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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 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 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 71 grants below total $1,964,250, the rows itemized in this filing. The $5,210,121 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $3,245,871 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
JAMES B HUNT JR INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND POLICY FOUNDATION$50,000
American School Counselor Association$50,000
SXSW LLC$50,000
Jobs for the Future$40,000
Council for Opportunity in Education$30,000
MILITARY CHILD EDUCATION COALITION$30,000
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:

Its 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 its 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
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

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
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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • JF
    JOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $205k · revenue +69%
  • HS
    HISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    5× · 2017–2024 · $197k · revenue +169%
  • 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%
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
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 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
3
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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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
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
9
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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10
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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11
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Alliance for Public Charter Schools; 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.
04the grantee network

152 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
150/152
Grantees still filing
97/152
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…JOURNEY THROUGH HALLOWED GROUND PARTNERSHIP: $100,000 · Arts & CultureJOURNEY TH…EDUCATION LEADERS OF COLOR INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureEDUCATION …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 · PhilanthropyBLACK ECONOMIC ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyPHI DELTA KAPPA INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyNORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Education$3,237,207Other$3,411,815Arts & Culture$862,550Health$561,527Youth Development$410,158International$373,156Philanthropy$268,926

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetINSTITUTE FOR CITIZENS AND SCHOLARS: $100,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetAFRICAN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTRINITY FORUM INC: $100,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetSpelman College: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Association of School Administrators Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJOURNEY THROUGH HALLOWED GROUND PARTNERSHIP: $100,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetJAMES B HUNT JR INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP & POLICY FDN: $100,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetEDUCATION COMMISSION OF THE STATES: $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetEDUCATION LEADERS OF COLOR INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.7% 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 budgetITHAKA HARBORS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOMPRAKASH INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTENNESSEE ORGANIZATION OF SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS: $50,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetA BETTER CHANCE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetEDUCATION WRITERS ASSOCIATION: $50,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetGlobal Citizenship Alliance: $50,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetAMERICA'S PROMISE THE ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH: $48,600 over 2y, 0.4% 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.

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

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 College Board funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from College Board. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%5%19%42%75%funder's 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
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 191 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.

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The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home