· Public charity
American Association of Community Colleges
Building a nation of learners by advancing america's community colleges.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 81% of AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY COLLEGES’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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 137 grants below total $6,903,644 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $7,052,644 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $149,000 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k101 grants · $1.8M
- $50k–250k22 grants · $2.6M
- $250k+8 grants · $2.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY COLLEGES OF CHICAGO | $330,000 |
| DALLAS COLLEGE | $330,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR THE LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY COLLEGES | $300,000 |
| HOUSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| MIAMI DADE | $300,000 |
| VALENCIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| ALAMO COLLEGES FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| MARICOPA COMMUNITY COLLEGES DISTRICT | $250,000 |
| WESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $240,250 |
| ST LOUIS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $240,250 |
| DELGADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $240,250 |
| COLORADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM FOUNDATION | $211,750 |
| PRINCE GEORGES COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $203,000 |
| IVY TECH FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| WAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $200,000 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% 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.
147 repeat relationships — 73 still active in FY2024, 74 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.0M 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
- MTMINNESOTA TRAINING PARTNERSHIP INC3× · 2020–2022 · $771k · revenue +172% · 59% of their budget
- VCVALENCIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $461k · revenue +139%
- ABASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAPTER TRAINING TF3× · 2020–2022 · $423k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- ATAIKEN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +196%
- GGCCCDone grant, 2017 · $33k
- SJST JOHNS RIVER SCone grant, 2017 · $33k
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.
The foundation provides academic scholarships and financial support to the college.
Making education accessible for students through philanthropic support, aligned with Austin Community College (ACC) strategic priorities.
The foundation was formed to receive gifts and to invest, manage and distribute such gifts for the benefit of the el paso community college and its students. the foundation promotes education and other related activities of the college.
To receive and maintain funds to aid and advance the welfare, development, purposes and programs of hudson valley community college, its students and alumni.
The minneapolis community & technical college foundation helps solve issues of affordability and access to higher education through funds and provides part or all of the funding to the college to develop technical college foundation…
Through the generosity of donors, the foundation invests in student success and supports mid-state technical college's strategic plan.
The MCC Foundation was established to advance the mission of the College by creating community awareness, building and nurturing meaningful relationships and connecting community partners with giving opportunities that fulfill their…
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…
The dctc foundation's mission is to foster student success and elevate the academic experience at dakota county technical college by securing resources through strong partnerships with employers, alumni, and the community.
The mission of san mateo county community colleges foundation is to promote student success and program innovation by providing financial support to help san mateo county community college district students achieve their goals. the…
The foundation's mission is to advance opportunities for quality educational services in nebraska-based institutions.
The mission of the jefferson community college foundation is to work in partnership with the college, the community and alumni to enhance the educational opportunities provided by the college.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community College of Philadelphia Foundation 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 46 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 227 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 MINNESOTA TRAINING PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds VALENCIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAPTER TRAINING TF ↗
- Who funds WESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAN JUAN COLLEGE RETIREE HEALTH TRUST ↗
- Who funds City Colleges of Chicago Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALAMO COLLEGES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds MARICOPA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASSOC BUILDERS & CONTRACTORS OF INDIANA ↗
- Who funds DELGADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: I Car Education Foundation · Jobs for the Future Inc · Achieving the Dream Inc · Mdrc · American Association of Colleges and Universities · World Learning Inc · Foundation for California Community Colleges · Truth Initiative Foundation · League for Innovation in The · The Aspen Institute Inc · New America Foundation · Folds of Honor 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 American Association of Community Colleges 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.
- Raritan Valley Community College — 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.