Arizona · Nonprofit
TOHONO O'ODHAM COMMUNITY COLLEGE
TOHONO O'ODHAM COMMUNITY COLLEGE (Arizona) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,267,525 to it, the largest being AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ($2,486,089). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $32M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $4.3M
- Net assets
- $34M
What Tohono O'Odham Community College does
Mission
To enhance the o'odham himdag (language, culture, lifeways) by strengthening families through the provision of quality higher education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Student services and student life: salaries and benefits for counselor, admissions staff, staff providing financial aid services including pell grant processing, salary for recruiter, director of center in phoenix, dual enrollment coordinator. Other student support included professional advising by full time advisors coordinating the effort with full-time faculty who also advised students.
$6,094,244 spentof which $4,749,721 as grants$153,078 earned by the program35% of program spendingInstructional services: salaries and benefits for full-time and part-time instructors. Instructors provided both face-to-face and online course offerings helping students earn credits, certificates, and degrees. Student retention increased as well, indicating the quality of instructional services provided.
$5,235,707 spent30% of program spendingSponsored projects: grants in sponsored projects support a range of initiatives that support the mission and vision of the Tohono O'Odham Community College. 1) a multi-year national science foundation (nsf) grant - "tribal enterprise advancement center", supports the effort to revitalize the o'odham language. 2) another nsf grant supports tocc's stem curriculum in the fields of math, chemistry, and biology. As a result, we now have a cadre of students who are pursuing education in stem fields and who can transfer to university upon graduation. 3) a grant from the state of arizona in collaboration with the tohono o' odham nation and the college funds major construction and renovation of college infrastructure. Those funds helped our apprenticeship program rehabilitate a space that serves our carpentry, electrical and plumbing students in their quest to be journey persons in the field and to have gainful employment in construction industries. The funds derive from transaction privilege taxes and the college realizes ca. $40k/month from those revenues. 4) the facilities improvement and repair grant from the bureau of education was used for removal of small structures that had fallen…
$5,158,984 spent30% of program spendingOther services
$768,835 spent4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $17,257,770.
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 $15M to $29M (+91%).
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 24% · 2018 85% · 2019 93% · 2020 93% · 2021 93% · 2022 92% · 2023 89% · 2024 99% · 2025 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of TOHONO O'ODHAM COMMUNITY COLLEGE’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. 2 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.
Board chair
Ofelia Zepeda
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $298k → $324k.
3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 TOHONO O'ODHAM COMMUNITY 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
TOHONO O'ODHAM COMMUNITY COLLEGE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
89% 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 TOHONO O'ODHAM COMMUNITY COLLEGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 62% · 2019 61% · 2020 43% · 2021 38% · 2022 43% · 2023 67% — 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
67% of TOHONO O'ODHAM COMMUNITY COLLEGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
TOHONO O'ODHAM COMMUNITY COLLEGE draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $669k 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.
Against its field
TOHONO O'ODHAM COMMUNITY COLLEGE runs a healthier operating margin 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
Government funding TOHONO O'ODHAM COMMUNITY COLLEGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $102.3M on record.
- Department of the Interior$48.2M
- Department of Education$38.7M
- Department of Agriculture$6.7M
- National Science Foundation$5.6M
- Department of Commerce$1.9M
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.2M
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 TOHONO O'ODHAM COMMUNITY 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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Tohono O'Odham Nation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TOHONO O'ODHAM COMMUNITY COLLEGE?
- TOHONO O'ODHAM COMMUNITY COLLEGE (Arizona) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,267,525 to it, the largest being AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ($2,486,089). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TOHONO O'ODHAM COMMUNITY COLLEGE have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $4,267,525 in grants to TOHONO O'ODHAM COMMUNITY COLLEGE, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TOHONO O'ODHAM COMMUNITY COLLEGE?
- AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,486,089 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TOHONO O'ODHAM COMMUNITY COLLEGE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing