In an effort to create an overview of our operations and budget in recent years, as well as celebrate our program achievements, we are describing our income sources as well as including a handful of graphics that help illustrate our activities in fiscal years 2013 – 2017.

Program Income and Expenses

Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages receives its income primarily through grant awards. As you can see in Figure 1 and Figure 2 below, our income from grants has surpassed our income from contributions and donations in fiscal years 2013 – 2017 (please see list of grants awarded during this period at the bottom of this post).

In Figure 3 below, you can see that our revenue tends to only be slightly higher than our expenses. Our revenue and our expenses have been closely correlated over the years because we operate on a tight budget. We hope to continue the trend of  increasing the gap between expenses and revenues as we did in 2017.

Overhead

As a small organization with resources focused on effectively managing programs, our overhead is very low. As you can see in the pie chart below, our overhead is roughly 10% of our overall expenses. We are committed to maximizing every dollar of our income to ensure our mission and putting most of our funds towards documenting endangered languages.  

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Grants Awarded to Living Tongues Institute (2013-2017)

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the following organizations and funding agencies between 2013 and 2017. 

2015-2017. Documentation of Gutob, an endangered Munda language. National Science Foundation/Documentation of Endangered Languages Grant (Award #1500092).

2013-2015. Documentation of Hill Gta’–a seriously endangered Munda language. National Endowment for the Humanities / Documentation of Endangered Languages Grant (Award # PD-50025-13). Full documentation of this nearly undocumented endangered language of India.

2013-2015. Melanesia Online: Ethnobotanical, Ethnozoological, Ethnogeographic knowledge of “tok ples” in Papua New Guinea. Christensen Fund.

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