New Hampshire · Nonprofit
Winter Center for Indigenous Traditions
Winter Center for Indigenous Traditions (New Hampshire) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $465,177 to it, the largest being VITAL COMMUNITIES INC ($241,188). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $56k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $465k
- Net assets
- $681k
What Winter Center for Indigenous Traditions does
Mission
To protect and care for the land, life and traditional ways of Indigenous peoples.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Archives, Library, & Research Center & research Projects: Work to help Native families and communities document family histories, protect sites and burial grounds, preserve and pass on our cultural traditions, and sustain our Indigenous languages continues. Many research and archiving efforts continue as we care for and expand into our our new, fully accessible home. Many families and communities have entrusted their oral and family histories, traditions, understandings, and visions to the Center. They are encouraging the next generations to visit and carry on their learning and the strengthening of the past for future generations to come.
$17,707 spent$20,000 earned by the program42% of program spendingEducation Project: Programs continue in colleges, universities, local towns, and community organizations. We also continue to advise numerous Native and non-Native individuals, families, and communities, and lcoal, state, and federal agencies on a variety of Indigenous historical, cultural, and other other topics and issues.
$9,510 spent$10,000 earned by the program22% of program spendingElders, Youth, and Families Project: We help elders with health issues to survive, to heal the wounds of major traumas, and to preserve oral tradtiions, to document sacred and traditional sites, and to protect our shared environment. We also link our elders and interested youth to preserve and pass on our ancient traditions as well as to help our young people survive and guide them into lives grounded in our ancient traditions and languages.
$3,553 spent$4,000 earned by the program8% of program spendingSite Protection Project: Preservation work continues to expand for many sites, unique plant and tree communities, and sacred sites including brown ash tree stands nut tree orchards, and herbal medicine and wild food sources. We are also teaching Indigenous stewardship skills to our youth as well as to public and private institutions and communities
$1,394 spent$1,500 earned by the program3% of program spendingEnvironmental Justice Project - we continue our work with Indigenous communities and local and regional conservation organizations to protect threatened ecologies, understand and work to eliminate pollution in fish populations, and reduce the effects of wind power, hydro electric dams, power line projects and other development.
$3,136 spent$3,500 earned by the program7% of program spendingBurial Protection & Repatriation Project: Repatriation of Native remains, grave goods, and scared items continues as well as the monitoring of many burial grounds and sacred sites, and guiding institutions in repatriations. We are collaborating closely with a coalition of elders and communities to protect burial grounds, sacred and traditional sites, and ecologically sensitve areas.
$1,270 spent$1,500 earned by the program3% of program spendingHealth Project: The health work continues as many Abenaki and other Native elders and families are having immediate health crises, long term care, and end-of-life assistance. Long-term care also continues for victims of sexual abuse and domestic violence, veterans, and their families, and many others suffering from historical traumas and PTSD. Work continues to improve policies and care and maintain traditions.
$5,411 spent$6,000 earned by the program13% of program spendingAwighiganal Publishing Project - continues to support the Archive, Library, and Research Center book and resource publishing effort. Editing and guiding publication of a number of articles, books, teaching guides, and other resources continues.
$0 spent0% of program spendingLanguage Project - Helping Abenaki youth and families to increase the daily use of Abenaki language in our communities continues including collaborations, creating more teaching materials, facitlitating long-term apprenticeships, as well as language teaching gatherings. Language resource writing and sharing continues as well.
$629 spent$750 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 9 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $42,610.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $696k to $688k (−1%).
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.
98% of Winter Center for Indigenous Traditions’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $500.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 Winter Center for Indigenous Traditions’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
Winter Center for Indigenous Traditions leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 Winter Center for Indigenous Traditions.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 100% · 2019 92% · 2020 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
Winter Center for Indigenous Traditions draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New Hampshire, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Winter Center for Indigenous Traditions runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Winter Center for Indigenous Traditions
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 New Hampshire
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
63%
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 Winter Center for Indigenous Traditions: 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 Winter Center for Indigenous Traditions?
- Winter Center for Indigenous Traditions (New Hampshire) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $465,177 to it, the largest being VITAL COMMUNITIES INC ($241,188). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Winter Center for Indigenous Traditions have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $465,177 in grants to Winter Center for Indigenous Traditions, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Winter Center for Indigenous Traditions?
- VITAL COMMUNITIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $241,188 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Winter Center for Indigenous Traditions find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Hampshire. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 6 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