· Public charity
Complete College America Inc
Complete College America is a national non-profit organization working with states to significantly improve college completion and to close attainment gaps for underrepresented populations.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $206k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Campaign for College Opportunity | $25,000 |
| Southern University at Shreveport | $10,500 |
| Wallace Community College Selma | $10,000 |
| Arkansas State University Mid-South | $10,000 |
| Baton Rouge Community College | $10,000 |
| Denmark Technical College | $10,000 |
| BISHOP STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| University of Arkansas Pulaski Technical College | $10,000 |
| ORANGEBURG-CALHOUN TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| Roxbury Community College | $10,000 |
| Florence-Darlington Technical College | $10,000 |
| LAWSON STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| Chattahoochee Valley Community College | $10,000 |
| Olive Harvey College | $10,000 |
| Shelton State Community College | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 84% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
11 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $221k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- RFResearch Foundation of the City University of New York3× · 2019–2021 · $250k · revenue +19%
UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC2× · 2020–2021 · $30k · revenue +74%- EIEXCELENCIA IN EDUCATION INC2× · 2020–2021 · $30k · revenue +121%
Funded once
- XUXAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANAone grant, 2022 · $215k · revenue -2%
- MVMISSISSIPPI VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $100k
- WCWiley Collegegraduatedone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +83%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Union Institute & University educates highly motivated adults who seek academic programs to engage, enlighten, and empower them to pursue professional goals and a lifetime of learning and service. Offering accredited bachelors, masters,…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…
Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…
Xavier is a jesuit catholic university rooted in the liberal arts tradition. our mission is to educate each student intellectually, morally, and spiritually. we create learning opportunities through rigorous academic and professional…
Private, independent university providing higher education to students. The mission of Daemen University is to prepare creative, ethically-minded leaders for a diverse and interconnected world by integrating the intellectual strengths…
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Xavier University of Louisiana and the most unlike its peers is Wiley College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 45 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Research Foundation of the City University of New York ↗
- Who funds XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds Wiley College ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds EXCELENCIA IN EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds CAMPAIGN FOR COLLEGE OPPORTUNITY ↗
- Who funds Webster University ↗
- Who funds FONTBONNE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Greater Milwaukee Committee for Community Development ↗
- Who funds INLAND EMPIRE ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP FOUND ATION ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF SOUTHERN NEVADA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM WOODS UNIVERSITY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Folds of Honor Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Tulsa Community Foundation · Strada Education Foundation Inc · Educational Credit Management Corporation · Executive Leadership Council · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · Hispanic Scholarship Fund · Women's Foundation of Alabama · National Writing Project Corporation · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · Corporation for Public Broadcasting
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 Complete College America Inc 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.
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.
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