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American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers

To advance and support a richly diverse, globally interconnected community of higher education professionals as well as the institutions, organizations, and learners they serve through its resources, leadership, and advocacy.

$300k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 55% of AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGIATE REGISTRARS AND ADMISSIONS OFFICERS’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $10k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $285k
$12,500
Median grant
12
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMPETENCY-BASED EDUCATION NETWORK$29,935
ASSOCIATION FOR INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH$14,750
UPCEA$14,750
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES$14,750
1EDTECH CONSORTIUM INC$14,750
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STUDENT PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATORS INC$14,750
EDUCAUSE$14,750
NACADA THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY FOR ACADEMIC ADVISING INC$14,750
AMERICAN COUNCIL ON EDUCATION$14,750
DALLAS COLLEGE$12,500
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND GLOBAL CAMPUS$12,500
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$12,500
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY$12,500
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA$12,500
BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY$12,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $30k → 8%DALLAS COLLEGE: $13k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA: $13k → 16%UPCEA: $15k → 14%1EDTECH CONSORTIUM INC: $15k → 11%NORTHERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY: $13k → 11%BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $13k → 16%ALABAMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM: $150k → 18%NACADA THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY FOR ACADEMIC ADVISING INC: $15k → 20%COMPETENCY-BASED EDUCATION NETWORK: $30k → 4%TENNESSEE BOARD OF REGENTS: $75k → 14%THE MARSHALL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $13k → 19%SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SYSTEM: $13k → 23%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND GLOBAL CAMPUS: $13k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY: $13k → 11%AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY COLLEGES: $15k → 14%1EDTECH CONSORTIUM INC: $15k → 11%NACADA THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY FOR ACADEMIC ADVISING INC: $15k → 20%COMPETENCY-BASED EDUCATION NETWORK: $30k → 4%NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STUDENT PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATORS INC: $15k → 14%UNIVERSITY PROFESSIONAL AND CONTINUING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $15k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
MI
NY
MA
CO
WV
MD
KS
TN
DC
OK
AL
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$295k · 9 repeat orgs$392k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +2% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
3

Total granted

$295k
$240k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
0%

Still filing today

100%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $152k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’23’24’25
EducationCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • CE
    COMPETENCY-BASED EDUCATION NETWORK INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $59k · revenue +15%
  • E
    EDUCAUSE
    2× · 2024–2025 · $30k · revenue +2%
  • AA
    AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
    2× · 2024–2025 · $30k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • AC
    ALABAMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM
    one grant, 2023 · $150k
  • TB
    TENNESSEE BOARD OF REGENTS
    one grant, 2023 · $75k
  • AA
    AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY COLLEGES
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
American Association of State Colleges and Universities

Aascu is a washington, d.c. based higher education association that represents the sector of over 500 regional public colleges, universities, and systems whose members share a learning and teaching centered culture, a commitment to…

Education
2
National Association of College and University Attorneys

To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.

3
Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.

Education
4
National Association for College Admission Counseling

Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.

Education
5
American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy

Advance pharmacy education, research, scholarship, practice and service, in partnership with members and stakeholders, to improve health for all.

Health
6
Association of American Universities Inc

Founded in 1900, aau is composed of 71 distinguished institutions in the united states and canada that continually advance society through education, research, and discovery. our u.s. member universities earn the majority of competitively…

Education
7
National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships Inc

Advancing a national community to foster equity in dual and concurrent enrollment through accreditation, advocacy, research, and professional development.

Education
8
National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities

The National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU) serves as the unified voice for the 1,700 private, nonprofit colleges and universities in our nation. (continued on Schedule O)

9
American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education

Aacte elevates education and educator preparation through research, professional practice, advocacy, and collaboration.

10
National Association of College and University Business Officers

The usual public activitites of the national association of college and univsersity business officers (nacubo) are to develop, promote, and improve business and financial principles and practices in the administration of institutions of…

11
American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers

To advance and support a richly diverse, globally interconnected community of higher education professionals as well as the institutions, organizations, and learners they serve through its resources, leadership, and advocacy.

Education
12
Association of Catholic Colleges and University

The association of catholic colleges and universities, founded in 1899, serves as the collective voice of u.s catholic higher education. through programs and services, the association strengthens and promptes the catholic identity and…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Educause and the most unlike its peers is Marshall University Foundation Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

14 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 24 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
6/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ALABAMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM — $150,000 · OtherALABAMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEMTENNESSEE BOARD OF REGENTS — $75,000 · OtherTENNESSEE BOARD OF REGENTSTHE ASSOCIATION FOR INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH — $29,500 · OtherTHE ASSOCIATION FOR INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCHNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES & EMPLOYERS — $29,500 · OtherNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES & EMPLOYERSUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK — $25,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK+7 more — $87,500 · Other+7 moreCOMPETENCY-BASED EDUCATION NETWORK INC — $59,435 · EducationCOMPETENCY-BASED EDUCATION NETWORK INCEDUCAUSE — $29,500 · EducationEDUCAUSEAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES — $29,500 · EducationAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES AND UNIVERSI…AMERICAN COUNCIL ON EDUCATION — $29,500 · EducationAMERICAN COUNCIL ON EDUCATIONMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $29,500 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyNACADA THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY FOR ACADEMIC ADVISING INC — $29,500 · EducationNACADA THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY FOR ACADEMIC ADVI…UNIVERSITY PROFESSIONAL AND CONTINUING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $29,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY PROFESSIONAL AND CONTINUING EDUCAT…AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY COLLEGES — $14,750 · EducationNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STUDENT PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATORS INC — $14,750 · EducationMARSHALL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $12,500 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $12,500 · Education1EDTECH CONSORTIUM INC — $29,500 · Community Improvement
Other$396,500Education$290,935Community Improvement$29,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOMPETENCY-BASED EDUCATION NETWORK INC — $59,435 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetEDUCAUSE — $29,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budget1EDTECH CONSORTIUM INC — $29,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES — $29,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ASSOCIATION FOR INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH — $29,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN COUNCIL ON EDUCATION — $29,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES & EMPLOYERS — $29,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $29,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNACADA THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY FOR ACADEMIC ADVISING INC — $29,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY PROFESSIONAL AND CONTINUING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $29,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY COLLEGES — $14,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STUDENT PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATORS INC — $14,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARSHALL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Lumina Foundation for Education IncIN21.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Gates Foundation · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · Jobs for the Future Inc

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 American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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202122232425
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 35%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology35% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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