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American Indian College Fund
The AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND invests in native students and tribal college education to transform lives and communities.
- $38M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 38
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 41
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 2%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $14M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $387,053
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $634,551
- Organizations funded a year
- 35 to 57
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $215M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 2% of the organizations American Indian College Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 38 | $14M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 41 | $18M | 2% |
| FY2023 | 57 | $6.4M | 33% |
| FY2022 | 39 | $8.0M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 41 | $9.8M | 12% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $4.2M | 0% |
| FY2019 | 36 | $3.6M | 3% |
| FY2018 | 35 | $4.9M | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salish Kootenai College Inc | $2,882,204 | 9 | 2% |
| United Tribes Technical College | $2,823,680 | 9 | 2% |
| Oglala Lakota College | $2,773,888 | 9 | 1% |
| College of the Menominee Nation | $2,753,852 | 9 | 5% |
| Navajo Technical University | $2,747,902 | 9 | 1% |
| Dine College | $2,723,829 | 9 | n/a |
| Turtle Mountain Community College | $2,639,344 | 9 | 2% |
| Sinte Gleska College Center Inc | $2,612,351 | 9 | n/a |
| Sitting Bull College | $2,585,251 | 9 | 5% |
| Northwest Indian College | $2,505,811 | 9 | 2% |
Show all 57 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salish Kootenai College Inc | $2,882,204 | 9 | 2% |
| United Tribes Technical College | $2,823,680 | 9 | 2% |
| Oglala Lakota College | $2,773,888 | 9 | 1% |
| College of the Menominee Nation | $2,753,852 | 9 | 5% |
| Navajo Technical University | $2,747,902 | 9 | 1% |
| Dine College | $2,723,829 | 9 | n/a |
| Turtle Mountain Community College | $2,639,344 | 9 | 2% |
| Sinte Gleska College Center Inc | $2,612,351 | 9 | n/a |
| Sitting Bull College | $2,585,251 | 9 | 5% |
| Northwest Indian College | $2,505,811 | 9 | 2% |
| Tohono O'Odham Community College | $2,486,089 | 9 | 4% |
| Aaniiih Nakoda College (Fort Belknap College) | $2,393,940 | 9 | 3% |
| Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe University | $2,370,299 | 9 | 4% |
| Bay Mills Community College | $2,318,307 | 9 | n/a |
| Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College | $2,298,819 | 9 | n/a |
| Board of RegentsSouthwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute | $2,090,926 | 9 | 99% |
| Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College | $2,043,395 | 9 | n/a |
| Fort Peck Community College | $2,039,768 | 9 | 4% |
| Stone Child College | $1,971,582 | 9 | 3% |
| Cankdeska Cikana Community College | $1,954,819 | 9 | 3% |
| Blackfeet Community College | $1,850,164 | 9 | 5% |
| Little Priest Tribal College | $1,804,516 | 9 | 6% |
| Ilisagvik College | $1,728,696 | 9 | 3% |
| Little Big Horn College | $1,721,667 | 9 | n/a |
| College of the Muscogee Nation | $1,719,260 | 9 | n/a |
| White Earth Tribal and Community College | $1,583,116 | 9 | 6% |
| Nebraska Indian Community College | $1,538,952 | 9 | n/a |
| Saginaw Chippewa Tribal College | $1,493,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Red Lake Nation College | $1,486,269 | 7 | 4% |
| Institute of American Indian Arts Trust | $1,425,098 | 9 | 10% |
| Fond Du Lac Tribal and Community College | $1,384,080 | 8 | n/a |
| Chief Dull Knife College | $1,354,393 | 9 | 6% |
| Sisseton Wahpeton College | $1,280,139 | 9 | n/a |
| Leech Lake Tribal College | $1,119,747 | 9 | 5% |
| American Indian Higher Education Consortium Inc | $1,082,808 | 9 | 2% |
| Haskell Indian Nations University | $862,806 | 9 | n/a |
| Indigenous Education Inc | $164,092 | 5 | 1% |
| Native Forward Scholars Fund | $145,547 | 5 | 0% |
| The Native Ways Federation Inc | $140,444 | 1 | 10% |
| American Indian Science & Engineering Society | $105,083 | 3 | n/a |
| American Indian Science and Engineering Society | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Hopi Junior Senior High School | $14,300 | 2 | n/a |
| Dodson High School | $11,300 | 1 | n/a |
| Sicangu Oyate Ho Inc Dba St Francis Indian School | $11,000 | 1 | 0% |
| El Reno Public Schools | $11,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Treknorth Junior & Senior High School | $9,600 | 1 | 0% |
| Crazy Horse School | $6,300 | 1 | 0% |
| Pine Ridge High School | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Chippewa Hills High School | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Timber Lake School District 20-3 | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rosebud Scholarship Fund | $6,000 | 1 | 9% |
| School District of Superior | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Montana Post Secondary Educational Opportunities Council | $6,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Wakpala Smee School District | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| MN Alliance With Youth-Promise Fellows | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hays Lodge Pole School District 50 | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Denver Indian Center Inc | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($26k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
American Indian College Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 34 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · American Indian Higher Education Consortium Inc · First Nations Development Institute · Achieving the Dream Inc · Theodore R and Vivian M Johnson Scholarship Foundation Inc · Native American Agriculture Fund · Sovereign Equity Fund · Northwest Area Foundation · Helen Gough Fdn Trust · Ndn Collective Inc · North Dakota Tribal College System · American Indian Youth Running Strong Inc
How this is measured
About American Indian College Fund
- How much does American Indian College Fund give?
- American Indian College Fund reported 38 itemized grants totaling $13,887,686, out of $38,385,304 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 57 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does American Indian College Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (98%), Arts & Culture (2%), Science & Tech (0%).
- Who are American Indian College Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Salish Kootenai College Inc ($2.9M), United Tribes Technical College ($2.8M), Oglala Lakota College ($2.8M).
- Does American Indian College Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 2% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as American Indian College Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ascendium Education Solutions Inc, American Indian Higher Education Consortium Inc, First Nations Development Institute.
- Where is American Indian College Fund based?
- American Indian College Fund is based in CO.
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