Oklahoma · Nonprofit
Association of Tribal Archives Libraries & Museums
Association of Tribal Archives Libraries & Museums (Oklahoma) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,065,624 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($1,250,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $3.1M
- Net assets
- $4.9M
What Association of Tribal Archives Libraries & Museums does
Mission
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.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan With funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, ATALM has provided over $1.35 million in funding to 118 tribal cultural institutions in 29 states to help recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and provide humanities programming to their communities. Native cultural institutions used the funds to support staff retention, general operations, humanities-based programming, and provide other cultural activities. Funding was awarded through a competitive, peer-review application process.
$1,351,924 spentof which $1,351,924 as grants$1,345,602 earned by the program63% of program spendingInternational Conference of Indigenous Archives, Libraries, and Museums Through annual conferences ATALM addresses the need for culturally relevant training and professional development of current and emerging staff of Indigenous archives, libraries, and museums. In addition, the conferences provide educational and networking opportunities for non-Native organizations that serve Indigenous audiences or hold Indigenous collections.
$479,070 spent$810,312 earned by the program22% of program spendingGeneral ATALM Programming ATALM programs include 1. Culture Builds Communities project which provides training and resources to Native communities planning and designing cultural facilities; 2. Doris Duke Native Oral History Project which connect Indigenous communities to oral history materials found in seven different universities across the country; 3. Improving Digital Inclusion and Broadband Infrastructure in Native Communities supports the digital inclusion and broadband infrastructure needs of tribal libraries; 4. The Native Arts and Culture Council helps Native communities to develop cultural plans and establish dedicated community arts agencies; 5. Communities for Immunity is an initiative supporting the work of museums and libraries in engaging their communities in COVID-19 vaccine confidence; and the 6. Managing Audiovisual Collections in Native Cultural Institutions helps tribal communities to preserve and process audiovisuals materials; 7. Native Craft Artist Reading Program provides Native Craft Artisans with training, networking, opportunities, and resources; 8. Going Home Fund facilitates the voluntary return of cultural heritage items to descendant communities.
$328,862 spent15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,159,856.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $1.5M to $2.8M (+86%).
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: 2017 62% · 2018 37% · 2019 42% · 2020 41% · 2021 18% · 2022 36% · 2023 81% · 2024 43% · 2025 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of Association of Tribal Archives Libraries & Museums’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
B Susan Feller
President & CEO
Board chair
Walter Echo-Hawk
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $400k → $77k.
1 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Association of Tribal Archives Libraries & Museums’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.
How concentrated its funding is
Association of Tribal Archives Libraries & Museums leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 88% · 2022 41% · 2023 58% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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.
How long its funders stay
43% of Association of Tribal Archives Libraries & Museums's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
Association of Tribal Archives Libraries & Museums draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Oklahoma, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $202 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.
Against its field
Association of Tribal Archives Libraries & Museums runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Association of Tribal Archives Libraries & Museums receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9.2M on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$5.1M
- National Endowment for the Humanities$4.1M
- National Endowment for the Arts$60k
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 Association of Tribal Archives Libraries & Museums
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Oklahoma
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
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 Association of Tribal Archives Libraries & Museums: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Association of Tribal Archives Libraries & Museums?
- Association of Tribal Archives Libraries & Museums (Oklahoma) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,065,624 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($1,250,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Association of Tribal Archives Libraries & Museums have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $3,065,624 in grants to Association of Tribal Archives Libraries & Museums, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Association of Tribal Archives Libraries & Museums?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Association of Tribal Archives Libraries & Museums find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 9 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing