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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 FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$15k
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$2.0M
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $42,157, the rows itemized in this filing. The $511,291 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $469,134 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 $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $36k
$11,068
Median grant
4
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTRE COLLEGE$14,664
FURMAN UNIVERSITY$11,068
WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY$10,000
SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$6,425
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 12%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $70k → 6%TRINITY UNIVERSITY: $30k → 16%FURMAN UNIVERSITY: $72k → 10%HENDRIX COLLEGE: $21k → 15%ROLLINS COLLEGE: $61k → 13%BIRMINGHAM SOUTHERN COLLEGE: $40k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH: $94k → 13%RHODES COLLEGE: $52k → 17%SPELMAN COLLEGE: $70k → 13%MILLSAPS COLLEGE: $30k → 23%WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY: $42k → 12%CENTENARY COLLEGE OF LOUISIANA: $15k → 22%CENTRE COLLEGE: $83k → 15%SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $23k → 6%TRINITY UNIVERSITY: $15k → 16%FURMAN UNIVERSITY: $44k → 10%HENDRIX COLLEGE: $21k → 15%ROLLINS COLLEGE: $41k → 13%BIRMINGHAM SOUTHERN COLLEGE: $21k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH: $60k → 13%RHODES COLLEGE: $44k → 17%SPELMAN COLLEGE: $61k → 13%MILLSAPS COLLEGE: $13k → 23%WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY: $28k → 12%CENTRE COLLEGE: $75k → 15%TRINITY UNIVERSITY: $14k → 16%FURMAN UNIVERSITY: $41k → 10%ROLLINS COLLEGE: $23k → 13%BIRMINGHAM SOUTHERN COLLEGE: $19k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH: $44k → 13%RHODES COLLEGE: $18k → 17%SPELMAN COLLEGE: $20k → 13%WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY: $20k → 12%CENTRE COLLEGE: $65k → 15%FURMAN UNIVERSITY: $37k → 10%ROLLINS COLLEGE: $13k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH: $33k → 13%RHODES COLLEGE: $17k → 17%SPELMAN COLLEGE: $19k → 13%WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY: $15k → 12%CENTRE COLLEGE: $55k → 15%FURMAN UNIVERSITY: $34k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH-SEWAN: $28k → 13%RHODES COLLEGE: $15k → 17%MOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $18k → 13%CENTRE COLLEGE: $48k → 15%CENTRE COLLEGE: $27k → 15%CENTRE COLLEGE: $15k → 15%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

KY
VA
AR
TN
NC
SC
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 16 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
1

Total granted

$1.9M
$28k

Still filing today

94%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CC
    CENTRE COLLEGE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $380k · revenue +38%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH
    6× · 2017–2022 · $252k · revenue +44%
  • FU
    FURMAN UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2017–2024 · $239k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH-SEWAN
    one grant, 2023 · $28k
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
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
2
Simpson College

Through innovative learning opportunities, individual student attention, and an unwavering commitment to inclusive educational access, simpson college cultivates a diverse community of learners to lead lives of meaning and purpose.

Education
3
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
4
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
5
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
6
Coker University

Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…

Education
7
Greensboro College

Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.

Education
8
Greenville College

Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.

Education
9
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
10
LaGrange College

Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…

Education
11
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
12
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of the South; the most unlike its peers is Hendrix College. 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

15 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. 15 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CENTRE COLLEGE: $379,861 · EducationCENTRE COLLEGEUNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH: $252,226 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTHFURMAN UNIVERSITY: $239,468 · EducationFURMAN UNIVERSITYSpelman College: $181,588 · EducationSpelman CollegeROLLINS COLLEGE: $149,510 · EducationROLLINS COLLEGERhodes College: $146,786 · EducationRhodes CollegeSOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $107,623 · EducationSOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITYWashington and Lee University: $94,877 · EducationDavidson College: $64,445 · Education+4 more: $191,942 · Education+4 moreBIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN COLLEGE: $87,291 · OtherBIRMINGHA…UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH-SEWAN: $28,265 · OtherUNIVERSIT…WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY: $26,600 · OtherWASHINGTO…CENTENARY COLLEGE OF LOUISIANA: $21,169 · OtherCENTENARY…
Education$1,808,326Other$163,325

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

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
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 CENTRE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH ↗
  • Who funds FURMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Spelman College ↗
  • Who funds ROLLINS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Rhodes College ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Washington and Lee University ↗
  • Who funds BIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Davidson College ↗
  • Who funds Trinity University ↗
  • Who funds HENDRIX COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Millsaps College ↗
  • Who funds MOREHOUSE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds CENTENARY COLLEGE OF LOUISIANA ↗

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Rollins College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 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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