· Public charity
Achieving the Dream Inc
To lead and support a national network of community colleges to achieve sustainable institutional transformation through sharing knowledge, innovative solutions and effective practices and policies leading to improved outcomes for all students.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $362,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $606,372 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $243,872 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $235k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AUSTIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT | $120,000 |
| DALLAS COLLEGE EASTFIELD CAMPUS | $30,000 |
| EVERETT COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| CHATTANOOGA STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| TALLAHASSEE STATE COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| NORTH CENTRAL STATE COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| GRAYSON COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| SOUTHWESTERN OREGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| FORSYTH TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| EL PASO COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| ALAMO COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT | $15,000 |
| THE ASPEN INSTITUTE | $7,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 68% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
43 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- RFResearch Foundation of the City University of New York3× · 2017–2024 · $220k · revenue +22%
- ICIlisagvik College3× · 2020–2022 · $120k · revenue +16%
- UTUNITED TRIBES TECHNICAL COLLEGE4× · 2020–2023 · $111k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- FFFOUNDATION FOR THE LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY COLLEGESgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $300k · revenue ×32 · 72% of their budget
- PHPATRICK & HENRY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $235k · revenue +126%
- SMSAN MATEO COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGES DISTRICTone grant, 2017 · $179k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To provide higher education opportunities, at the community college level, including vocational and technical training. as a tribal community college, we emphasize the teaching and learning of dakota culture and language toward the…
The foundation provides academic scholarships and financial support to the college.
To ensure that the student body experiences balanced intellectual, psychological, social and spiritual development, aimed at enabling them to become active productive members of society where they live and work.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Hilbert college is an independent institution of higher learning that embraces its catholic franciscan heritage and values. students from diverse backgrounds are educated in liberal arts and professional programs to become informed…
Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities accredits institutions of higher education by applying evidence-informed standards and processes to support continuous improvements and promote equitable student achievement and success.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Chartered in 1826, lafayette college is dedicated to excellence in undergraduate education. students are engaged in a transformative educational experience that bridges the liberal arts, engineering, and interdisciplinary study. the…
California Indian college (cinc), is dedicated to building educational strength and will provide educational opportunities leading to degrees for American Indians and all students with indigenous backgrounds
The columbia state community college foundation encourages friends, alumni, economic partners and others to invest their time and resources toward improvement of education at columbia state community college and making higher education…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Indian College Fund and the most unlike its peers is University of Hawaii Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 117 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds PATRICK & HENRY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Research Foundation of the City University of New York ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FORT PECK COMMUNITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Ilisagvik College ↗
- Who funds UNITED TRIBES TECHNICAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds EAST LOS ANGELES COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAC COURTE OREILLES OJIBWE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SALISH KOOTENAI COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF THE MENOMINEE NATION ↗
- Who funds STONE CHILD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds AANIIIH NAKODA COLLEGE (FORT BELKNAP COLLEGE) ↗
- Who funds RED LAKE NATION COLLEGE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: American Association of Community Colleges · Jobs for the Future Inc · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · American Indian Higher Education Consortium Inc · American Association of Colleges and Universities · American Indian College Fund · The Aspen Institute Inc · I Car Education Foundation · Mdrc · Foundation for California Community Colleges · Folds of Honor Foundation · Truth Initiative Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Achieving the Dream Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- University of Maryland Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.