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AMERICAN COUNCIL ON EDUCATION
Consensus leader on higher education issues & coordinating body for united states higher ed.
$24k
Granted FY2025
2
Grants
2
Communities
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0177% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.
Education$469kScience & Tech$316kOther$236k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
fellow scholarshipace fidelityfidelity investmentsinvestments institutionaltransformation awardstudent travelinstitutional transformation
2020
report
2021
award institutionalinstitutional transformationreport
2022
award institutionalinstitutional transformation
2023
institutional tranformationaward institutional
2025
award institutionalinstitutional transformation
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2025 · 2 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$94M
Total assets
Largest grants
- UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION$10,000
- MARICOPA COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT$10,000
02The need
04
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 (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 11%. 95% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — 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.
71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$729k · 3 repeat orgs$293k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +8% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
3
28
Total granted
$729k
$273k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+8%
+7%
Still filing today
100%
36%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationScience & TechOther
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
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA4× · 2020–2023 · $391k · revenue -9%- RTRESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE4× · 2019–2022 · $316k · revenue +45%
- AOASSOCIATION OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION ADMINISTRATORS3× · 2020–2023 · $22k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- ASARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY - JONESBOROone grant, 2022 · $23k
- ASALABAMA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +550%
CIVIC NATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +241%
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 University
To advance knowledge, foster intellectual curiosity, build community, and empower lives of purpose, service, and leadership.
Education
2
Trinity University
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
Education
3
Washington University
The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)
Education
4
Davidson College
Undergraduate liberal arts education
Education
5
New York University
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes.
Education
6
Dominican University
As a Sinsinawa Dominican sponsored institution, Dominican University prepares students to pursue truth, give compassionate service and participate in the creation of a more just and humane world.
Education
7
National University
National university is a post secondary level educational institution.
Education
8
Washington College
Washington college challenges and inspires emerging citizen leaders to discover lives of purpose and passion.
Education
9
Claremont Graduate University
A private, independent, nonprofit institution of higher learning that is a high research activity university awarding master's and doctoral degrees within its five schools and three independent departments.
Education
10
President and Fellows of Harvard College
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Education
11
Adelphi University
Adelphi university is dedicated to transforming students' lives through small classes, hands-on learning and innovative programs supporting academic and career success.
Education
12
Augsburg University
A private lutheran four-year university located in downtown minneapolis.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Suffolk University and the most unlike its peers is Research Triangle Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Education$469,405Science & Tech$316,349Other$236,437
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 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION ADMINISTRATORS ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CIVIC NATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds BENEDICT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION WRITERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DEPAUL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE FOR EDUCATION FUNDING ↗
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.
National Collegiate Athletic AssociationIN28.1× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: National Collegiate Athletic Association · Folds of Honor Foundation · Corporation for Public Broadcasting · Tulsa Community Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Partnership for Education Advancement · Cornell University · American Chemical Society · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 organisation AMERICAN COUNCIL ON EDUCATION 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ASSOCIATION OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION ADMINISTRATORS.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~2 months of operating runway; revenue held over 6 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 431427422 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on ASSOCIATION OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION ADMINISTRATORS, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue held over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to American Council on Education?
Find your warmest path to American Council on Education through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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