How much did AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

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2020

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2021

native-ledfoundingeducation advocacynative native

2022

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2023

readinesspine ridgedistrictcounselorspost secondarymentorshipsemester

2024

readiness

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k2 grants · $16k
$10k–50k4 grants · $85k
$50k–250k8 grants · $1.1M
$250k+27 grants · $16M

$563,503

Median grant

States reached

$203M

Total assets

Largest grants

AANIIIH NAKODA COLLEGE$936,733
TOHONO O'ODHAM COMMUNITY COLLEGE$818,003
SITTING BULL COLLEGE$758,603
SINTE GLESKA UNIVERSITY$756,453
KEWEENAW BAY OJIBWA COMMUNITY COLLEGE$740,003
COLLEGE OF THE MUSCOGEE NATION$684,503
SAGINAW CHIPPEWA TRIBAL COLLEGE$673,603
DINE COLLEGE$639,003
NAVAJO TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY$628,503
BLACKFEET COMMUNITY COLLEGE$624,833
NORTHWEST INDIAN COLLEGE$624,503
FORT PECK COMMUNITY COLLEGE$613,233
TURTLE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE$610,103
LITTLE PRIEST TRIBAL COLLEGE$605,003
COLLEGE OF THE MENOMINEE NATION$602,003

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$54M · 41 repeat orgs$274k to everyone else

41 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$54M

$266k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%

+71%

Still filing today

56%

37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

OL
OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE
7× · 2018–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +36%
SK
SALISH KOOTENAI COLLEGE
7× · 2018–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +92%
CO
COLLEGE OF THE MENOMINEE NATION
7× · 2018–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +55%

Funded once

NW
NATIVE WAYS FEDERATIONgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $140k · revenue +475%
DH
DODSON HIGH SCHOOL
one grant, 2023 · $11k
SF
ST FRANCIS INDIAN SCHOOLgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue +27%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

California Indian Nations College

California Indian Nations College (CINC) is dedicated to building educational strength and will provide educational opportunities for indigenous.

Education

Northwest Indian College Foundation

To provide excellent educational programs and services in a native american college environment on reservations throughout the northwest.

Education

North Dakota Tribal College System

Advancing tribal colleges through collaboration and shared goals. ndtcs leverages the higher education experience by sharing ideas and broadening networks and alliances, toward improving students outcomes. ndtcs empowers students to…

Education

Aigc Scholars

To build, promote and honor self-sustaining american indian and alaska native communities through education and leadership.

Education

Institute of American Indian Arts & Alaska Native

To provide education and instruction in the scholarly study and preservation of indian art to empower creativity and leadership in native arts and cultures through higher education, life-long learning and outreach.

Education

American Indian College Fund

The college fund provides scholarships to thousands of american indian students annually.

Education

Northern New Mexico College

Increase, manage, and distribute resources for the benefit of the students, the college, and the community.

Education

New York College of Traditional Chinese

To offer postsecondary education in acupuncture and chinese herbal medicine

Education

North American University

North american university (nau) is a private and non-profit institution offering bachelor's and master's degrees. the university is committed to teaching excellence and being student centered. nau strives to provide an environment…

Education

Alaska Pacific University

Innovative teaching and learning where students receive personal attention and acquire leadership capabilities, moral character, and self-direction through active learning.

Education

Rural Regional College of Northern

To provide affordable and accessible post-secondary education to the residents of northern pennsylvania.

Education

American Institute of Indian Studies

Dedicated to the advancement of knowledge about India and the promotion of intellectual engagement with India in American universities by providing research fellowship support, training in Indian languages, knowledge of Indian culture, and…

Social Science

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Salish Kootenai College Inc and the most unlike its peers is Native Forward Scholars Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3/60

the rest of the field

11%

206,161/1,819,505

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

36 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

33/36

Grantees still filing

34/36

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$33,426,885Education$21,000,870Philanthropy$140,444Recreation & Sports$6,000Human Services$4,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Ascendium Education Solutions IncWI71× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · American Indian Higher Education · First Nations Development Institute · Achieving the Dream Inc · Theodore R and Vivian M · Northwest Area Foundation · Sovereign Equity Fund · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Ndn Collective Inc · The Aspen Institute Inc · North Dakota Community Foundation · South Dakota Community Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SOUTHWESTERN INDIAN POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~13 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 850235298 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on SOUTHWESTERN INDIAN POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 13 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 99% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to American Indian College Fund?

Find your warmest path to American Indian College Fund through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

36 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to American Indian College Fund?

More from the funding graph

AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

36 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to American Indian College Fund?

More from the funding graph