California · Nonprofit
Tribal Law and Policy Institute
Tribal Law and Policy Institute (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $432,171 to it, the largest being The Skadden Foundation ($148,369). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Tribal Law and Policy Institute's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,336 crime & legal 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.
- Equal Justice Worksshared funders
- Montana Legal Services Associationportfolio match
- Native American Rights Fund Incportfolio 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 96% · 2018 92% · 2020 96% · 2021 94% · 2022 95% · 2023 93% · 2024 90%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of Tribal Law and Policy Institute’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $50k → $78k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 Tribal Law and Policy Institute’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
Tribal Law and Policy Institute leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
35% 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 Tribal Law and Policy Institute.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 62% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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
Tribal Law and Policy Institute draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 7 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Equal Justice Worksshared fundersDC · backs 72 organizations that share your funders
- Montana Legal Services Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Native American Rights Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Illuminative Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Swift Foundation co Manchester Capital Managementportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Urban Indian Family Coalitionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alliance for a Just Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ndn Collective Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Native American Agriculture Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mize Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Swf Immersion Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- First Nations Development Instituteportfolio 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.
Government funding Tribal Law and Policy Institute receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $35.3M on record — $35.3M federal, $200 state.
- Department of Justice$34.3M
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.0M
- (EE) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES$200
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 Tribal Law and Policy Institute
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% 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 Tribal Law and Policy Institute: 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 Tribal Law and Policy Institute?
- Tribal Law and Policy Institute (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $432,171 to it, the largest being The Skadden Foundation ($148,369). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Tribal Law and Policy Institute have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $432,171 in grants to Tribal Law and Policy Institute, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Tribal Law and Policy Institute?
- The Skadden Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $148,369 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Tribal Law and Policy Institute 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.
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 7funders 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