Desert Diamond Casinos is an Enterprise of the Tohono Oodham Nation, investing in its tribal enterprises to foster economic development while simultaneously maintaining control over the enterprises impacts on the environment, natural resources, and tribal cultural values.

The Nations enterprises provide much of the financial resources needed to manage day-to-day government operations as well as a full governmental infrastructure. The Nation encourages economic development and has micro-loan organizations that assist tribal members who have business plans intended to contribute to the Tohono Oodham Nations growing self-sustainability.

The popularity of the gaming industry has provided the capital necessary to attempt other forms of economic development, and the Nation has been quite successful.