TAPESTRY INSTITUTE

Financials

From the e-filed returns the IRS publishes as XML (latest three processing years; amended returns replace the original). PDF copies at the IRS.

Officers, directors and key employees

As listed on the 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024, highest compensation first.

Address and contacts

Address (IRS master file)

PO BOX 1156, CHADRON, NE 69337-1156

In care of

% JOANNE BELASCO

Mailing address (990-N for 2021)

PO Box 1156, Chadron NE 69337

Principal officer (990 for 2024)

Joanne Belasco, PO Box 1156, Chadron, NE 69337

Principal officer (990-N for 2021)

Jo Belasco, PO Box 1156, Chadron NE 69337

Signed the 990

Joanne Belasco, Co-President

Phone

(308) 763-9393

Mission

Tapestry Institute facilitates promotes and carries out collaborative research scholarship and education in different ways of knowing learning about and responding to the natural world within Indigenous worldview. Our purpose in doing so is to enhance the ability of human beings to hear understand and learn from the Land which Tapestry Institute serves.

Program accomplishments

• Tapestrys education mission engages adults in different ways of knowing learning about and responding to the natural world. It works best outdoors. The northern Nebraska panhandle is a hidden gem of short-grass prairies and pine-studded canyons that touch peoples hearts. Wed purchased a ranch there and moved in the previous fall. Now in 2024 we started surveying the 160 acres of prairie and spring-fed wetlands so we could provide support to the healthy prairie ecosystem that could and would develop there. Natural habitats permitted to have and express their own agency give visitors the best opportunities to learn in ways they often remember from childhood and are pleased to recover re-experience and develop further. We made lists of necessary improvements we need to make such as replacing 50-year-old fences so guests and neighboring cattle dont meet by surprise. We began to document returning plant species and a staff member took grassland coursework from the Nebraska Natural Resources Conservation Services US Dept. Agriculture to learn more about local plants. We removed numerous invasive cedar trees in several areas and cut down a lot of the Canada thistle thats listed as a noxious weed by the state so not permitted to flower. In winter mule deer came down off Pine Ridge to shelter in a riparian area of young cottonwoods along the edge of the wetlands and antelope bedded in the long grass there. Come spring and then summer teals ducks and herons nested and raised young there. Deer fawned in a grove of old cottonwoods on the upland end of the property. Burrowing owls moved into the pasture where the Mustangs grazed. By the end of our first year the prairie was starting to come back.
  Expenses $79,629
• Mustangs have been an important part of Tapestrys programs for more than 20 years but our Horse Ibachakali program was seriously limited by the urban Colorado environment wed hoped would allow us to serve more individuals. Escalating costs of land there meant our programs couldnt operate effectively. The four Mustangs remaining from our urban Ibachakali program had arrived at our new ranch facility one week after wed moved in the previous fall 2023. In 2024 we began rehabilitating them from the typical urban dry lot conditions theyd been living in that Mustangs find difficult to handle. Then we began retraining them for engagement with learners. The Mustangs needed more room than they had at first so we fenced in a large area of grassland close to the corral-and-pasture area of the ranch acreage next to the barn and corrals. This allowed the horses to get more exercise and move about naturally. We didnt turn them out into the prairie that was just beginning to grow back but at some point will periodically rotate horses onto the prairie for the benefit of both since grasslands and horses are naturally co-adapted. Casual visitors to the ranch began to engage with these horses before the first year was out. We were pleased to see the horses once again teaching and healing people on their own and it seemed they felt equally pleased at being able to do it again.
  Expenses $59,263
• Tapestrys IKhana Fund team had met in May 2023 to continue planning a Land-based program of support for Indigenous Knowledge and during the fiscal year that followed this we Tapestry staff started major research and writing to develop three reports about the insights that emerged during that meeting. These reports reach out to funders of the dominant culture who want to support Indigenous projects that improve the health and well-being of everything from city parks and waterways to wilderness areas and scenic rivers -- and the healthy well-being of all the people who engage with these places too. But funders from the dominant culture often dont understand the Indigenous people theyre trying to engage and support in mutually beneficial ways. So they have a hard time knowing how to proceed when trying to establish collaborative relationships with Indigenous communities. The reports from our second IKhana Fund meeting explain certain fundamentals of Indigenous ways that can help non-Indigenous allies better understand and relate with us to our mutual benefit. In addition to this the variety of different ways of knowing and learning that Indigenous people still use are valuable to every person and the impact of people remembering how to learn this way benefits the planet itself. Those ways of knowing and learning which are used and explained in the 2023 report publications reconnect even metropolitan urbanites with the outdoors in ways that are essential to the mutual health and well-being of both people and places. By the end of the 2024 fiscal year rough drafts of all three reports had been written and the first two were being finalized for publication in early 2025. Each of those first two reports is about 50,000 words long and contains original photos taken by Tapestry staff.
  Expenses $64,438
• With the explosive change in Tapestrys funding and the purchase of a ranch which allowed Tapestry to move forward with our Horse Ibachakali and Prairie and Wetland programs our law program continued to focus on research about the ever-shifting parts of environmental law. We expanded the program to include information about US Indian law and policy which is different from Indigenous law because these areas can greatly influence and impact environmental law.
  Expenses $12,557

What it must file and when

IRS records say it files Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N. Its accounting year ends in December, so each return is due on the 15th day of the 5th month after that.

IRS record

EIN

74-2871617

Tax-exempt status

501(c)(3): Charitable, religious, educational or scientific organization

Foundation status

Publicly supported organization (170(b)(1)(A)(vi))

Donations deductible (Pub 78)

Public charity, 50% deduction limit

Exempt since

1999

Accounting year ends

December

Files

Form 990 or 990-EZ

Category (NTEE)

Human services (P40)

Assets (IRS master file)

$1,490,560

Income (IRS master file)

$184,809

Filing history

990-N: the IRS bulk file holds only the latest e-Postcard per organization; earlier years come from archived copies of that file since 2020 and can have gaps (the IRS e-Postcard search lists every one). 990, 990-EZ, 990-PF, 990-T: every e-filed return in the IRS e-file index since 2019; XML for the latest three processing years, amounts from the IRS Statistics of Income extracts before that. PDF copies and determination letters at the IRS (search EIN 74-2871617).

Questions about TAPESTRY INSTITUTE

What is the EIN of TAPESTRY INSTITUTE?

The employer identification number (EIN) of TAPESTRY INSTITUTE is 74-2871617.

Is TAPESTRY INSTITUTE tax-exempt?

Yes. The IRS lists it as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) since 1999.

Are donations to TAPESTRY INSTITUTE tax-deductible?

Yes. It is listed in IRS Publication 78 (Public charity, 50% deduction limit).

Which annual return does TAPESTRY INSTITUTE file?

Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N.

When is the next return of TAPESTRY INSTITUTE due?

The return for tax year 2025 (the year ending December 31, 2025) is due May 15, 2026. Form 8868 extends it by six months; the 990-N cannot be extended.

When did TAPESTRY INSTITUTE last file with the IRS?

The latest return in the IRS public files is the 990 for the year ended December 2024.

Who is the principal officer of TAPESTRY INSTITUTE?

The 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024 names Joanne Belasco.

Who are the officers and directors of TAPESTRY INSTITUTE?

The 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024 lists 6 people; 2 received compensation from the organization, the highest $56,000 (Jo Belasco Esq, Co-President of Board and Tapestry).

How much revenue does TAPESTRY INSTITUTE have?

On its 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024 it reported revenue of $184,809, expenses of $225,503 and total assets of $1,490,560 at year end.

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