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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.

$110k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$23k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$2.6MEducation$710kCivil Rights$74kScience & Tech$73kPublic Benefit$51kCrime & Legal$50kCommunity Improvement$48kYouth Development$42kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $92,707, the rows itemized in this filing. The $109,641 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $16,934 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$19,656
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%American Indian Cultural Center Fou: $14k → 16%AMERICAN INDIAN CULTURAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $8k → 16%American Indian Cultural Center Fou: $3k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ME
WA
MT
ND
MN
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
SD
IN
NJ
CA
UT
CO
VA
AZ
NM
KS
NC
HI
OK
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.9M · 76 repeat orgs$790k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

76
39

Total granted

$2.9M
$732k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+12%

Still filing today

50%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AM
    AUTRY MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST
    3× · 2022–2024 · $94k · revenue +92%
  • NN
    NATIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN HALL OF FAME
    3× · 2022–2024 · $70k · revenue +112%
  • AN
    Alaska Native Heritage Center Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $70k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • AC
    AQUINNAH CULTURAL CENTER INC
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
  • TP
    Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission I
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • PT
    PUYALLUP TRIBE OF INDIANS
    one grant, 2023 · $48k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
American Indian Institute

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.

Human Services
2
The Institute for American Indian Studies

To share and promote the spirit of the northeast's first people

Arts & Culture
3
Museum of Native American History Inc
Arts & Culture
4
Museum of the Aleutians

The Museum of the Aleutians shall collect, preserve, and share the rich cultural legacy of the Aleutian Islands Region.

Arts & Culture
5
Northwest Territory Historic Center
Arts & Culture
6
The Cultural ConservancySacred Land Foundation

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…

Arts & Culture
7
Gichigamiin Indigenous Nations Museum Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
8
Lanikuhonua Cultural Institute
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9
The Foundation for Indigenous Education Leadership Development
Education
10
Alnobaiwi
Arts & Culture
11
The Aleut Foundation
Education
12
Indigenous Cultures Institute

Preserve native american culture

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alaska Native Heritage Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/50
Grantees still filing
31/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

+78 more: $2,264,469 · Other+78 moreAUTRY MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST: $93,583 · Arts & CultureAUTRY MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WESTNATIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN HALL OF FAME: $70,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN HALL OF …Alaska Native Heritage Center Inc: $69,800 · Arts & CultureAlaska Native Heritage Center IncKIMOKEO FOUNDATION: $55,474 · Arts & CultureFort Apache Heritage Foundation Inc: $50,000 · Arts & CultureAQUINNAH CULTURAL CENTER INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Northern Arizona Inc: $50,000 · Arts & CultureINDIGENOUSWAYS INCORPORATED: $49,560 · Arts & CultureHOPIVEWAT INC: $48,130 · Arts & CultureLAKOTA LANGUAGE CONSORTIUM INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureARIZONA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY FOUNDATION: $45,000 · Arts & CulturePORT GAMBLE S'KLALLAM FOUNDATION: $44,713 · Arts & CultureINDIAN PUEBLO CULTURAL CENTER: $44,179 · Arts & CultureINUIT CIRCUMPOLAR COUNCIL-ALASKA: $37,531 · Arts & Culture+15 more: $344,537 · Arts & Culture+15 moreINSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN ARTS TRUST: $38,412 · EducationTOHONO O'ODHAM COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $27,377 · EducationINSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN ARTS & ALASKA NATIVE: $21,520 · EducationHERITAGE UNIVERSITY: $17,907 · EducationHOPI SCHOOL INC: $17,071 · EducationUniversity of Georgia Research Foundation Inc: $8,786 · EducationBRISTOL BAY FOUNDATION: $49,491 · Youth DevelopmentZUNI YOUTH ENRICHMENT PROJECT: $42,000 · Youth DevelopmentWill Rogers Memorial Foundation: $50,000 · PhilanthropyNORTHERN CALIFORNIA TRIBAL COURT COALITION: $50,000 · Crime & LegalDTWO LTD DBA Awana Digital: $49,958 · International
Other$2,264,469Arts & Culture$1,097,507Education$131,073Youth Development$91,491Philanthropy$50,000Crime & Legal$50,000International$49,958

