Title 25 › CHAPTER 20 — TRIBALLY CONTROLLED COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES ASSISTANCE › SUBCHAPTER II — TRIBALLY CONTROLLED COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY ENDOWMENT PROGRAM › § 1832
The Secretary must use money from section 1836 to give endowment grants to tribally controlled colleges or universities that already get help under section 1807 or section 3 of the Navajo Community College Act. A school can get grants in more than one year, but it cannot get a grant for any fiscal year if it already got a grant under section 1065 of title 20 for that same year. Grants only happen if the school signs an agreement with the Secretary. The agreement must set up a trust fund (a tax‑exempt fund run by the school or its foundation that can include real estate) and invest it the same way as funds under section 1065(c)(2) of title 20. The trust must receive federal capital from section 1836, a school contribution equal to half of each federal contribution, and any earnings. Money must earn at least the usual bank rate for similar funds. If the school ever withdraws its own capital, the school must return to the Secretary twice that amount of federal money for reallocation. Net earnings cannot benefit any private person. The agreement must also include other protections for the United States and recordkeeping that lets the Secretary audit how accumulated interest is spent.
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25 U.S.C. § 1832
Title 25, Indians
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Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102