Indiana · Nonprofit
THE LANGUAGE CONSERVANCY INC
THE LANGUAGE CONSERVANCY INC (Indiana) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $587,264 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($128,925). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $832k
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $587k
- Net assets
- $-473589
What The Language Conservancy Inc does
Mission
The language conservancy's mission is to preserve the maximum number of endangered languages in the americas and the world. We believe that all languages have an inherent right to exist-that they are fundamental and irreplaceable facets of people's culture and humanity's linguistic heritage. The language conseervancy (tlc) is dedicated to restoring endangered languages to stability and health and to document the benefits of language recovery to indigenous communities and individuals. Tlc increases international public awareness of language loss and recovery and supports indigenous tribes committed to revitalizing their language.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The language conservancy's mission is to preserve the maximum number of endangered languages
$1,305,225 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,305,225.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2019 to 2020, from $60k to $924k (+1451%).
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 5% · 2022 3% · 2025 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
21% of THE LANGUAGE CONSERVANCY INC’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. 5 of the last 7 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 narrowed from 8 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $68k → $36k.
5 of 26 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $346k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Lakota Language Consortium Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money THE LANGUAGE CONSERVANCY INC raised.
From the IRS filings of THE LANGUAGE CONSERVANCY INC’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 LANGUAGE CONSERVANCY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
47% 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 LANGUAGE CONSERVANCY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 59% · 2019 55% · 2020 53% · 2021 30% · 2022 29% · 2023 42% — 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
15% of THE LANGUAGE CONSERVANCY INC'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 LANGUAGE CONSERVANCY INC draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Indiana, across 17 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $111k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
THE LANGUAGE CONSERVANCY INC receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $587k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding THE LANGUAGE CONSERVANCY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $658k on record.
- Department of the Interior$458k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$200k
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 LANGUAGE CONSERVANCY INC
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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE LANGUAGE CONSERVANCY INC?
- THE LANGUAGE CONSERVANCY INC (Indiana) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $587,264 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($128,925). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE LANGUAGE CONSERVANCY INC have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $587,264 in grants to THE LANGUAGE CONSERVANCY INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE LANGUAGE CONSERVANCY INC?
- THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $128,925 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE LANGUAGE CONSERVANCY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 26 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