Wisconsin · Nonprofit
WAADOOKODAADING OJIBWE LANGUAGE INSTITUTE INC
WAADOOKODAADING OJIBWE LANGUAGE INSTITUTE INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,193,128 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($1,500,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Waadookodaading Ojibwe Language Institute Inc does
Mission
The mission of waadookodaading is to create proficient speakers of the ojibwe language who are able to meet the challenges of our rapidly changing world. The school will be a community center for language revitalization, local environmental understanding and intergenerational relationships. We expect that students will be grounded in local language, culture and traditions, while aware of global concerns. Our aim is to foster a love of learning while teaching the skills that will enable students to create solutions for our community and our planet.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Create proficient speakers of the ojibwe language who are able to meet the challenges of our rapidly changing world.
$1,991,463 spent$1,991,463 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,991,463.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2023 to 2024, from $1.6M to $3.2M (+99%).
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: 2019 86% · 2020 89% · 2021 58% · 2022 71% · 2023 72% · 2024 36% · 2025 56%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of WAADOOKODAADING OJIBWE LANGUAGE INSTITUTE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% 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
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.
Board chair
Kelly Nayquonabe
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $260k → $510k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 WAADOOKODAADING OJIBWE LANGUAGE INSTITUTE 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
WAADOOKODAADING OJIBWE LANGUAGE INSTITUTE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
62% 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 WAADOOKODAADING OJIBWE LANGUAGE INSTITUTE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 62% · 2022 50% · 2023 39% — 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
40% of WAADOOKODAADING OJIBWE LANGUAGE INSTITUTE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
WAADOOKODAADING OJIBWE LANGUAGE INSTITUTE INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M 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
WAADOOKODAADING OJIBWE LANGUAGE INSTITUTE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding WAADOOKODAADING OJIBWE LANGUAGE INSTITUTE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.6M on record.
- Department of Education$2.6M
- Department of Health and Human Services$977k
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 WAADOOKODAADING OJIBWE LANGUAGE INSTITUTE 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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WAADOOKODAADING OJIBWE LANGUAGE INSTITUTE INC: 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 WAADOOKODAADING OJIBWE LANGUAGE INSTITUTE INC?
- WAADOOKODAADING OJIBWE LANGUAGE INSTITUTE INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,193,128 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($1,500,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WAADOOKODAADING OJIBWE LANGUAGE INSTITUTE INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $3,193,128 in grants to WAADOOKODAADING OJIBWE LANGUAGE INSTITUTE INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WAADOOKODAADING OJIBWE LANGUAGE INSTITUTE INC?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $1,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WAADOOKODAADING OJIBWE LANGUAGE INSTITUTE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 12 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