· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Chattahoochee Valley Community College | $10,000 |
| Olive Harvey College | $10,000 |
| BISHOP STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| University of Arkansas Pulaski Technical College | $10,000 |
| Shelton State Community College | $10,000 |
| Trenholm State Community College | $10,000 |
| Southeast Arkansas College | $10,000 |
| Wallace Community College Selma | $10,000 |
| Arkansas State University Mid-South | $10,000 |
| ORANGEBURG-CALHOUN TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| Baton Rouge Community College | $10,000 |
| Roxbury Community College | $10,000 |
| Florence-Darlington Technical College | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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 +97%
Funded once
- XUXAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANAone grant, 2022 · $215k · revenue -2%
- WCWiley Collegegraduatedone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +83%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARKone grant, 2022 · $100k
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.
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.
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How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 45 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 FONTBONNE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Webster 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Complete College America Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Complete College America Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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