South Dakota · Nonprofit
SICANGU OYATE HO INC DBA ST FRANCIS INDIAN SCHOOL
SICANGU OYATE HO INC DBA ST FRANCIS INDIAN SCHOOL (South Dakota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,552 to it, the largest being AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ($11,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $17M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $41k
- Net assets
- $22M
What Sicangu Oyate Ho Inc Dba St Francis Indian School does
Mission
To facilitate the best academic and cultural education with the highest expectations for our students and their families with well trained support staff in a safe and health environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Sicangu oyate ho, inc. Provides k-12 graders with a high quality education rooted in the advancement of nation building. There are several components to nation building at soh: students will live, learn health behaviors, graduate at grade level in reading and math, know who they are as lakota human beings and be critical thinkers. Soh acknowledges the original free and independent existence of the oceti sakowin and continue to educate our youth on their own ancestral languages, cultures, and spiritual and ceremonial traditions. During sy25, there were 658 students at soh.
$18,403,964 spentof which $32,200 as grants$24,300 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $18,403,964.
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 $37M to $46M (+25%).
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 98% · 2018 98% · 2019 97% · 2020 96% · 2021 92% · 2022 99% · 2023 97% · 2024 96% · 2025 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of SICANGU OYATE HO INC DBA ST FRANCIS INDIAN SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $20k → $12k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 SICANGU OYATE HO INC DBA ST FRANCIS INDIAN SCHOOL’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
SICANGU OYATE HO INC DBA ST FRANCIS INDIAN SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 27% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
76% 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 SICANGU OYATE HO INC DBA ST FRANCIS INDIAN SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 92% — 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.
Where its funders are
SICANGU OYATE HO INC DBA ST FRANCIS INDIAN SCHOOL draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside South Dakota, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
SICANGU OYATE HO INC DBA ST FRANCIS INDIAN SCHOOL holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like SICANGU OYATE HO INC DBA ST FRANCIS INDIAN SCHOOL
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SICANGU OYATE HO INC DBA ST FRANCIS INDIAN SCHOOL?
- SICANGU OYATE HO INC DBA ST FRANCIS INDIAN SCHOOL (South Dakota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,552 to it, the largest being AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ($11,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SICANGU OYATE HO INC DBA ST FRANCIS INDIAN SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $40,552 in grants to SICANGU OYATE HO INC DBA ST FRANCIS INDIAN SCHOOL, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SICANGU OYATE HO INC DBA ST FRANCIS INDIAN SCHOOL?
- AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND is the largest funder on record, with $11,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SICANGU OYATE HO INC DBA ST FRANCIS INDIAN SCHOOL 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 5 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