Distribution of interest earned in 2023 from the 1994 endowment fund to the individual 1994 institutions

This federal Formula Grant award of $162,944.02, provided by the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Tribal Colleges Endowment Program (CFDA 10.222), supports educational programming at Salish Kootenai College, a tribal college serving the Salish, Kootenai, and Pend d'Oreille people in Montana. The grant provides funding for curriculum development, faculty preparation, and instructional delivery systems in food and agricultural sciences to strengthen the college's teaching programs in these targeted areas relevant to the Indigenous community it serves. This annual Formula Grant award, with a performance period starting September 27, 2024, is part of a program that distributes interest earned from a 1994-established endowment fund to 34 designated tribal college Land Grant Institutions across the United States.

Title v part c of the improving americas schools act of 1994 public law 103-382 (october 20 1994) cited as equity in educational land-grant status act of 1994 provides that certain tribal colleges designated as 1994 institutions receive various benefits. These include contributions by the federal government to an endowment fund the interest income from which is distributed to the 1994 institutions.