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=== Native Arts and Culture Foundation endowment repatriation ===
{{See also|Financial endowment#Ethics and endowment repatriation}}
In 2007, the Ford Foundation co-founded the independent [[Native Arts and Cultures Foundation]] by providing a portion of the new foundation's [[financial endowment|endowment]] out of the Ford Foundation's own. This decision to repatriate a portion of the Ford Foundation's endowment came after self-initiated research into the Ford Foundation's history of support of Native and Indigenous artists and communities. The results of this research indicated "the inadequacy of philanthropic support for Native arts and artists", and related feedback from an unnamed Native leader that "once big foundations put the stuff in place for an Indian program, then it is not usually funded very well. It lasts as long as the program officer who had an interest and then goes away" and recommended that an independent endowment be established and that "[n]ative leadership is crucial".<ref>{{cite web |title=Native Arts and Cultures: Research, Growth and Opportunities for Philanthropic Support |url=https://www.fordfoundation.org/media/1758/2010-native-arts-and-cultures.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190513142508/https://www.fordfoundation.org/media/1758/2010-native-arts-and-cultures.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=2019-05-13 |publisher=Ford Foundation |access-date=13 May 2019 |date=2010}}</ref>