Louisiana · Nonprofit
THE AMISTAD RESEARCH CENTER
THE AMISTAD RESEARCH CENTER (Louisiana) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,127,969 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($1,000,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE AMISTAD RESEARCH CENTER has grown faster than half of the 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Henry Luce Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio match
- United Way of Southeast Louisianashared funders
- American Historical Associationportfolio match
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.
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: 2017 20% · 2018 2% · 2019 0% · 2020 26% · 2021 9% · 2022 27% · 2023 20% · 2024 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of THE AMISTAD RESEARCH CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $11k → $659k.
5 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 THE AMISTAD RESEARCH CENTER’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
THE AMISTAD RESEARCH CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 74%; 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: 2017 67% · 2018 45% · 2019 86% · 2020 39% · 2021 91% · 2022 46% · 2023 76% — growing more concentrated.
“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
50% of THE AMISTAD RESEARCH CENTER'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
THE AMISTAD RESEARCH CENTER draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside Louisiana, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $285k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 18 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Henry Luce Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio matchNY · backs 89 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Southeast Louisianashared fundersLA · backs 56 organizations that share your funders
- American Historical Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nissan Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The International Coalition of Sites of Conscienceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United Statesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lux Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Council on Library and Information Resourcesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lannan Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Peter T Joseph Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Violet Jabara Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Baptist Community Ministriesshared fundersLA · backs 69 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding THE AMISTAD RESEARCH CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.9M on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$1.1M
- National Endowment for the Humanities$402k
- National Archives and Records Administration$379k
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 THE AMISTAD RESEARCH CENTER
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Louisiana
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
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE AMISTAD RESEARCH CENTER: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE AMISTAD RESEARCH CENTER?
- THE AMISTAD RESEARCH CENTER (Louisiana) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,127,969 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($1,000,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE AMISTAD RESEARCH CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $2,127,969 in grants to THE AMISTAD RESEARCH CENTER, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE AMISTAD RESEARCH CENTER?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE AMISTAD RESEARCH CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 18funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing