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ELNU ABENAKI INC

ELNU ABENAKI INC (Vermont) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $560,816 to it, the largest being THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($264,589). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$199k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$561k
Net assets
$714k
2/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 85%
01What it does

What Elnu Abenaki Inc does

Mission

Dedicated to researching, preserving, practicing, and sharing the traditional and contemporary culture of the abenaki people, through activities of the members of elnu abenaki tribe, a vermont state-recognized tribe under the provisions of 1 vsa chapter 23.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Dedicated to researching, preserving, practicing, and sharing the traditional and contemporary culture of the abenaki people, through activities of the members of elnu abenaki tribe, a vermont state-recognized tribe under the provisions of 1 vsa chapter 23.

    $12,881 spent$190,402 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $12,881.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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.

100 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($424k) Expenses 100 ($6k) Net assets 100 ($434k)2023 Revenue 49 ($206k) Expenses 2802 ($174k) Net assets 150 ($651k)2024 Revenue 36 ($152k) Expenses 2358 ($146k) Net assets 151 ($656k)2025 Revenue 47 ($199k) Expenses 2223 ($138k) Net assets 164 ($714k)
2022202320242025
Revenue (47)Expenses (2223)Net assets (164)Peer revenue range

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 $434k to $655k (+51%).

$434k
$655k
$661k
$718k
2022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

96% of ELNU ABENAKI INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,618 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$418k
’22
$32k
’23
$6k
’24
$61k
’25
6.6
months of
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.

2022202320242025
Listed5555
Joined·+0+0+0
No longer listed·000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $363k → $84k.

2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 ELNU ABENAKI INC’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

ELNU ABENAKI INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

85% 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 ELNU ABENAKI INC.

47%
largest funder
88%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 59% · 2023 48% — 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

74% of ELNU ABENAKI INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $146k that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from funders outside Vermont, across 3 states.

VT
NY
DC

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $415k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ELNU ABENAKI INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin31% · top quartile
Months of reserve6.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−22% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding ELNU ABENAKI INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $400 on record.

State$400
Top programs
  • Instate Conf, Meetings, Etc$400

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 ELNU ABENAKI INC

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 Vermont

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

9% of spending goes to programs.

Program 9%Management 91%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

97%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds ELNU ABENAKI INC?
ELNU ABENAKI INC (Vermont) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $560,816 to it, the largest being THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($264,589). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does ELNU ABENAKI INC have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $560,816 in grants to ELNU ABENAKI INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ELNU ABENAKI INC?
THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $264,589 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ELNU ABENAKI INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing