South Dakota · Nonprofit
OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE
OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE (South Dakota) receives grants from 72 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,612,384 to it, the largest being AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ($2,773,888). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $44M
- Funders on record
- 72
- Grants received
- $7.6M
- Net assets
- $132M
What Oglala Lakota College does
Mission
The mission which emanates from the charter of the oglala sioux tribe is to educate students for professional and vocational employment opportunities in lakota country. The college will graduate well-rounded students grounded in wolakolkiciyapi-learning lakota ways of life in the community by teaching lakota culture and language as part of preparing students to participate in a multicultural world. In achieving the mission, Oglala Lakota College has the following purposes: tribal -provides the lakota with outstanding graduates -promotes the study and practice of tribal sovereignty -works with tribal entities toward building our nation -helps students to gain meaningful employment and healthy lifestyles cultural -utilizes lakota cultural values in all learning frameworks -celebrates lakota culture including sacred songs and ceremonies -research, study, facilitate, and disseminate lakota language, culture and philosophy -provides leadership to maintain and revitalize lakota culture and p
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Olc's primary program is education. Provided approximately 1,250 students with opportunities for certificates, associate, bachelor and master degrees in a variety of fields. Research opportunities are also provided as part of the educational program.
$21,537,035 spentof which $8,108,213 as grants$1,910,735 earned by the program75% of program spendingOlc's goal for the headstart program is to provide a full range of services to meet the needs of lakota children from 0-5 and their families addressing cognitive,emotional, physical, nutritional, mental health, and lakota language and culture development of children and the development needs of families.
$7,073,515 spent25% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $28,610,550.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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 $102M to $137M (+35%).
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 60% · 2018 70% · 2019 69% · 2020 69% · 2021 71% · 2022 70% · 2023 72% · 2024 68% · 2025 62%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $377k → $898k.
14 of 72 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 72 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
OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 36% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
67% 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 OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 32% · 2019 25% · 2020 45% · 2021 46% · 2022 41% · 2023 20% — 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
55% of OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside South Dakota, across 26 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.
Against its field
OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $261.0M on record.
- Department of the Interior$101.7M
- Department of Education$78.0M
- Department of Health and Human Services$67.5M
- Department of Agriculture$7.1M
- National Science Foundation$6.6M
- National Endowment for the Humanities$234k
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 OGLALA LAKOTA 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 South Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE?
- OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE (South Dakota) receives grants from 72 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,612,384 to it, the largest being AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ($2,773,888). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE have?
- IRS filings report 72 organizations giving $7,612,384 in grants to OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE, 42 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE?
- AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,773,888 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Dakota. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 72 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