2025-05-12T21:03:01-07:00 2024-12-31 990 2024-01-01 920498044 INDIGIGENIUS INDI 5093502689 522 W Riverside Ave Suite 4934 Spokane WA 99201 Andrea Delgado-Olson Executive Director 5093502689 2025-04-28 1 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Andrea Delgado Olson 3597 Walnut Street Lafayette CA 94549 1140021 0 X www.indigigenius.org X 2022 WA Mission : We are Indigenous futurists dedicated to empowering communities through culturally-centered mentorship, education, research, and career development. By advancing Indigenous knowledge and sovereignty in AI, computer science, and transformational technologies, we aim to inspire future leaders and drive innovation that benefits Indigenous peoples. Our Vision : We envision an ecosystem of Indigenous excellence in AI, computer science, and advanced technology, guided by culturally informed research, education, and community-driven programs. As a North Star, our initiatives empower youth, educators, and communities to reclaim knowledge, innovate, and lead in fields shaping our future. 5 5 4 0 0 0 1446763 1135094 0 0 0 4927 0 0 1446763 1140021 0 0 0 0 88667 558601 0 0 15883 202099 586782 290766 1145383 1155997 -5362 1174886 1171988 0 0 1174886 1171988 X To increase the number of Indigenous Computer Science students and instructors in the fields of Data Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and beyond by providing access to learning opportunities, tools, resources, mentorship, and support. IndigiGenius is an Indigenous-led, community focused nonprofit developing a sustainable and scalable system of creating leaders and changemakers in the fields of Computer Science. Our organizational goal of reaching population parity with CS PhD graduate rates by graduating thirty-five Indigenous CS PhD students per year. To accomplish this goal, IndigiGenius developed a series of programs that educate students and teachers to create earlier CS opportunities at the high school level. 1 0 248432 0 0 Lakota AI Code Camp Program aims to inspire students to pursue pathways into higher education and careers in advanced technology fields. LAICC is a three-week long summer program for high school students where they gain hands-on experience developing personalized mobile apps using industry standard software engineering practices, computer science, deep learning, and extended reality incorporating Indigenous knowledge and methods. By inspiring the students to pursue their future in advanced technology and connecting them with professional networks, the LAICC fulfills the Strategic Focus Areas of Higher Education and Career Readiness while also laying the foundations for all three aspects of Workforce Development: Early Career Exposure, Diverse Pathways to Employment, and Bridging Transitions between Higher Education and Careers. Laying the foundations for Academic Success the LAICC provides future Indigenous AI researchers, practitioners, and professionals with a community of Indigenous peers, mentors, and technical experts to support and uplift them as they continue learning and developing their programming and AI skills after the camp. 9395 0 0 Indigenous in AI/ML's vision is to build an international community of Native, Aboriginal, and First Nations who will collectively transform their home communities with advanced technology. By elevating the voices of Indigenous ML researchers we will inspire future impactful work and break stereotypes. Additionally, this group will strive to educate the broader NeurIPS on contemporary indigenous issues relevant to information technology and practices. 558487 0 0 Teach the Teacher Professional Development (T3PD) offers AI Education to Indigenous communities, who have historically been underserved, by recruiting, training, and supporting future instructors to implement an AI Code Camp in their home community. 212583 0 0 The FLAIR initiative serves Indigenous communities in their efforts to revitalize their language and culture through technology. We are building the foundations for Indigenous Voice AI in systems explicitly designed to respect data sovereignty and linguistic self-determination. Our foundational automatic speech recognition (ASR) research aims to develop a method for the rapid creation of custom models for endangered languages. These models can be used for language learning, audio transcription, voice-controlled technology and much more. We envision a world in which Indigenous communities have full self-determination and sovereignty over their language and culture. We imagine technology serving the revitalization and thriving of languages as a tool to connect community members, to celebrate their identity, and to transmit their culture and knowledge on the community's own terms. 212583 0 0 1028897 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 25 0 1 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 5 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 WA X X Heather L Barfield 5093502689 522 W Riverside Ave Suite 4934 Spokane WA 99201 Andrea Delgado-Olson Executive Director 40 X 150547 0 0 Ian Her Many Horses Secretary 2 X X 23250 0 0 Mason Grimshaw Vice Chair 2 0 X X 13250 0 0 Elizabeth Starks Board Member 2 X 9250 0 0 Michael Running Wolf Board Chair 2 X X 0 0 0 Caroline Running Wolf Treasurer 2 X X 0 0 0 196297 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1135094 0 1135094 0 0 0 0 0 4927 4927 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1140021 4927 0 0 X 150547 105382 30110 15055 0 321141 278012 43129 41213 32970 8243 45700 36560 9140 23438 23438 744 744 97 11 86 210392 210392 13272 12068 726 478 134921 129536 5385 0 169705 168875 830 2010 1608 402 561 561 Program Supplies and Materials 22885 22885 0 0 Other Business Expense 8757 6599 1808 350 0 1145383 1028897 100603 15883 1174886 1171988 1174886 1171988 0 0 0 X 924886 1021239 250000 150749 1174886 1171988 1174886 1171988 X -5362 0 0 0 2464 0 X 0 0 0 X 10000 1447084 1135094 2592178 0 0 0 10000 1447084 1135094 2592178 2592178 2697 4927 7624 0 2599802 X 10000 1447084 1135094 2592178 0 0 10000 1447084 1135094 2592178 2592178 2697 4927 7624 0 0 0 2697 4927 7624 0 0 0 10000 1449781 1140021 2599802 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED X X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Andrea Delgado-Olson Executive Director 150047 0 500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 150547 0 0 0 Schedule J, Part II Compensation salary for Executive Director with a holiday bonus Form 990, Part III, Line 2 The T3PD Program offers AI Education to Indigenous communities who have been historically underserved in this area by recruiting, training, and supporting future instructors to implement an IndigiGenius AI Code Camp in their home communities. T3PD is nine weeks of learning and activities for teachers to gain the technical and pedagogical skills necessary to be AI Code Camp instructors. Skills include basic knowledge and ability to work and develop using GitHub, Docker, Jupyter notebooks, Python, PyTorch, and Unity mobile application development. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 2 family relationship Michael Running Wolf and Caroline Running Wolf Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b The finance committee, executive board members, and leadership staff review the 990 before submission. Additionally, the organization contracts with a CPA firm for review of the 990. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15 Compensation of the Executive Director is reviewed annually and determined by a board vote. The board uses criteria to assess the performance of the Executive Director including comparability data, planning, budgeting, economic management, compliance, problem solving and decision making, evaluation/control, risk management, communication skills, coordination/collaboration, supervisory control, leadership, staff appraisal, development, effort and initiative, professional/technical competence, innovation, objectivity, credibility, and flexibility. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 All documents are available upon request. Form 990, Part IX, Line 11g Program Service expenses include non-employee compensation for camps including program heads, instructors, interns, and chaperones. Includes program-specific budgeted line items. Form 990, Part XI, Line 9 Prior End of Year journal balance for end of year reconciliation