North Dakota · Nonprofit
TRI COLLEGE UNIVERSITY
TRI COLLEGE UNIVERSITY (North Dakota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,500 to it, the largest being FARGO-MOORHEAD AREA FOUNDATION CORPORATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $17k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $0
What Tri College University does
Mission
Assist in establishment and maintenance of coordinated programs among and between north dakota state university, minnesota state university moorhead, concordia college, and minnesota state community and technical college, together with affiliated institutions and supporting agencies and organizations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The organization discontinued all activities other than administration (general fund) were discontinued.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Library - to provide library materials at each campus accessible via the online catalogs ensuring that faculty, staff or students from any of the five partnering institutions have privileges at all four campus libraries. Library co-operation provides a resource of more than 1.25 million books and over 5,000 journals with titles representing all academic disciplines. No activity - remaining fund reserves were split three ways and returned to concordia college, msum, and ndsu in october 2024.
$0 spent0% of program spendingFounders fund - board designated endowment fund established to preserve moneys for the future operations of Tri College University. The endowment investment account was closed in december 2024 and deposited into the organization's checking account.
Wimf endowment - established to provide funds for the "walk into my future" program. The endowment investment account was closed in december 2024 and deposited into the organization's checking account.
Tccif - provide for joint career and internship seminars, workshops, and other events for students (from all member institutions), to help them prepare to enter the workplace. No activity during fy 24-25. Funds were returned to concordia, msum, and ndsu.
$71,921 spent11% of program spendingGeneral: to assist in the establishment and the maintenance of cooperative efforts that enrich the academic environment for the benefit of students, faculty, and the community. These programs include the facilitation of course exchange and coordinated efforts for shared projects, programs, and research.
$610,196 spentof which $610,196 as grants89% of program spendingYouth activity book: donations received for and expenses related to producing a youth activity book promoting the fargo, moorhead area and the five partner college institutions.
Collaborative grants - start up funding for collaborative projects involving programs and/or groups from two or more universities. One grant was awarded in fy23-24.
The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $682,117.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $823k to $0 (−100%).
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 2% · 2018 3% · 2019 2% · 2020 2% · 2021 12% · 2022 4%. 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 8 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
Dr Carrie Brimhall
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $10k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 TRI COLLEGE UNIVERSITY’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
TRI COLLEGE UNIVERSITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 TRI COLLEGE UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“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
51% of TRI COLLEGE UNIVERSITY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from North Dakota funders.
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.
Organizations like TRI COLLEGE UNIVERSITY
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 North Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TRI COLLEGE UNIVERSITY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TRI COLLEGE UNIVERSITY?
- TRI COLLEGE UNIVERSITY (North Dakota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,500 to it, the largest being FARGO-MOORHEAD AREA FOUNDATION CORPORATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TRI COLLEGE UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $19,500 in grants to TRI COLLEGE UNIVERSITY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TRI COLLEGE UNIVERSITY?
- FARGO-MOORHEAD AREA FOUNDATION CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRI COLLEGE UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Dakota. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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