South Dakota · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN RESEARCH & NATIVE STUDIES
CENTER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN RESEARCH & NATIVE STUDIES (South Dakota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $411,459 to it, the largest being NOVO FOUNDATION ($200,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $69k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $411k
- Net assets
- $118k
What Center for American Indian Research & Native Studies does
Mission
To advance knowledge and understanding of american indian communities and issues important to them through (1) development of quality educational resources and innovative projects, (2) serving as a meeting ground for people and ideas that support tribal perspectives, (3) evaluation and design services for projects dealing with american indians and indian communities and (4) training for organizations and institutions to promote cultural awareness.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Developing, publishing, and providing educational resources, training, and courses covering topics including american indian public education, history, art, architecture, culture, geography, sovereignty, and identity.
$80,455 spent$53,629 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $80,455.
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 2020 to 2021, from $105k to $160k (+53%).
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: 2021 9% · 2022 1% · 2023 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
18% of CENTER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN RESEARCH & NATIVE STUDIES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $50k → $112k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 CENTER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN RESEARCH & NATIVE 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.
How concentrated its funding is
CENTER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN RESEARCH & NATIVE STUDIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
38% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CENTER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN RESEARCH & NATIVE STUDIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 44% — 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.
Where its funders are
CENTER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN RESEARCH & NATIVE STUDIES draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside South Dakota, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $145k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states 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
CENTER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN RESEARCH & NATIVE STUDIES's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like CENTER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN RESEARCH & NATIVE STUDIES
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 South Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN RESEARCH & NATIVE 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN RESEARCH & NATIVE STUDIES?
- CENTER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN RESEARCH & NATIVE STUDIES (South Dakota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $411,459 to it, the largest being NOVO FOUNDATION ($200,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN RESEARCH & NATIVE STUDIES have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $411,459 in grants to CENTER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN RESEARCH & NATIVE STUDIES, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN RESEARCH & NATIVE STUDIES?
- NOVO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN RESEARCH & NATIVE STUDIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Dakota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 7 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