American Indian Higher Education
Alexandria, VA · EIN 84-0640326. Reported 103 grants totalling $28.4M to 44 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 44 distinct organizations, with 43% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
- How much its list changes. 90% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $32,852. Half of what it reported fell between $19,500 and $59,958; the smallest was $6,121 and the largest $11.3M. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Institute of American Indian Arts Foundation | Santa Fe, NM | $12.2M | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Fond Du Lac Tribal & Community College | Cloquet, MN | $7,710,530 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Navajo Technical College | Crownpoint, NM | $1,360,844 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| American Indian Law Center Inc | Albuquerque, NM | $1,300,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| United Tribes Technical College | Bismarck, ND | $1,086,711 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Fond Du Lac Tribal and Community College Foundation | Cloquet, MN | $905,214 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Turtle Mountain College | Belcourt, ND | $517,659 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Cankdeska Cikana Community College | Fort Totten, ND | $413,681 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Salish Kootenai College Inc | Pablo, MT | $315,625 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Sitting Bull College | Fort Yates, ND | $307,825 | 6 | 4 | 2023 |
| Bay Mills Community College | Brimley, MI | $266,294 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| North Dakota State University | Fargo, ND | $208,091 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College | New Town, ND | $177,398 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Blackfeet Community College | Browning, MT | $127,380 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Oglala Lakota College | Kyle, SD | $127,026 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska | Lincoln, NE | $107,894 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of North Dakota | Grand Forks, ND | $95,088 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Fort Peck Community College | Poplar, MT | $94,526 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Little Priest Tribal College | Winnebago, NE | $88,107 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College | Lanse, MI | $84,471 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| College of the Menominee Nation | Keshena, WI | $75,330 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Nebraska Community Foundation | Lincoln, NE | $73,486 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Tohono O Odham Community College | Sells, AZ | $65,314 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Northwest Indian College | Bellingham, WA | $56,729 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe University | Hayward, WI | $54,507 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe School | Hayward, WI | $53,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| College of the Muscogee Nation | Okmulgee, OK | $52,355 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Stone Child College Corporation | Box Elder, MT | $49,338 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Red Lake Nation College | Red Lake, MN | $47,608 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Northwest Indian Colleges | Bellingham, WA | $46,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Little Big Horn College | Crow Agency, MT | $44,249 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Saginaw Chippewa Tribal College | Mt Pleasant, MI | $43,155 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Leech Lake Tribal College | Cass Lake, MN | $35,975 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Board of Regents Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute | Albuquerque, NM | $34,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| White Earth Tribal and Community College | Mahnomen, MN | $34,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Ilisagvik College | Barrow, AK | $30,969 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Chief Dull Knife College | Lame Deer, MT | $29,204 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| College of Muscogee Nation | Okmulgee, OK | $26,794 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College | Lanse, MI | $26,794 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Sisseton Wahpeton College | Agency Vlg, SD | $21,949 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Aaniiih Nakoda College | Harlem, MT | $9,750 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Dine College | Tsaile, AZ | $9,750 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Haskell Foundation | Lawrence, KS | $9,750 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sinte Gleska College Center Inc | Mission, SD | $9,750 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
33 of 44 (75%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Institute of American Indian Arts
COVID RELIEF/CONSTRUCTION FUNDS - Navajo Technical University
FACILITIES AND REQUIREMENTS ,NSF TCU ADVANCED MANUFACTURING NETWORK MEETING - United Tribes Technical College
FACILITIES AND REQUIREMENTS (CONSTRUCTION AND RENOVATION) PASSTHROUGH FUNDING, DOE ADVANCED MANUFACTURING, NSF PILOTING A CI-ENABLED RESEARCH TRAINING II - Fond Du Lac Tribal and Community College
FACILITIES AND REQUIREMENTS - Cankdeska Cikana Community College
DOE ADVANCED MANUFACTURING; NSF PILOTING A CI-ENABLED TCU RESEARCH COLLABORATION; & EXCITE: EXTENSION COLLABORATIVE ON IMMUNIZATION, TEACHING, & ENGAGEMENT - Bay Mills Community College
DOE ADVANCED MANUFACTURING & EXCITE: EXTENSION COLLABORATIVE ON IMMUNIZATION, TEACHING, & ENGAGEMENT
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 22 of 44 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 20 | $20.8M | $54,152 |
| 2021 | 14 | $2,387,438 | $63,371 |
| 2022 | 32 | $3,026,015 | $32,929 |
| 2023 | 37 | $2,147,927 | $19,500 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
52% of its giving went to organizations in New Mexico. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $32,852 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New Mexico.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from American Indian Higher Education's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 34 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 3 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 121 Oronoco St, Alexandria, VA, 22314.
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