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College Board
Our mission is to serve over 6,000 members and connect more than 7 million students to college success and career opportunity. Through our programs and initiatives, we expand opportunities for students and challenge them to own their future by practicing hard and taking advantage of every opportunity they earn.
- $5.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 71
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 53
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 45%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $2.0M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $16,566
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 62
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 22
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.4B
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 45% of the organizations College Board funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $312k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 71 | $2.0M | 39% |
| FY2023 | 53 | $987k | 45% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $620k | 30% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $548k | 27% |
| FY2020 | 38 | $1.1M | 47% |
| FY2019 | 62 | $1.8M | 94% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $665k | 90% |
| FY2017 | 22 | $1.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mass Insight Education and Research Institute Inc | $545,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc | $360,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Board of Control for Southern Regional Education | $250,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Council of Chief State School Officers | $246,002 | 4 | 0% |
| The Museum of Language Arts Inc | $225,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Jobs for the Future Inc | $205,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Do Something Inc | $200,000 | 1 | 2% |
| The Atlantic Monthly Group LLC | $200,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Hispanic Scholarship Fund | $196,702 | 5 | 0% |
| California County Superintendents | $193,550 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 186 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
College Board supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 139 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Gates Foundation · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Carnegie Corporation of New York · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · Strada Education Foundation Inc · Ecmc Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · The Wallace Foundation · Michael & Susan Dell Foundation · The Joyce Foundation
How this is measured
About College Board
- How much does College Board give?
- College Board reported 71 itemized grants totaling $1,964,250, out of $5,210,121 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 62 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does College Board fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (65%), Arts & Culture (12%), Youth Development (6%).
- Who are College Board's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Mass Insight Education and Research Institute Inc ($545k), Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc ($360k), Board of Control for Southern Regional Education ($250k).
- Does College Board fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as College Board?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gates Foundation, Lumina Foundation for Education Inc, Carnegie Corporation of New York.
- Where is College Board based?
- College Board is based in NY.
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