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAUTRY MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST: $93,583 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN HALL OF FAME: $70,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetAlaska Native Heritage Center Inc: $69,800 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetKIMOKEO FOUNDATION: $55,474 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetWill Rogers Memorial Foundation: $50,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetFort Apache Heritage Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetNORTHERN CALIFORNIA TRIBAL COURT COALITION: $50,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetAQUINNAH CULTURAL CENTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetDENAKKANAAGA INC: $50,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetMuseum of Northern Arizona Inc: $50,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetDTWO LTD DBA Awana Digital: $49,958 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetMI-GOO-NI-DI INSTITUTE INC: $49,909 over 3y, 71% of budgetINDIGENOUSWAYS INCORPORATED: $49,560 over 2y, 10% of budgetBRISTOL BAY FOUNDATION: $49,491 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHOPIVEWAT INC: $48,130 over 3y, 33% of budgetALEUTIAN PRIBILOF ISLANDS ASSOCIATION INC: $47,934 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAKOTA LANGUAGE CONSORTIUM INC: $45,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetARIZONA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetPORT GAMBLE S'KLALLAM FOUNDATION: $44,713 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetINDIAN PUEBLO CULTURAL CENTER: $44,179 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetZUNI YOUTH ENRICHMENT PROJECT: $42,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetINSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN ARTS TRUST: $38,412 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKA IPU MAKANI CULTURAL HERITAGE CENTER: $38,253 over 2y, 16% of budgetINUIT CIRCUMPOLAR COUNCIL-ALASKA: $37,531 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetMuseum of the Cherokee People: $35,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetJilkaat Kwaan Heritage Center: $33,580 over 2y, 12% of budgetEASTERN WASHINGTON STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $31,102 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPAI FOUNDATION: $29,998 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetKOIHONUA: $29,600 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetLOWER PHALEN CREEK PROJECT: $29,499 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetNANTICOKE LENNI LENAPE INDIANS OF NJ INC: $27,525 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetTOHONO O'ODHAM COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $27,377 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFIRST AMERICANS MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSIX NATIONS IROQUOIS CULTURAL CENTER INC: $25,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetCALIFORNIA HERITAGE INDIGENOUS RESEARCH PROJECT: $24,418 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetSQUAXIN ISLAND MUSEUM LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTER: $23,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetINSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN ARTS & ALASKA NATIVE: $21,520 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAbbe Museum: $21,320 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetNATIVE ARTS AND CULTURES FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFIRST PEOPLES FUND: $19,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHERITAGE UNIVERSITY: $17,907 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPI SCHOOL INC: $17,071 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetNOT AN ALTERNATIVE INC: $16,144 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetYOUNG OF HEART WORKSHOP: $16,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetMonacan Nation Cultural Foundation Inc: $14,375 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSAND CREEK MASSACRE FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetFORT PECK COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $11,007 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Georgia Research Foundation Inc: $8,786 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 Will Rogers Memorial Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Fort Apache Heritage Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN CALIFORNIA TRIBAL COURT COALITION ↗
  • Who funds AQUINNAH CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
  • 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 ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

First Nations Develop…National Indian Healt…Seventh Generation Fu…Ndn Collective IncNational Congress of …Wounded Warriors Fami…New Mexico Community …The Andrew W Mellon F…National Fish and Wil…Indian Land Tenure Fo…Native American Agric…Potlatch Fund
First Nations Development InstituteCO106.9× affinity58 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Association of Tribal Archives Libraries & Museums funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Association of Tribal Archives Libraries & Museums. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Association of Tribal Archives Libraries & Museums through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 118 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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