California · Nonprofit
INSTITUTE OF THE AMERICAS
INSTITUTE OF THE AMERICAS (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,712,710 to it, the largest being Alumbra Innovations Foundation ($461,160). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $15M
What Institute of the Americas does
Mission
To be a catalyst for promoting economic development and integration, emphasizing the role of the private sector, as a means to improve the economic and social well-being of the people of the Americas.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Environment & Climate Change (EC2) Program: IOAs EC2 program strives to catalyze climate leadership amongst the private sector and local/regional governments in the Americas to promote sustainable growth, tackle climate change and minimize environmental impacts in the region with the goal of protecting its rich marine and land-based natural capital. IOA partnered with ICELI-USA and Resilient Cities Catalyst (RCC) to support the U.S. State Departments subnational initiative, Cities Forward, through the organization of a Western Hemispheric Dialogue on Climate Adaptation and Resilience held in Sao Paulo, Brazil in June 2024 attended by 12 municipalities from Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). IOA also organized the first Binational Forum on Sustainable Maritime Transport and Ports in La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico in February 2024 attended by a multistakeholder group from Mexico, the U.S, other LAC countries and subject matter experts from Brazil and the European Union. In 2024, IOA organized its 2d annual Un Dia Por Los Mares event in Mexico City to promote marine protected areas in Mexico and the broader Eastern Tropical Pacific. To promote expanded science diplomacy in…
$671,037 spent50% of program spendingEnergy & Sustainability Program: With the climate imperative and increased importance of energy security, the Energy & Sustainability Program continues to serve as a crucial platform for thought-leadership. At the core of our mission, we seek to foster a deeper understanding of the Western Hemispheres most critical energy and sustainability issues. In 2024, we convened our 5th annual Madrid Energy Conference; organized energy roundtable with industry leaders and government in Argentina and Brazil; and held the 33rd annual La Jolla Energy Conference in October 2024. IOA also continued to host myriad webinars and virtual discussions including periodic meetings and briefings with our Steering Committee and Non-Resident fellows. In 2024, IOA completed work on a decarbonization in Latin America that was published and continued to support energy literacy with civic leaders in Mexico through its Energy Ambassadors Program in the states of Baja California and Sonora.
$541,715 spentof which $15,000 as grants$23,462 earned by the program40% of program spendingEconomic Competitiveness Program: In 2024, the Institute of the Americas (IOA) Economic Competitiveness program advanced key initiatives to strengthen North American economic integration, with a focus on the San Diego-Baja California regions potential in nearshoring. In April, IOA and the Burnham Center released Seizing CaliBajas Nearshoring Opportunity: A Binational Call for Action, presenting strategies to boost U.S.-Mexico trade and supply chain security. This report, which attracted nearly 200 cross-border stakeholders, underscored the potential for increased nearshoring related investment in Baja California that could boost exports to the U.S. but also highlighted the necessary pre-conditions that would be required for this investment to occur. With support from the Burnham Foundation and California GO-Biz, IOA and the Burnham Center also hosted a forum on the generic and biosimilar manufacturing potential for the CaliBaja region where Representative Scott Peters emphasized the region's role in stabilizing essential medicine supplies. IOA, in partnership with UC San Diegos School of Global Policy & Strategy, serves as the U.S. Co-Coordinator for the North American Forum…
$140,377 spent10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,353,129.
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 $9.1M to $14M (+58%).
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: 2019 2% · 2020 2% · 2021 28% · 2022 9% · 2023 1% · 2024 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
62% of INSTITUTE OF THE AMERICAS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% 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.
Chief executive
Richard Kiy
President & CEO
Board chair
Javade Chaudhri
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $10k → $399k.
6 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 INSTITUTE OF THE AMERICAS’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
INSTITUTE OF THE AMERICAS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
25% 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 INSTITUTE OF THE AMERICAS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 52% · 2022 26% · 2023 45% — 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 INSTITUTE OF THE AMERICAS's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 65% 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
53% of INSTITUTE OF THE AMERICAS's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $430k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
INSTITUTE OF THE AMERICAS is better cushioned than half of the 1,607 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,607 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding INSTITUTE OF THE AMERICAS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $498k on record.
- Department of State$498k
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 INSTITUTE OF THE AMERICAS
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
62%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INSTITUTE OF THE AMERICAS: 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 INSTITUTE OF THE AMERICAS?
- INSTITUTE OF THE AMERICAS (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,712,710 to it, the largest being Alumbra Innovations Foundation ($461,160). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INSTITUTE OF THE AMERICAS have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $1,712,710 in grants to INSTITUTE OF THE AMERICAS, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INSTITUTE OF THE AMERICAS?
- Alumbra Innovations Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $461,160 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INSTITUTE OF THE AMERICAS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 17 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