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LIVING TONGUES INSTITUTE FOR ENDANGERED LANGUAGES
LIVING TONGUES INSTITUTE FOR ENDANGERED LANGUAGES (Oregon) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $581,083 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($392,350). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $253k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $581k
- Net assets
- $362k
What Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages does
Mission
Promotion of living linguistic diversity globally through the documentation, maintenance, preservation, and revitalization of endangered languages and the creation of indigenous language pedagogical materials.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Multi-media digital lexicography project that provides a free to use state of the art tool for citizen linguists to develop materials in their own languages. Interface is in 14 languages with more to come. Funded entirely by donations.
$61,878 spentof which $30,336 as grants33% of program spendingNational science foundation award/linguistics grant bcs 2041248 is called "words, phrases, and sentences at the interface of phonology and syntax". Project details phonological, morphological and syntactic characteristics distinguishing and/or uniting words, phrases, and sentences of seven related languages. Project deliverables include published studies of the details of these for each language.
$54,399 spentof which $27,480 as grants29% of program spendingDocumentation and analysis of seven munda languages and development of the munda virtual archive. National endowment for the humanities/dli-del grant pd 281083-21. Project deliverables include published studies of the details of these for each language and a comparative searchable web-based database and website that permits users to access text, audio and video data about all of these languages and the communities that use them.
$44,000 spent23% of program spendingOther program services ---------------------- 1) paraguay program: a documentation of orally transmitted information about birds and the environment of the yshir (chamacoco) tribe of norhtern paraguay. 2) ki-afrika program: a documentation of onomataopeia, interjections, and conative animal calls across multiple languages in sub-saharan africa. 3) cameroon program: documentation of the babanki (kejom) language and creation of children's reading materials.
$30,029 spentof which $21,244 as grants16% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $190,306.
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 $110k to $226k (+106%).
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.
98% of LIVING TONGUES INSTITUTE FOR ENDANGERED LANGUAGES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 1 of the last 9 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $21k → $51k.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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 LIVING TONGUES INSTITUTE FOR ENDANGERED LANGUAGES’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
LIVING TONGUES INSTITUTE FOR ENDANGERED LANGUAGES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 LIVING TONGUES INSTITUTE FOR ENDANGERED LANGUAGES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 59% · 2019 100% · 2020 74% · 2021 100% · 2022 88% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
86% of LIVING TONGUES INSTITUTE FOR ENDANGERED LANGUAGES'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 $79k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Oregon, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $502k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
LIVING TONGUES INSTITUTE FOR ENDANGERED LANGUAGES holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding LIVING TONGUES INSTITUTE FOR ENDANGERED LANGUAGES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $959k on record.
- National Science Foundation$719k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$240k
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 LIVING TONGUES INSTITUTE FOR ENDANGERED LANGUAGES
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 Oregon
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
100%
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 LIVING TONGUES INSTITUTE FOR ENDANGERED LANGUAGES: 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 LIVING TONGUES INSTITUTE FOR ENDANGERED LANGUAGES?
- LIVING TONGUES INSTITUTE FOR ENDANGERED LANGUAGES (Oregon) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $581,083 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($392,350). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LIVING TONGUES INSTITUTE FOR ENDANGERED LANGUAGES have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $581,083 in grants to LIVING TONGUES INSTITUTE FOR ENDANGERED LANGUAGES, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIVING TONGUES INSTITUTE FOR ENDANGERED LANGUAGES?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $392,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIVING TONGUES INSTITUTE FOR ENDANGERED LANGUAGES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 2017–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing