Virginia · 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). Aihec provides leadership and influences public policy on american indian higher education issues through advocacy, research, and program initiatives; promotes and strengthens indigenous languages, cultures, communities, and tribal…
- $4.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 37
- Grants FY2025
- 36
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 3%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $47,607
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $535,492
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 36
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 18
- Total assets, FY2025
- $35M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 3% of the organizations American Indian Higher Education Consortium Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 61% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 36 | $3.9M | 14% |
| FY2024 | 36 | $2.1M | 3% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $3.0M | 23% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $2.4M | 8% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $21M | 37% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $4.1M | 20% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $1.3M | 14% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $1.4M | 35% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Institute of American Indian Arts Foundation | $13,638,726 | 4 | 9% |
| Fond Du Lac Tribal & Community College | $8,720,029 | 2 | n/a |
| Navajo Technical University | $2,893,037 | 9 | 1% |
| United Tribes Technical College | $1,827,203 | 7 | 2% |
| Fond Du Lac Tribal and Community College Foundation | $1,372,106 | 4 | 22% |
| American Indian Law Centerinc | $1,300,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Turtle Mountain Community College | $1,280,272 | 9 | 1% |
| Bay Mills Community College | $1,181,452 | 7 | n/a |
| Cankdeska Cikana Community College | $1,083,383 | 9 | 2% |
| Salish Kootenai College | $675,100 | 4 | n/a |
Show all 54 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Institute of American Indian Arts Foundation | $13,638,726 | 4 | 9% |
| Fond Du Lac Tribal & Community College | $8,720,029 | 2 | n/a |
| Navajo Technical University | $2,893,037 | 9 | 1% |
| United Tribes Technical College | $1,827,203 | 7 | 2% |
| Fond Du Lac Tribal and Community College Foundation | $1,372,106 | 4 | 22% |
| American Indian Law Centerinc | $1,300,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Turtle Mountain Community College | $1,280,272 | 9 | 1% |
| Bay Mills Community College | $1,181,452 | 7 | n/a |
| Cankdeska Cikana Community College | $1,083,383 | 9 | 2% |
| Salish Kootenai College | $675,100 | 4 | n/a |
| Institute of American Indian Arts & Alaska Native | $502,142 | 2 | 0% |
| Blackfeet Community College | $445,530 | 8 | 1% |
| Salish Kootenai College Inc | $415,677 | 5 | 0% |
| College of the Menominee Nation | $404,479 | 8 | 2% |
| University of North Dakota-College of Business & Public Admin | $363,131 | 3 | n/a |
| Sitting Bull College | $325,975 | 6 | 1% |
| Northwest Indian College | $268,574 | 5 | 0% |
| Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College | $230,548 | 6 | n/a |
| North Dakota State University | $208,091 | 4 | n/a |
| Little Priest Tribal College | $203,857 | 7 | 1% |
| Lightcast | $197,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Fort Peck Community College | $187,276 | 6 | 1% |
| Red Lake Nation College | $184,808 | 4 | 0% |
| Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska | $180,514 | 4 | n/a |
| National Association of Student Personnel Administrators Inc | $172,700 | 1 | 1% |
| Tohono O'Odham Community College | $170,314 | 4 | 1% |
| Board of RegentsSouthwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute | $144,390 | 3 | 22% |
| Haskell Foundation | $141,852 | 4 | 7% |
| Dine College | $136,918 | 4 | n/a |
| Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College | $136,015 | 4 | n/a |
| Ilisagvik College | $123,719 | 5 | 1% |
| Stone Child College | $117,768 | 3 | 1% |
| Leech Lake Tribal College | $115,975 | 3 | n/a |
| Oglala Lakota College | $115,735 | 5 | 0% |
| White Earth Tribal and Community College | $111,480 | 4 | 0% |
| Aaniiih Nakoda College (Fort Belknap College) | $92,750 | 3 | 1% |
| Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa College | $83,000 | 2 | n/a |
| College of the Muscogee Nation | $77,105 | 3 | n/a |
| Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe University | $72,657 | 4 | 0% |
| Little Big Horn College | $63,749 | 3 | n/a |
| Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe School | $53,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Saginaw Chippewa Tribal College | $52,905 | 3 | n/a |
| The Association for Institutional Research | $47,607 | 1 | n/a |
| Native Research Network Inc | $34,394 | 2 | 27% |
| Sinte Gleska College Center Inc | $33,300 | 3 | n/a |
| Blackfeet Tribe | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Chief Dull Knife College | $29,204 | 2 | 0% |
| Muscogee (Creek) Nation | $26,794 | 1 | n/a |
| Student Ready Strategies LLC | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sisseton Wahpeton College | $21,949 | 2 | n/a |
| Achieving the Dream Inc | $17,430 | 1 | 0% |
| Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Fond Du Lac Tribal and Community College | $8,400 | 1 | n/a |
| Institute of American Indian Arts Trust | $8,400 | 1 | 1% |
Where it is load-bearing
American Indian Higher Education Consortium Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 31 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 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
How this is measured
Compare American Indian Higher Education Consortium Inc with peer funders
About American Indian Higher Education Consortium Inc
- How much does American Indian Higher Education Consortium Inc give?
- American Indian Higher Education Consortium Inc reported 37 grants totaling $4,033,817 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 36 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does American Indian Higher Education Consortium Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (37%), Education (32%), Public Safety & Disaster (21%).
- Who are American Indian Higher Education Consortium Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Institute of American Indian Arts Foundation ($14M), Fond Du Lac Tribal & Community College ($8.7M), Navajo Technical University ($2.9M).
- Does American Indian Higher Education Consortium Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as American Indian Higher Education Consortium Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ascendium Education Solutions Inc, American Indian College Fund, First Nations Development Institute.
- Where is American Indian Higher Education Consortium Inc based?
- American Indian Higher Education Consortium Inc is based in VA.
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