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AMERICAN INDIAN HIGHER EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC
AMERICAN INDIAN HIGHER EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC (Virginia) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,943,047 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($20,000,250). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $35M
- Net assets
- $30M
What American Indian Higher Education Consortium Inc does
Mission
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 nations; and through our unique position, serve member institutions and emerging tcus.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Other private funding:through mellon's native language preservation award, aihec seeks to establish a networked virtual national tribal college and universities' center of excellence on native language. Additionally this funding will be used to create an anthology of sixouan literature in translation. Bill and melinda gates foundation: intermediaries for scale program: this program will effect institutional transformation at scale by utilizing resources provided by the bill and melinda gates foundation for adopting,implementing, evaluating, and sustaining changes in policy and practice to ready aihec to become an intermediary for scale (ifs).
$8,191,056 spentof which $2,140,875 as grants$1,379,147 earned by the program65% of program spendingBie technical assistance: aihec technical assistance program advances tcus' capacity to achieve their individual and collective missions, improve students' success, and maintain accreditation. The broad range of services upon which tcus depend include the coordination of annual collection and analysis of comprehensive institutional data to aid tcus with compliance with increasingly more rigorous accreditation standards and compliance reporting requirements; resolution of issues and challenges with federally-administered grants and programs; disseminating timely and accurate information regarding pending federal programmatic and legislative/appropriations matters of direct relevance to tcus; facilitation of meetings and fostering communities of practice that provide networking opportunities and sharing of best practices.
$3,077,561 spentof which $1,828,569 as grants24% of program spendingNational science foundation program: cc*team: piloting a ci-enabled tribal college and university research collaboration: aihec will implement a cyberinfrastructure project to establish socio-technical foundation of an nd research infrastructure.
$1,325,534 spentof which $64,373 as grants11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,594,151.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $6.7M to $30M (+342%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 68% · 2018 72% · 2019 69% · 2020 66% · 2021 46% · 2022 37% · 2023 69% · 2024 41% · 2025 50%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Ahniwake L Rose
President & CEO
Board chair
David Yarlott Jr
President/chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $5k → $3.3M.
2 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.1M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest American Indian College Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money AMERICAN INDIAN HIGHER EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC raised.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN INDIAN HIGHER EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 18 of 19 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AMERICAN INDIAN HIGHER EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
58% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AMERICAN INDIAN HIGHER EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 63% · 2020 95% · 2021 89% · 2022 78% · 2023 75% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
14% of AMERICAN INDIAN HIGHER EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 37% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
57% of AMERICAN INDIAN HIGHER EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $15M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 13 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Government funding AMERICAN INDIAN HIGHER EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $69.7M on record.
- Department of the Interior$39.3M
- National Science Foundation$9.2M
- Department of Health and Human Services$8.9M
- Department of Agriculture$4.7M
- Department of Energy$3.2M
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$2.1M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like AMERICAN INDIAN HIGHER EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- American Indian Higher Education Reit · partnership
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN HIGHER EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC?
- AMERICAN INDIAN HIGHER EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC (Virginia) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,943,047 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($20,000,250). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AMERICAN INDIAN HIGHER EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $34,943,047 in grants to AMERICAN INDIAN HIGHER EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN INDIAN HIGHER EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $20,000,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN INDIAN HIGHER EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 19 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing