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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.

$5.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
71
Grants FY2024still arriving
22
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$5.9MArts & Culture$1.1MYouth Development$523kInternational$443kEmployment$284kPublic Benefit$242kPhilanthropy$165kPublic Safety & Disaster$149kOther$0
02FY2024 · 71 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 71 grants below total $1,964,250 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,210,121 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,245,871 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $117k
  • $10k–50k42 grants · $764k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $833k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$16,566
Median grant
22
States reached
$2.4B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Board of Control for Southern Regional Education$250,000
Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc$125,000
Braven Incorporated$102,562
The Trinity Forum Inc$100,000
EDUCATION LEADERS OF COLOR INC$100,000
National College Attainment Network$75,000
California County Superintendents$62,050
American Association of School Administrators$59,429
THE YGS GROUP$59,200
SXSW LLC$50,000
JAMES B HUNT JR INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND POLICY FOUNDATION$50,000
American School Counselor Association$50,000
Jobs for the Future$40,000
MILITARY CHILD EDUCATION COALITION$30,000
Texas Association of School Administrators$30,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%National Parents Union Inc: $10k → 8%VICTIMS FIRST INC: $6k → 14%NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP PROVIDERS ASSOCIATION: $11k → 12%National Scholarship Providers Association: $11k → 12%NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP PROVIDERS ASSOCIATION: $10k → 12%INSTITUTE FOR AMERICA: $13k → 17%Council of African American Parents: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

VT
WA
ID
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
GA
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.8M · 68 repeat orgs$3.2M to everyone else

68 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

68
90

Total granted

$5.8M
$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+26%

Still filing today

93%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $845k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • JF
    JOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $205k · revenue +69%
  • HS
    HISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    5× · 2017–2024 · $197k · revenue +14%
  • NC
    NATIONAL COLLEGE ATTAINMENT NETWORK
    5× · 2019–2024 · $172k · revenue +133%

Funded once

  • DS
    DO SOMETHING INC
    one grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue -63%
  • TC
    THE CHARACTER LAB INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $175k · revenue +521%
  • NC
    NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $148k · revenue +182%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.

Education
2
National Association of College and University Attorneys

To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.

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3
National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships Inc

Advancing a national community to foster equity in dual and concurrent enrollment through accreditation, advocacy, research, and professional development.

Education
4
American Council On Education

Ace leads higher education with a united vision for the future, galvanizing our members to make change. the council collaborates across the sector to design solutions for today's challenges, serves the needs of a diverse student…

Education
5
National Education Association of the United States

Our mission is to advocate for education professionals and to unite our members and the nation to fulfill the promise of public education to prepare every student to succeed in a diverse and interdependent world.

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6
National Association of Independent Schools Inc

As the largest association of independent schools, nais co-creates the future of education by uniting and empowering our community. we do this through thought leadership, research, creation and curation of resources, and direct…

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7
American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education

Aacte elevates education and educator preparation through research, professional practice, advocacy, and collaboration.

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8
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.

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9
American College Personnel Association

Acpa transforms higher education by creating and sharing influential scholarship, shaping critically reflective practice, and advocating for equitable and inclusive learning environments.

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10
Council for Higher Education Accreditation

The council is dedicated to serving students and their families, colleges and universities, sponsoring bodies, governments and employers by promoting academic quality through formal recognition of higher education accrediting bodies and…

Education
11
University Professional and Continuing Education Association

University professional and continuing education association (upcea) advances leadership in professional, continuing and online education. the association is dedicated to meeting the needs of professional members and the institutions they…

Education
12
American Society of Civil Engineers Inc

To provide essential value to our members, their careers, our partners, and the public, asce will: facilitate the advancement of technology; encourage and provide the tools for lifelong learning; promote professionalism and the profession;…

Science & Tech

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Alliance for Public Charter Schools and the most unlike its peers is Popular Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyChristian Missionary Organi…Community FoundationsCommunity FoundationsImmigrant Worker SupportIndependent K-12 SchoolsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Youth Development ServicesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Jewish Community Organizati…Domestic Violence ServicesLgbtq+ Community SupportPolicy Research and AdvocacyMilitary Veterans SupportSchool Parent OrganizationsWomen & Girls Leadership De…Local History Museums
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr16%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%25%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.5%1/191
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,374

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

152 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 152 of the 191 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
150/152
Grantees still filing
96/152
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC — $360,000 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION I…BOARD OF CONTROL FOR SOUTHERN REGIONAL EDUCATION — $250,000 · EducationBOARD OF CONTROL FOR SOUTHERN REGIONAL E…COUNCIL OF CHIEF STATE SCHOOL OFFICERS — $246,002 · EducationCOUNCIL OF CHIEF STATE SCHOOL OFFICERSHISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $196,702 · EducationHISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUNDCALIFORNIA COUNTY SUPERINTENDENTS — $193,550 · EducationCALIFORNIA COUNTY SUPERINTENDENTSNATIONAL COLLEGE ATTAINMENT NETWORK — $171,700 · EducationAMERICAN SCHOOL COUNSELOR ASSOCIATION — $171,485 · EducationMILITARY CHILD EDUCATION COALITION — $160,000 · EducationNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING — $113,800 · Education+51 more — $1,373,968 · Education+51 moreThe Atlantic Monthly Group LLC — $200,000 · OtherThe Atlantic Monthly Group LLCTHE CHARACTER LAB INC — $175,000 · OtherNATIONAL RURAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $162,500 · OtherTEXAS ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL ADMINSTRATORS — $135,000 · OtherCOUNCIL OF THE GREAT CITY SCHOOLS — $115,000 · OtherJOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC — $205,000 · OtherJOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC+94 more — $2,419,315 · Other+94 moreTHE MUSEUM OF LANGUAGE ARTS INC — $225,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM…NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER — $147,550 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL C…SMARTHISTORY INC — $125,000 · Arts & CultureSMARTHISTO…EDUCATION LEADERS OF COLOR INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureEDUCATION …JOURNEY THROUGH HALLOWED GROUND PARTNERSHIP — $100,000 · Arts & CultureJOURNEY TH…FAST GROWTH SCHOOL COALITION — $45,000 · Arts & CultureMARCH ON WASHINGTON FILM FESTIVAL — $40,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN COUNCIL ON THE TEACHING OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES — $30,000 · Arts & CultureKVIE INC — $30,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $20,000 · Arts & CultureMASS INSIGHT EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $545,000 · Health+2 more — $16,527 · HealthDO SOMETHING INC — $200,000 · Youth DevelopmentBRAVEN INC — $146,558 · Youth DevelopmentAMERICA'S PROMISE THE ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH — $48,600 · Youth DevelopmentOUR COMMUNITY SALUTES USA INC — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentSave The Children Federation Inc — $165,051 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC — $89,337 · InternationalGlobal Citizenship Alliance — $50,000 · InternationalASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC — $35,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $16,132 · International+3 more — $17,636 · InternationalTRINITY FORUM INC — $100,000 · PhilanthropyPOPULAR FOUNDATION INC — $88,926 · PhilanthropyOMPRAKASH INC — $50,000 · PhilanthropyNORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · PhilanthropyPHI DELTA KAPPA INTERNATIONAL INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyBLACK ECONOMIC ALLIANCE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Philanthropy
Education$3,237,207Other$3,411,815Arts & Culture$862,550Health$561,527Youth Development$410,158International$373,156Philanthropy$268,926

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMASS INSIGHT EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $545,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC — $360,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetBOARD OF CONTROL FOR SOUTHERN REGIONAL EDUCATION — $250,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCOUNCIL OF CHIEF STATE SCHOOL OFFICERS — $246,002 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF LANGUAGE ARTS INC — $225,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetJOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC — $205,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDO SOMETHING INC — $200,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetHISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $196,702 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA COUNTY SUPERINTENDENTS — $193,550 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetTHE CHARACTER LAB INC — $175,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetNATIONAL COLLEGE ATTAINMENT NETWORK — $171,700 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN SCHOOL COUNSELOR ASSOCIATION — $171,485 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $165,051 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMILITARY CHILD EDUCATION COALITION — $160,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER — $147,550 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBRAVEN INC — $146,558 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTEXAS ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL ADMINSTRATORS — $135,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSMARTHISTORY INC — $125,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetCOUNCIL OF THE GREAT CITY SCHOOLS — $115,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING — $113,800 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCOLORADO ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL EXECUTIVES — $102,083 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetAFRICAN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetEDUCATION LEADERS OF COLOR INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetJAMES B HUNT JR INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP & POLICY FDN — $100,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Association of School Administrators Inc — $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTRINITY FORUM INC — $100,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetEDUCATION COMMISSION OF THE STATES — $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJOURNEY THROUGH HALLOWED GROUND PARTNERSHIP — $100,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetSpelman College — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR CITIZENS AND SCHOLARS — $100,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFLORIDA ASSOCIATION OF DISTRICT SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS INC — $95,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC — $89,337 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS — $75,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSTATE GOVERNMENT LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetJACKIE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC — $69,447 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS INSTITUTE INC — $68,900 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetILLINOIS PRINCIPALS ASSOCIATION — $60,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNALEO EDUCATIONAL FUND — $56,667 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE BOARDS OF EDUCATION — $55,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetWestern Interstate Commission for Higher Education — $50,178 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMON APPLICATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTENNESSEE ORGANIZATION OF SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS — $50,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetOMPRAKASH INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetGlobal Citizenship Alliance — $50,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetITHAKA HARBORS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA BETTER CHANCE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetEDUCATION WRITERS ASSOCIATION — $50,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICA'S PROMISE THE ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH — $48,600 over 2y, 0.4% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Gates FoundationLumina Foundation for…Carnegie Corporation …Walton Family Foundat…Ascendium Education S…Strada Education Foun…Ecmc FoundationThe William & Flora H…WK Kellogg FoundationThe Wallace FoundationMichael & Susan Dell …The Joyce Foundation
Gates FoundationWA62× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization College Board funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Verse Video Education — 35% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Jobs for the Future Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Mass Insight Education and Research Institute Inc — 1% of income from government
  • The Bottom Line Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Coalition of Oregon School Administrators — 0% of income from government
  • Steppingstone Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 191 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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