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American Association of Community Colleges

Building a nation of learners by advancing america's community colleges.

$7.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
137
Grants FY2024still arriving
50
States reached
$330k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$23MEmployment$5.7MMembership Benefit$355kEnvironment$150kCommunity Improvement$20kPublic Benefit$10k
02FY2024 · 137 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 137 grants below total $6,903,644, the rows itemized in this filing. The $7,052,644 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $149,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
$20,000
Median grant
50
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DALLAS COLLEGE$330,000
CITY COLLEGES OF CHICAGO$330,000
FOUNDATION FOR THE LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY COLLEGES$300,000
HOUSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$300,000
ALAMO COLLEGES FOUNDATION$300,000
VALENCIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION$300,000
MIAMI DADE$300,000
MARICOPA COMMUNITY COLLEGES DISTRICT$250,000
WESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$240,250
DELGADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE$240,250
ST LOUIS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COLLEGE OF SOUTHERN IDAHO: $102k → 11%MINNESOTA TRAINING PARTNERSHIP: $320k → 14%WESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $240k → 9%DALLAS COLLEGE: $330k → 14%ALAMO COLLEGES FOUNDATION: $300k → 16%HOUSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $300k → 16%IBM: $268k → 14%MIAMI DADE: $300k → 15%WAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $200k → 21%ST LOUIS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $240k → 11%CROWDER COLLEGE: $102k → 15%MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $106k → 17%COLORADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $212k → 12%IVY TECH FOUNDATION: $200k → 16%JAMES A RHODES STATE COLLEGE: $155k → 13%SPOKANE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $126k → 12%DELGADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $240k → 23%HOWARD COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $106k → 6%PRINCE GEORGES COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $203k → 11%LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP: $566k → 19%COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $189k → 7%KENTUCKY COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $118k → 10%ABC - INDIANAKENTUCKY: $125k → 15%COLLEGE OF SOUTHERN IDAHO: $102k → 11%MINNESOTA TRAINING PARTNERSHIP: $320k → 14%ABC - NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $207k → 10%DALLAS COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT: $199k → 14%IBM: $229k → 14%CROWDER COLLEGE: $102k → 15%IVY TECH COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $175k → 16%SPOKANE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $126k → 12%LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP: $566k → 19%COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $189k → 7%KENTUCKY COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $118k → 10%ABC - INDIANAKENTUCKY: $125k → 15%MINNESOTA TRAINING PARTNERSHIP: $132k → 14%ABC - NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $207k → 10%DALLAS COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT: $177k → 14%IBM: $229k → 14%IVY TECH COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $175k → 16%LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP: $305k → 19%MARICOPA COMMUNITY COLLEGES DISTRICT: $250k → 11%DALLAS COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT: $177k → 14%FOUNDATION FOR THE LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY COLLEGES: $300k → 14%CITY COLLEGES OF CHICAGO: $330k → 14%LINCOLN ELECTRIC: $482k → 17%LINCOLN ELECTRIC: $345k → 17%LINCOLN ELECTRIC: $345k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ME
VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$25M · 147 repeat orgs$4.6M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

147
52

Total granted

$25M
$602k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+138%

Still filing today

14%
10%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyMembership BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MT
    MINNESOTA TRAINING PARTNERSHIP INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $771k · revenue +172% · 59% of their budget
  • VC
    VALENCIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $461k · revenue +139%
  • AB
    ASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAPTER TRAINING TF
    3× · 2020–2022 · $423k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • AT
    AIKEN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +196%
  • SJ
    ST JOHNS RIVER SC
    one grant, 2017 · $33k
  • G
    GCCCD
    one grant, 2017 · $33k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Foundation for Florida Gateway College Inc

The foundation provides academic scholarships and financial support to the college.

Education
2
Austin Community College Foundation

Making education accessible for students through philanthropic support, aligned with Austin Community College (ACC) strategic priorities.

Education
3
El Paso Community College Foundation

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.

Education
4
Minneapolis Community & Technical College Foundation

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…

Education
5
Hudson Valley Community College Foundation

To receive and maintain funds to aid and advance the welfare, development, purposes and programs of hudson valley community college, its students and alumni.

Education
6
Dakota County Technical College Foundation

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.

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7
Columbia State Community College Foundation

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…

—
8
Mid-State Technical College Foundation Inc

Through the generosity of donors, the foundation invests in student success and supports mid-state technical college's strategic plan.

Education
9
Metropolitan Community College Foundation

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…

Education
10
Central Community College Foundation Inc

The foundation's mission is to advance opportunities for quality educational services in nebraska-based institutions.

Education
11
Jefferson Community College Foundation Inc

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.

Education
12
San Mateo County Community Colleges Foundation

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community College of Philadelphia Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
27/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION: $1,438,052 · OtherLOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATIONThe Lincoln Electric Company: $1,171,097 · Other+167 more: $21,221,762 · Other+167 moreMINNESOTA TRAINING PARTNERSHIP INC: $771,145 · EducationMINNESOTA TRAINI…MIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 · EducationMIAMI DADE COLLE…ALAMO COLLEGES FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 · EducationALAMO COLLEGES F…FOUNDATION FOR THE LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY COLLEGES: $300,000 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR T…HOUSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $300,000 · EducationHOUSTON COMMUNIT…MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $235,875 · EducationMILWAUKEE AREA T…PRINCE GEORGE'S COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $203,000 · EducationIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · EducationNORTH IDAHO COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $176,000 · EducationCHATTANOOGA STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $156,438 · EducationRaritan Valley Community College: $154,804 · Education+15 more: $1,205,694 · Education+15 moreWESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $401,250 · PhilanthropyMARICOPA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $250,000 · PhilanthropyCANDID: $211,750 · PhilanthropyNASHVILLE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $138,427 · PhilanthropySAN JUAN COLLEGE RETIREE HEALTH TRUST: $355,086 · Membership Benefit
Other$23,830,911Education$4,302,956Philanthropy$1,001,427Membership Benefit$355,086

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMINNESOTA TRAINING PARTNERSHIP INC: $771,145 over 3y, 59% of budgetVALENCIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $461,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAPTER TRAINING TF: $423,325 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetWESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $401,250 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetSAN JUAN COLLEGE RETIREE HEALTH TRUST: $355,086 over 5y, 7.8% of budgetCity Colleges of Chicago Foundation: $330,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetMIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetALAMO COLLEGES FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY COLLEGES: $300,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetHOUSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetMARICOPA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetASSOC BUILDERS & CONTRACTORS OF INDIANA: $249,194 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetST LOUIS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $240,250 over 1y, 11% of budgetDELGADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $240,250 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetMILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $235,875 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCANDID: $211,750 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPRINCE GEORGE'S COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $203,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNORTH IDAHO COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $176,000 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetCHATTANOOGA STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $156,438 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetRaritan Valley Community College: $154,804 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVictor Valley College Foundation: $143,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetNASHVILLE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $138,427 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetPAUL B SHARAR FOUNDATION - CLINTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $135,000 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetCONSTRUCTION EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $125,069 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetSalt Lake Community College Foundation: $120,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNORTHEAST WISCONSIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $116,250 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF BALTIMORE COUNTY FOUNDATION INC: $106,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetHOWARD COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $105,875 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetPeralta Colleges Foundation: $86,250 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetGEORGIA PIEDMONT TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $86,250 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetHARTNELL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAIKEN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDELAWARE TECHNICAL & COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFIORELLO H LAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCCBC FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSOUTHSIDE VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 MIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ALAMO COLLEGES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY COLLEGES ↗
  • Who funds HOUSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MARICOPA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ASSOC BUILDERS & CONTRACTORS OF INDIANA ↗
  • Who funds ST LOUIS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DELGADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

I Car Education Found…Jobs for the Future I…Achieving the Dream I…MdrcAmerican Association …World Learning IncFoundation for Califo…Truth Initiative Foun…League for Innovation…The Aspen Institute I…New America FoundationFolds of Honor Founda…
I Car Education FoundationIL70.6× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization American Association of Community Colleges funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Association of Community Colleges. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Raritan Valley Community College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 227 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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