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COLLEGE OF THE MENOMINEE NATION

COLLEGE OF THE MENOMINEE NATION (Wisconsin) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,059,562 to it, the largest being AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ($2,753,852). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$17M
Funders on record
23
Grants received
$9.1M
Net assets
$19M
12/23 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 20%
01What it does

What College of the Menominee Nation does

Mission

As a land grant institution of higher education chartered by the menominee people, the college of menominee nation infuses learning with american indian culture and prepares students for leadership, careers, and advanced studies in a multicultural world. The college commits to research and promotion, perpetuation, and nurturance of american indian language and scholarship.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To provide a quality environmental and educational experience to native american and non-indian students, including the award of scholarships to native american students who meet the award criteria. Also, to grant public access to technology and training programs for all surrounding communities.

    $11,685,713 spentof which $1,344,241 as grants$115,705 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $11,685,713.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($11M) Expenses 100 ($12M) Net assets 100 ($11M)2018 Revenue 79 ($9.0M) Expenses 77 ($9.3M) Net assets 109 ($12M)2019 Revenue 78 ($8.8M) Expenses 79 ($9.5M) Net assets 105 ($12M)2020 Revenue 71 ($8.1M) Expenses 76 ($9.1M) Net assets 97 ($11M)2021 Revenue 102 ($12M) Expenses 78 ($9.4M) Net assets 126 ($14M)2022 Revenue 104 ($12M) Expenses 99 ($12M) Net assets 118 ($13M)2023 Revenue 122 ($14M) Expenses 110 ($13M) Net assets 125 ($14M)2024 Revenue 136 ($15M) Expenses 105 ($13M) Net assets 155 ($17M)2025 Revenue 154 ($17M) Expenses 133 ($16M) Net assets 171 ($19M)
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Revenue (154)Expenses (133)Net assets (171)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $16M to $22M (+42%).

$14M
$14M
$13M
$13M
$16M
$22M
$20M
$24M
$24M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 80% · 2018 80% · 2019 80% · 2020 79% · 2021 86% · 2022 90% · 2023 92% · 2024 93% · 2025 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$684k
’17
−$355k
’18
−$625k
’19
−$1.1M
’20
$2.2M
’21
−$54k
’22
$653k
’23
$2.8M
’24
$1.4M
’25
0.5
months of
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.

Board chair

Gary Frechette

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed91212121010101213
Joined·+5+0+3+3+1+1+2+2
No longer listed·20351101
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $448k → $2.8M.

4 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of COLLEGE OF THE MENOMINEE NATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

COLLEGE OF THE MENOMINEE NATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

65% 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 COLLEGE OF THE MENOMINEE NATION.

30%
largest funder
60%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 46% · 2019 62% · 2020 40% · 2021 31% · 2022 29% · 2023 36% — 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

60% of COLLEGE OF THE MENOMINEE NATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

COLLEGE OF THE MENOMINEE NATION draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 11 states in all.

ND
IL
WI
NY
MA
SD
CA
CO
VA
MD
DE

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $598k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding COLLEGE OF THE MENOMINEE NATION receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $78.1M on record.

Federal$78.1M
grants $78.1Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Education$28.2M
  • Department of the Interior$25.1M
  • Department of Agriculture$21.4M
  • Department of Health and Human Services$1.7M
  • National Science Foundation$1.6M
  • Environmental Protection Agency$50k

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 COLLEGE OF THE MENOMINEE NATION

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 Wisconsin

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

73% of spending goes to programs.

Program 73%Management 27%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

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Questions and answers

Who funds COLLEGE OF THE MENOMINEE NATION?
COLLEGE OF THE MENOMINEE NATION (Wisconsin) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,059,562 to it, the largest being AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ($2,753,852). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COLLEGE OF THE MENOMINEE NATION have?
IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $9,059,562 in grants to COLLEGE OF THE MENOMINEE NATION, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COLLEGE OF THE MENOMINEE NATION?
AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,753,852 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COLLEGE OF THE MENOMINEE NATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 23 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing