2014273 confirmed on ProPublica (Indian Land Tenure Foundation, Little Canada MN, exempt Oct 2001, FY2024 revenue about $21.5M), stated on ILTF contribute page, and Charity Navigator shows 4/4 stars with no alert. The GiveSmart donation URL is the one ILTF's own pages link to, but the form itself could not be loaded, and a site with injected content may have other tampering. Hold the donation link until ILTF confirms the site is clean; link to ProPublica or Charity Navigator for the organization instead.
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