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Career Education Colleges and Universities

The CAREER EDUCATION COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES (cecu) is the premier source of crucial information and public policy recommendations that promote access to career education and the importance of workforce development.

$387k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
3
Itemized grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$375k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$300,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$11M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Career Education Colleges and Universities funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Public 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving3$375k67%
FY20231$50k100%
FY20222$101k50%
FY20211$55k0%
FY20201$55kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$300kEmployment$185kPublic Benefit$151k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cecu Research Foundation$300,000132%
Veterans Education Project Inc$185,0003n/a
Republican Attorneys General Assoc$100,0002n/a
Texas Public Policy Foundation$26,00010%
Republican Governors Association$25,0001n/a

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About Career Education Colleges and Universities

How much does Career Education Colleges and Universities give?
Career Education Colleges and Universities reported 3 itemized grants totaling $375,000, out of $387,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Career Education Colleges and Universities fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (47%), Employment (29%), Public Benefit (24%).
Who are Career Education Colleges and Universities's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Cecu Research Foundation ($300k), Veterans Education Project Inc ($185k), Republican Attorneys General Assoc ($100k).
Does Career Education Colleges and Universities fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Career Education Colleges and Universities based?
Career Education Colleges and Universities is based in VA.

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 5 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 $13k 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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