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LEECH LAKE TRIBAL COLLEGE

LEECH LAKE TRIBAL COLLEGE (Minnesota) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,748,724 to it, the largest being AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ($1,119,747). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2020
$6.4M
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$1.7M
Net assets
$12M
10/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Leech Lake Tribal College does

Mission

To provide quality higher education grounded in anishinaabe values.

As stated on its FY2020 Form 990.

Program

To provide post-secondary and higher education for the leech lakereservation, resulting in associates of science and applied sciencedegrees and occupational skills certificates.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.

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 ($8.6M) Expenses 100 ($8.5M) Net assets 100 ($12M)2018 Revenue 71 ($6.1M) Expenses 74 ($6.3M) Net assets 100 ($12M)2019 Revenue 72 ($6.2M) Expenses 74 ($6.3M) Net assets 101 ($12M)2020 Revenue 74 ($6.4M) Expenses 75 ($6.4M) Net assets 102 ($12M)
2017201820192020
Revenue (74)Expenses (75)Net assets (102)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $13M to $14M (+9%).

$13M
$13M
$13M
$14M
2017201820192020
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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 81% · 2018 70% · 2019 70% · 2020 73%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$147k
’17
−$151k
’18
−$66k
’19
−$2k
’20
3.2
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.

2017201820192020
Listed1113119
Joined·+5+3+1
No longer listed·353
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $201k → $144k.

4 of 13 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 LEECH LAKE TRIBAL COLLEGE’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

LEECH LAKE TRIBAL COLLEGE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

96% 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 LEECH LAKE TRIBAL COLLEGE.

64%
largest funder
85%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 92% · 2019 52% · 2020 51% · 2021 66% · 2022 73% · 2023 81% — growing more concentrated.

“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

44% of LEECH LAKE TRIBAL COLLEGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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

LEECH LAKE TRIBAL COLLEGE draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 8 states in all.

MN
WI
NY
CO
NE
MO
VA
FL

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $117k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 LEECH LAKE TRIBAL COLLEGE receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $47.5M on record.

Federal$47.5M
grants $47.5Mcontracts $31k
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23
24
25
26
Top agencies
  • Department of the Interior$21.2M
  • Department of Education$20.3M
  • Department of Agriculture$5.5M
  • National Science Foundation$506k
  • Environmental Protection Agency$25k
  • Department of Health and Human Services$6k

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 LEECH LAKE TRIBAL COLLEGE

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 Minnesota

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

62% of spending goes to programs.

Program 62%Management 38%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
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

MN

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds LEECH LAKE TRIBAL COLLEGE?
LEECH LAKE TRIBAL COLLEGE (Minnesota) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,748,724 to it, the largest being AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ($1,119,747). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LEECH LAKE TRIBAL COLLEGE have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,748,724 in grants to LEECH LAKE TRIBAL COLLEGE, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LEECH LAKE TRIBAL COLLEGE?
AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,119,747 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LEECH LAKE TRIBAL COLLEGE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), and the filings of 13 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