Illinois · Nonprofit
AMERICAN INST OF INDIAN STUDIES
AMERICAN INST OF INDIAN STUDIES (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,393,253 to it, the largest being Council of American Overseas Research Centers ($1,393,253). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
AMERICAN INST OF INDIAN STUDIES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 71 social science nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 71 social science nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Illinois Action for Childrenlocal
- Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA Incportfolio match
- The Uberoi Foundation for Religious Studiesportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2019 12% · 2020 25% · 2021 28% · 2022 26% · 2023 33% · 2024 39% · 2025 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
73% of AMERICAN INST OF INDIAN STUDIES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $285k → $280k.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN INST OF INDIAN STUDIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
AMERICAN INST OF INDIAN STUDIES draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Illinois Action for ChildrenlocalIL · funds 237 organizations near you
- Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Uberoi Foundation for Religious Studiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Motwani Jadeja Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- World Learning Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Institute of Physics Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Raj Family Private Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- US Russia Foundation for Economic Advancement and the Rule of Lawportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kanak & Prabha Golia Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United States - Japan Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Indira Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arya Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding AMERICAN INST OF INDIAN STUDIES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.0M on record.
- Department of Education$2.1M
- National Endowment for the Humanities$633k
- Department of State$292k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like AMERICAN INST OF INDIAN STUDIES
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN INST OF INDIAN STUDIES: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN INST OF INDIAN STUDIES?
- AMERICAN INST OF INDIAN STUDIES (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,393,253 to it, the largest being Council of American Overseas Research Centers ($1,393,253). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN INST OF INDIAN STUDIES have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,393,253 in grants to AMERICAN INST OF INDIAN STUDIES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN INST OF INDIAN STUDIES?
- Council of American Overseas Research Centers is the largest funder on record, with $1,393,253 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN INST OF INDIAN STUDIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 1funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing