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THE INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES
THE INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES (Connecticut) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $762,914 to it, the largest being NORTHWEST CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($391,620). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
THE INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES's revenue grew 19% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.
- Edward C & Ann T Roberts Foundationshared funders
- Association of Tribal Archives Libraries & Museumsportfolio match
- Potlatch Fundportfolio 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: 2021 22% · 2022 29% · 2023 13% · 2024 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
29% of THE INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES’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. 8 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $65k → $65k.
6 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 73% 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 INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES’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 INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% 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 THE INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 68% · 2019 84% · 2020 44% · 2021 59% · 2022 69% · 2023 58% — 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
60% of THE INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
73% of THE INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES'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 $204k that is directly attributable, 69% of it comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $559k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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 17 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Edward C & Ann T Roberts Foundationshared fundersCT · backs 38 organizations that share your funders
- Association of Tribal Archives Libraries & Museumsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Potlatch Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Urban Indian Family Coalitionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- First Nations Development Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Na'ah Illahee Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Hartford Arts Council Incshared fundersCT · backs 41 organizations that share your funders
- First Alaskans Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ndn Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Indian Youth Running Strong Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Organizations like THE INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES
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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
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 INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES: 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 INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES?
- THE INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES (Connecticut) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $762,914 to it, the largest being NORTHWEST CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($391,620). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $762,914 in grants to THE INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES?
- NORTHWEST CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $391,620 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 17funders 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