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CENTER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN RESEARCH AND NATIVE STUDIES

EIN 14-1966086 MARTIN, SD

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Revenue 2023
$484,683
Expenses 2023
$483,970

Program services were 96.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B99
Classification
2000
Street
PO BOX 448

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

TO ADVANCE KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITIES AND ISSUES IMPORTANT TO THEM THROUGH (1) DEVELOPMENT OF QUALITY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES AND INNOVATIVE PROJECTS, (2) SERVING AS A MEETING GROUND FOR PEOPLE AND IDEAS THAT SUPPORT TRIBAL PERSPECTIVES, (3) EVALUATION AND DESIGN SERVICES FOR PROJECTS DEALING WITH AMERICAN INDIANS AND INDIAN COMMUNITIES AND (4) TRAINING FOR ORGANIZATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS TO PROMOTE CULTURAL AWARENESS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO ADVANCE KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITIES AND ISSUES.

  • DEVELOPING, PUBLISHING, AND PROVIDING EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES, TRAINING, AND COURSES COVERING TOPICS INCLUDING AMERICAN INDIAN PUBLIC EDUCATION, HISTORY, ART, ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE, GEOGRAPHY, SOVEREIGNTY, AND IDENTITY.DURING 2023, THE ORGANIZATION WAS THE FISCAL SPONSOR FOR THE FILM LAKOTA NATION VS UNITED STATES, WHICH DOCUMENTS THE LAKOTA FIGHT TO PROTECT THEIR SACRED LAND.

    Expenses $465,092 · Revenue $54,998

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Craig Howe

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $13,800
    From this org
    $13,800
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mabel Howe

    SECRETARY/TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $6,816
    From this org
    $6,816
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Peri Strain

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Charles Woodward

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Wayne Fields

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $484,683
    Expenses
    $483,970
    Contributions
    $429,685
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $110,845
    Expenses
    $122,860
    Contributions
    $56,843
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $159,870
    Expenses
    $90,515
    Assets (EOY)
    $160,026

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $82,243
    Expenses
    $109,181
    Assets (EOY)
    $104,562

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $164,141
    Expenses
    $162,257
    Assets (EOY)
    $132,390

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $164,560
    Expenses
    $140,367
    Assets (EOY)
    $130,125

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $218,027
    Expenses
    $135,263
    Assets (EOY)
    $101,662

  • 2016 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $198,467
    Expenses
    $190,292
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,893

  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $188,002
    Expenses
    $215,194
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,312

  • 2014 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $137,016
    Expenses
    $127,694
    Assets (EOY)
    $18,863

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.