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Associated Colleges of the South Inc

The associated colleges of the south seeks to champion and enhance residential liberal arts education through collaborative projects among its sixteen member institutions.

$511k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
4
Itemized grants FY2024
7
Organizations funded FY2023
14%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$42k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$11,068
Largest grant, FY2024
$14,664
Organizations funded a year
5 to 13
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$5.3M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 14% of the organizations Associated Colleges of the South Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving4$42k0%
FY20237$284k14%
FY20225$188k0%
FY20219$209k0%
FY202013$272k8%
FY201910$302k10%
FY201812$453k50%
FY20178$221kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$2.0M

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

KY
VA
AR
TN
NC
SC
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Centre College$379,86180%
University of the South$252,22660%
Furman University$239,46860%
Spelman College$181,58850%
Rollins College$149,51050%
Rhodes College$146,78650%
Southwestern University$107,62340%
Washington and Lee University$94,87740%
Birmingham-Southern College$87,29140%
Davidson College$64,44540%
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All grantees of Associated Colleges of the South Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Centre College$379,86180%
University of the South$252,22660%
Furman University$239,46860%
Spelman College$181,58850%
Rollins College$149,51050%
Rhodes College$146,78650%
Southwestern University$107,62340%
Washington and Lee University$94,87740%
Birmingham-Southern College$87,29140%
Davidson College$64,44540%
Trinity University$58,50030%
Hendrix College$57,51540%
Millsaps College$50,41730%
University of the South-Sewan$28,2651n/a
Washington and Lee University$26,6002n/a
Morehouse College$25,51020%
Centenary College of Louisiana$21,16920%

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCentre College: $379,861 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of the South: $252,226 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFurman University: $239,468 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSpelman College: $181,588 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRollins College: $149,510 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRhodes College: $146,786 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSouthwestern University: $107,623 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWashington and Lee University: $94,877 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBirmingham-Southern College: $87,291 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDavidson College: $64,445 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTrinity University: $58,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHendrix College: $57,515 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMillsaps College: $50,417 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMorehouse College: $25,510 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCentenary College of Louisiana: $21,169 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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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.

Hispanic Scholarship …Council of Independen…Ernst & Young Foundat…Ibm International Fou…Shell USA Company Fou…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…Natl Christian Charit…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…
Hispanic Scholarship FundCA14.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hispanic Scholarship Fund · Council of Independent Colleges · Ernst & Young Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 South Inc

How much does Associated Colleges of the South Inc give?
Associated Colleges of the South Inc reported 4 itemized grants totaling $42,157, out of $511,291 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Associated Colleges of the South Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are Associated Colleges of the South Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Centre College ($380k), University of the South ($252k), Furman University ($239k).
Does Associated Colleges of the South Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Associated Colleges of the South Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hispanic Scholarship Fund, Council of Independent Colleges, Ernst & Young Foundation.
Where is Associated Colleges of the South Inc based?
Associated Colleges of the South Inc is based in GA.

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 17 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $499k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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