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INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE INSTITUTE

INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE INSTITUTE (New Mexico) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $109,713 to it, the largest being AVATAR ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ($50,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$413k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$110k
Net assets
$-15847
4/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 14%
01What it does

What Indigenous Language Institute does

Mission

The Indigenous Language Institute provides vital language related service to native communities so that their individual identities, traditional wisdom, and values are passed on to future generations in their original languages.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. General programs ~ regional & community workshops, consultation and evaluation or language programs for various tribal language programs nationwide; tribal consultation on language program development; teacher training on best practices. Approx 825 attendees with 90 tribal communities benefiting from this program.

    $101,032 spent$500 earned by the program
    27% of program spending
  2. Annual Indigenous Language Institute symposium (ilis2024) attendance was approx 300 attendees representing 103 tribal communities throughout the united states.

    $279,270 spent$315,575 earned by the program
    73% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $380,302.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($369k) Expenses 100 ($375k) Net assets -14 ($-6583)2018 Revenue 124 ($456k) Expenses 107 ($403k) Net assets 100 ($46k)2019 Revenue 156 ($575k) Expenses 130 ($486k) Net assets 293 ($135k)2020 Revenue 65 ($238k) Expenses 64 ($241k) Net assets 355 ($164k)2021 Revenue 35 ($128k) Expenses 46 ($173k) Net assets 256 ($118k)2022 Revenue 32 ($118k) Expenses 43 ($161k) Net assets 164 ($76k)2023 Revenue 54 ($200k) Expenses 69 ($259k) Net assets 35 ($16k)2024 Revenue 112 ($413k) Expenses 119 ($445k) Net assets -34 ($-15847)
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Revenue (112)Expenses (119)Net assets (-34)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 2018 to 2019, from $82k to $172k (+110%).

$29k
$82k
$172k
$240k
$196k
$189k
$130k
$97k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 11% · 2019 44% · 2020 69% · 2021 42%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

22% of INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$6k
’17
$53k
’18
$89k
’19
−$3k
’20
−$45k
’21
−$43k
’22
−$59k
’23
−$32k
’24
2.6
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.

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Listed10881010101110
Joined·+0+0+2+0+1+1+0
No longer listed·2000101
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $11k.

2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE INSTITUTE’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

INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

46%
largest funder
86%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 96% · 2021 95% · 2022 90% · 2023 90% — 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

20% of INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE INSTITUTE draws 73% of its grant income from funders outside New Mexico, across 5 states in all.

NY
OR
CA
NM
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
’22
’23
New Mexico out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k 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

INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE INSTITUTE's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−8% · below the median
Months of reserve2.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Government funding INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE INSTITUTE receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $419k on record.

Federal$419k
grants $419kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of the Interior$419k

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 INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE INSTITUTE

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 New Mexico

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 11%Fundraising 3%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

77%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NM

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Questions and answers

Who funds INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE INSTITUTE?
INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE INSTITUTE (New Mexico) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $109,713 to it, the largest being AVATAR ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ($50,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE INSTITUTE have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $109,713 in grants to INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE INSTITUTE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE INSTITUTE?
AVATAR ALLIANCE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE INSTITUTE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Mexico. 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 8 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