New Mexico · Nonprofit
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
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
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 program27% of program spendingAnnual 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 program73% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $380,302.
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 2018 to 2019, from $82k to $172k (+110%).
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: 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).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
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
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.
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.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE INSTITUTE's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
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.
- 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE INSTITUTE: 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 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