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Center for Excellence in Higher Education Inc

The principal function of the organization is the presentation of formal instruction by its regularly maintained faculty and curriculum to its regularly enrolled body of pupils or students in order for students to obtain a degree and obtain employment.

$2.0M
Granted FY2021
1
Grants FY2021
1
Organizations funded FY2021
0%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$2,000,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$2,000,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 10
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
1
Total assets, FY2021
$66M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 0% of the organizations Center for Excellence in Higher Education Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21
EducationArts & CulturePublic BenefitAnimalsOther
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
FY20211$2.0M0%
FY20209$5.8M33%
FY20194$1.2M25%
FY201810$4.2M60%
FY20174$3.0Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Education$8.0MArts & Culture$3.5MSocial Science$1.9MPublic Benefit$1.7MCommunity Improvement$995kEmployment$44kCrime & Legal$13kAnimals$3k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
NC
SC
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Coleman University$4,681,000231%
Objective Standard Institute$3,500,000279%
Clemson University$2,921,4672n/a
Cato Institute$1,650,00032%
Young Womens Christian Association of the Central Carolinas Inc$964,500116%
University of Maryland College Park$900,0002n/a
Wake Forest University$500,00020%
Word Wizards Inc$340,3421n/a
Duke University$316,87410%
Leadership Program of the Rockies$155,00037%
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All grantees of Center for Excellence in Higher Education Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Coleman University$4,681,000231%
Objective Standard Institute$3,500,000279%
Clemson University$2,921,4672n/a
Cato Institute$1,650,00032%
Young Womens Christian Association of the Central Carolinas Inc$964,500116%
University of Maryland College Park$900,0002n/a
Wake Forest University$500,00020%
Word Wizards Inc$340,3421n/a
Duke University$316,87410%
Leadership Program of the Rockies$155,00037%
George Mason University Foundation Inc$125,00010%
Colorado Civil Justice League$42,500415%
Independence Institute$40,00031%
Friends of Tracy Aviary$3,00010%

Where it is load-bearing

Center for Excellence in Higher Education Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetColeman University: $4,681,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetObjective Standard Institute: $3,500,000 over 2y, 79% of budgetCato Institute: $1,650,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetYoung Womens Christian Association of the Central Carolinas Inc: $964,500 over 1y, 16% of budgetWake Forest University: $500,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDuke University: $316,874 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Program of the Rockies: $155,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetGeorge Mason University Foundation Inc: $125,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetColorado Civil Justice League: $42,500 over 4y, 15% of budgetIndependence Institute: $40,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetFriends of Tracy Aviary: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 11.

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Center for Excellence in Higher Education Inc

How much does Center for Excellence in Higher Education Inc give?
Center for Excellence in Higher Education Inc reported 1 grants totaling $2,000,000 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does Center for Excellence in Higher Education Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Education (50%), Arts & Culture (22%), Social Science (12%).
Who are Center for Excellence in Higher Education Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Coleman University ($4.7M), Objective Standard Institute ($3.5M), Clemson University ($2.9M).
Does Center for Excellence in Higher Education Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Center for Excellence in Higher Education Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Center for Excellence in Higher Education Inc based?
Center for Excellence in Higher Education Inc is based in UT.

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 14 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $683 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 FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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