GRANTMAKING
Tanka Fund works directly with private Native ranchers
Tanka Fund provides funding directly to Native ranchers to establish new Buffalo ranches or to support, expand, and sustain existing ranch operations. Our regranting program is a strategy to increase access to capital and animals for Native Buffalo caretakers. Tanka Fund also provides direct grant funding in order to assist with the infrastructure-building needs of ranch operations. Funds can be used for equipment, fencing, feed, hay, soil testing, or any other function related to daily operations.
Buffalo Caretaker Stories: Rancher Challenges
Some of our private Buffalo caretaker partners explain how our work supports the animals and the independent work that they do on their family/community ranches.
VIDEOS: Tanka Fund rancher partners Brendan Siers of Double S Ranch in South Dakota and Skylar Pogue of GP Ranch in Texas share some of the ways Tanka Fund has supported their work as Buffalo caretakers.
“We want to help them grow and emerge and become sustainable… in the work that they love.”
Arnell Abold, Tanka Fund COO
