· Public charity
American Indian Higher Education Consortium Inc
Aihec is the collective spirit and unifying voice of our nation's tribal colleges and universities (tcus).
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 82% of American Indian Higher Education Consortium Inc’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 37 grants below total $2,147,927 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,656,744 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $508,817 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $98k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $549k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $202k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| American Indian Law Cntr Inc | $1,300,000 |
| KEWEENAW BAY OJIBWA COMM COLL | $78,350 |
| University of North Dakota | $71,740 |
| NUETA HIDATSA SAHNISH COLLEGE | $51,500 |
| TURTLE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY COL | $45,750 |
| SITTING BULL COLLEGE | $41,750 |
| SALISH KOOTENAI COLLEGE | $39,500 |
| SW Indian Polytech Institute | $34,500 |
| NORTHWEST INDIAN COLLEGE | $31,500 |
| CANKDESKA CIKANA COMM COL | $30,750 |
| NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY | $28,510 |
| COLL OF THE MUSCOGEE NATION | $22,750 |
| LAC COURTE OREILLES OJIBWA CC | $21,500 |
| LEECH LAKE TRIBAL COLLEGE | $19,750 |
| TOHONO OODHAM COMMUNITY COLL | $19,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 68% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
41 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- IOINSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN ARTS FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2023 · $14M · revenue +154%
- NTNAVAJO TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +113%
- UTUNITED TRIBES TECHNICAL COLLEGE6× · 2018–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +41%
Funded once
- LCLAC COURTE OREILLES OJIBWE SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $53k · revenue +120%
- IOINSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN ARTS & ALASKA NATIVEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $45k · revenue +89%
- BTBLACKFEET TRIBEone grant, 2019 · $30k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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 college (cinc), is dedicated to building educational strength and will provide educational opportunities leading to degrees for American Indians and all students with indigenous backgrounds
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To offer postsecondary education in acupuncture and chinese herbal medicine
Aihec is the collective spirit and unifying voice of our nation's tribal colleges and universities (tcus). aihec provides leadership and influences public policy on american indian higher education issues through advocacy, research, and…
Apu provides a world-class, hands-on, culturally-responsive educational experience in collaboration with our students, communities, and tribal partners.
Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities accredits institutions of higher education by applying evidence-informed standards and processes to support continuous improvements and promote equitable student achievement and success.
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The american indian institute's mission is to perpetuate the ancient wisdom and cultural heritage of north america's native people and to promote a greater understanding of that wisdom amoung all people.
Educational institution
To operate exclusively for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes. these purposes include, but are not limited to, (i) development, sponsorship and operation of a college of higher education for the benefit of tribal members, and…
To ensure that the student body experiences balanced intellectual, psychological, social and spiritual development, aimed at enabling them to become active productive members of society where they live and work.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Indian College and the most unlike its peers is Native Research Network Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 8% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 50 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAVAJO TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN LAW CENTERINC ↗
- Who funds UNITED TRIBES TECHNICAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TURTLE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CANKDESKA CIKANA COMMUNITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FOND DU LAC TRIBAL AND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLACKFEET COMMUNITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SITTING BULL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SALISH KOOTENAI COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF THE MENOMINEE NATION ↗
- Who funds LITTLE PRIEST TRIBAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FORT PECK COMMUNITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TOHONO O'ODHAM COMMUNITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Board of RegentsSouthwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST INDIAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Ilisagvik College ↗
- Who funds OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Haskell Foundation ↗
- Who funds AANIIIH NAKODA COLLEGE (FORT BELKNAP COLLEGE) ↗
- Who funds LAC COURTE OREILLES OJIBWE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LAC COURTE OREILLES OJIBWE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds STONE CHILD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds RED LAKE NATION COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN ARTS & ALASKA NATIVE ↗
- Who funds WHITE EARTH TRIBAL AND COMMUNITY COLLEGE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · American Indian College Fund · First Nations Development Institute · Achieving the Dream Inc · Theodore R and Vivian M Johnson Scholarship Foundation Inc · Sovereign Equity Fund · Native American Agriculture Fund · Northwest Area Foundation · North Dakota Community Foundation · Helen Gough Fdn Trust · Association of Tribal Archives Libraries & Museums · The Aspen Institute Inc
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 organization American Indian Higher Education Consortium Inc 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.
- Achieving the Dream Inc — 0% of income from government
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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.