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Association of Tribal Archives Libraries & Museums
The Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums (ATALM) supports the work of Indigenous cultural institutions, provides culturally relevant programming and services, and promotes Indigenous cultural sovereignty.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $92,707 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $109,641 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $16,934 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Citizen Potawatomi Nation | $23,000 |
| Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation | $22,014 |
| Ute Mountain Ute Tribe | $19,656 |
| Quapaw Nation Business Committee | $16,018 |
| Confederated Tribes and Bands of th | $12,019 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
76 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 74 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- AMAUTRY MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST3× · 2022–2024 · $94k · revenue +92%
- NNNATIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN HALL OF FAME3× · 2022–2024 · $70k · revenue +112%
- ANAlaska Native Heritage Center Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $70k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- ACAQUINNAH CULTURAL CENTER INCone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
- TPTwenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission Ione grant, 2024 · $50k
- PTPUYALLUP TRIBE OF INDIANSone grant, 2023 · $48k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The american indian institute's mission is to perpetuate the ancient wisdom and cultural heritage of north america's native people and to promote a greater understanding of that wisdom amoung all people.
To share and promote the spirit of the northeast's first people
The Museum of the Aleutians shall collect, preserve, and share the rich cultural legacy of the Aleutian Islands Region.
We are a Native-led Indigenous rights organization. We are dedicated to our mission of protecting & revitalizing Indigenous cultures, empowering them in the direct application of their traditional knowledge & practices on their ancestral…
To promote and share a deeper understanding and respect of native american peoples through the collection, preservation, and interpretation of their traditional and contemporary art and material culture.
Preserve native american culture
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alaska Native Heritage Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bristol Bay Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 118 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds AUTRY MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN HALL OF FAME ↗
- Who funds Alaska Native Heritage Center Inc ↗
- Who funds KIMOKEO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN CALIFORNIA TRIBAL COURT COALITION ↗
- Who funds AQUINNAH CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Fort Apache Heritage Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Will Rogers Memorial Foundation ↗
- Who funds DENAKKANAAGA INC ↗
- Who funds Museum of Northern Arizona Inc ↗
- Who funds DTWO LTD DBA Awana Digital ↗
- Who funds MI-GOO-NI-DI INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds INDIGENOUSWAYS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BRISTOL BAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPIVEWAT INC ↗
- Who funds ALEUTIAN PRIBILOF ISLANDS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAKOTA LANGUAGE CONSORTIUM INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PORT GAMBLE S'KLALLAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INDIAN PUEBLO CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds ZUNI YOUTH ENRICHMENT PROJECT ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: First Nations Development Institute · National Indian Health Board · Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Inc · Ndn Collective Inc · National Congress of American Indians Fund · Wounded Warriors Family Support Inc · New Mexico Community Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Indian Land Tenure Foundation · Native American Agriculture Fund · Potlatch Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Association of Tribal Archives Libraries & Museums funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Nanticoke Lenni Lenape Indians of Nj Inc — 5% of income from government
- Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- First Americans Museum Foundation — 1% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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