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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
States reached
$2.0M
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 2021.

Education$8.0MArts & Culture$3.5MSocial Science$1.9MPublic Benefit$1.7MCommunity Improvement$995kEmployment$44kCrime & Legal$13kAnimals$3k
02FY2021 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$66M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OBJECTIVE STANDARD INSTITUTE$2,000,000
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 (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%WORK WIZARD GRANT: $340k → 10%COLEMAN UNIVERSITY: $3.0M → 11%CLEMSON INSTITUTE: $1.8M → 16%CATO INSTITUTE: $550k → 14%DUKE PPE PROGRAM: $965k → 11%EUDAMONIA INSTITUTE: $300k → 15%FRIENDS OF TRACY AVIARY: $3k → 8%COLORADO CIVIL JUSTICE LEAGUE: $30k → 12%CECU: $44k → 14%GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $125k → 6%INTENTIONAL LIFE LAB GRANT: $500k → 11%COLEMAN UNIVERSITY: $1.7M → 11%CLEMSON UNIVERSITY: $1.1M → 16%CATO INSTITUTE: $550k → 14%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $317k → 11%EUDAMONIA INSTITUTE: $200k → 15%COLORADO CIVIL JUSTICE LEAGUE: $5k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND: $400k → 11%CATO INSTITUTE: $550k → 14%COLORADO CIVIL JUSTICE LEAGUE: $5k → 12%COLORADO CIVIL JUSTICE LEAGUE: $3k → 12%LEADERSHIP PROGRAM OF THE ROCKIES: $75k → 12%LEADERSHIP PROGRAM OF THE ROCKIES: $75k → 12%LEADERSHIP PROGRAM OF THE ROCKIES: $5k → 12%INDEPENDENCE INSTITUTE: $25k → 12%INDEPENDENCE INSTITUTE: $10k → 12%INDEPENDENCE INSTITUTE: $5k → 12%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

IL
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
NC
SC
DC
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 9 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2021, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
5

Total granted

$14M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+34%

Still filing today

67%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
EducationPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureAnimalsOther
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

  • OS
    OBJECTIVE STANDARD INSTITUTE
    2× · 2020–2021 · $3.5M · revenue +228% · 79% of their budget
  • CI
    CATO INSTITUTE
    3× · 2018–2020 · $1.6M · revenue +71%
  • WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2018–2019 · $500k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • YW
    Young Womens Christian Association of the Central Carolinas Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $965k · revenue -42%
  • WW
    WORD WIZARDS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $340k
  • DUKE UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $317k · revenue +41%
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
Washington and Lee University

Mission statement of washington and lee university: washington and lee university provides a liberal arts education that develops students' capacity to think freely, critically, and humanely and to conduct themselves with honor, integrity,…

Education
2
Wilson College

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

Education
3
American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal
4
Barton College

Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…

Education
5
Claremont Lincoln University

Delivers affordable, accessible, and relevant higher education programs.

Education
6
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
7
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
8
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
9
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
10
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
11
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

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12
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Career Education Colleges and Universities; the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. 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

13 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. 13 of the 14 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COLEMAN UNIVERSITY: $4,681,000 · OtherCOLEMAN UNIVERSITYCLEMSON UNIVERSITY: $2,921,467 · OtherCLEMSON UNIVERSITYYoung Womens Christian Association of the Central Carolinas Inc: $964,500 · OtherYoung Womens Christian Association of the Central Carolinas IncUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK: $900,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARKOBJECTIVE STANDARD INSTITUTE: $3,500,000 · Arts & CultureOBJECTIVE STANDARD INSTI…CATO INSTITUTE: $1,650,000 · Public BenefitCATO INSTITU…Leadership Program of the Rockies: $155,000 · Public BenefitLeadership P…+1 more: $40,000 · Public BenefitWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $500,000 · EducationWAKE FORE…WORD WIZARDS INC: $340,342 · EducationWORD WIZA…DUKE UNIVERSITY: $316,874 · EducationDUKE UNIV…GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 · EducationGEORGE MA…Colorado Civil Justice League: $42,500 · Community ImprovementFRIENDS OF TRACY AVIARY: $3,000 · Animals
Other$9,466,967Arts & Culture$3,500,000Public Benefit$1,845,000Education$1,282,216Community Improvement$42,500Animals$3,000

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

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
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.

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

Open a dossier: 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Center for Excellence in Higher Education Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Center for Excellence in Higher Education Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 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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