How much does Associated Colleges of the Midwest give?

Associated Colleges of the Midwest reported 9 itemized grants totaling $645,558, out of $663,308 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 14 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.

What does Associated Colleges of the Midwest fund?

By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%).

Who are Associated Colleges of the Midwest's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: St Olaf College ($612k), Macalester College ($361k), The Colorado College ($333k).

Does Associated Colleges of the Midwest fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Associated Colleges of the Midwest?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include AbbVie Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, National Philanthropic Trust.

Where is Associated Colleges of the Midwest based?

Associated Colleges of the Midwest is based in IL.

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Associated Colleges of the Midwest

The ASSOCIATED COLLEGES OF THE MIDWEST (acm), a consortium of residential liberal arts colleges, enriches residential liberal arts education and strengthens members through collaboration. Through our strategic initiatives and programs, we encourage excellence in teaching and learning, promote equity and inclusion and celebrate individual…

$663k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 9
Itemized grants FY2025: 8
Organizations funded FY2024: 0%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $646k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $61,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $135,417
Organizations funded a year: 6 to 14; FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 4
Total assets, FY2025: $18M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Associated Colleges of the Midwest funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	9	$646k	11%
FY2024	8	$842k	0%
FY2023	10	$427k	0%
FY2022	6	$407k	17%
FY2021	14	$955k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$3.3M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
St Olaf College	$611,655	5	0%
Macalester College	$360,570	4	0%
The Colorado College	$333,044	3	0%
Lawrence University of Wisconsin	$299,068	4	0%
Ripon College	$265,190	4	0%
Beloit College	$261,233	4	0%
Coe College	$236,498	3	n/a
Lake Forest College	$199,049	3	0%
The Trustees of Grinnell College	$188,168	3	0%
Carleton College	$160,541	4	0%

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All grantees of Associated Colleges of the Midwest by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
St Olaf College	$611,655	5	0%
Macalester College	$360,570	4	0%
The Colorado College	$333,044	3	0%
Lawrence University of Wisconsin	$299,068	4	0%
Ripon College	$265,190	4	0%
Beloit College	$261,233	4	0%
Coe College	$236,498	3	n/a
Lake Forest College	$199,049	3	0%
The Trustees of Grinnell College	$188,168	3	0%
Carleton College	$160,541	4	0%
Cornell College	$144,315	1	0%
Knox College	$85,511	1	0%
The Big Ten Conference Inc	$63,406	3	0%
Luther College	$28,677	2	0%
Monmouth College	$28,580	2	0%
Coe College	$11,000	1	0%

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Associated Colleges of the Midwest supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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.

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Open a dossier: AbbVie Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Associated Colleges of the Midwest

How much does Associated Colleges of the Midwest give?: Associated Colleges of the Midwest reported 9 itemized grants totaling $645,558, out of $663,308 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 14 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Associated Colleges of the Midwest fund?: By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are Associated Colleges of the Midwest's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: St Olaf College ($612k), Macalester College ($361k), The Colorado College ($333k).
Does Associated Colleges of the Midwest fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Associated Colleges of the Midwest?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include AbbVie Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is Associated Colleges of the Midwest based?: Associated Colleges of the Midwest is based in IL.