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Council of Independent Colleges

The COUNCIL OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES is an association of nonprofit independent colleges and universities, state- based councils of independent colleges, and other higher education affiliates, that works to support college and university leadership, advance institutional excellence, and enhance public understanding of private higher…

$6.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
176
Grants FY2025still arriving
41
States reached
$173k
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 FY2017–2025.

Education$38MPublic Benefit$146kReligion$81kHealth$60kArts & Culture$23kCivil Rights$10k
02FY2025 · 176 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 176 grants below total $5,940,260 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $6,663,845 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $723,585 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k142 grants · $3.6M
  • $50k–250k28 grants · $2.3M
$26,676
Median grant
41
States reached
$89M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTH CAROLINA INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES$172,504
INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES OF TEXAS FOUNDATION$155,500
OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES$134,500
VIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT COLLEGES$131,000
ASSOCIATED COLLEGES OF ILLINOIS$128,000
INDEPENDENT COLLEGES OF INDIANA INC$114,000
IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION$113,500
FLORIDA INDEPENDENT COLLEGE FUND$105,000
WISCONSIN ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES INC$97,500
THE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY$97,102
SOUTH CAROLINA INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES$91,250
ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT KENTUCKY COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES$84,400
MINNESOTA PRIVATE COLLEGE FUND$79,500
COUNCIL OF INDEPENDENT NEBRASKA COLLEGES FOUNDATION$78,000
MICHIGAN COLLEGES ALLIANCE$68,500
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CONCORDIA COLLEGE - MN: $275k → 11%ASSN OF INDEPENDENT COLL & UNIV: $248k → 12%FLORIDA INDEPENDENT COLLEGE FUND: $105k → 19%IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $114k → 10%MISSOURI COLLEGES FUND INC: $113k → 10%WISCONSIN ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES INC: $102k → 10%CONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $275k → 9%SEWANEE THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH: $95k → 13%WESLEYAN COLLEGE: $275k → 23%VIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT COLLEGES: $131k → 22%ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT KENTUCKY COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES: $101k → 14%ASSN OF INDEPENDENT COLL & UNIV: $246k → 12%WOFFORD COLLEGE: $276k → 15%FLORIDA INDEPENDENT COLLEGE FUND: $98k → 19%IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $110k → 10%WISCONSIN ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES INC: $98k → 10%INDEPENDENT COLLEGES OF INDIANA INC: $115k → 16%OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES: $105k → 15%ASSN OF INDEPENDENT COLL & UNIV: $234k → 12%FLORIDA INDEPENDENT COLLEGE FUND: $96k → 19%IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $105k → 10%OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT: $104k → 15%LEWIS UNIVERSITY: $114k → 7%ASSN OF INDEPENDENT COLL & UNIV: $234k → 12%FLORIDA INDEPENDENT COLLEGE FUND: $96k → 19%IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $99k → 10%OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT: $99k → 15%THE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY: $97k → 11%ASSN OF INDEPENDENT COLL & UNIV: $218k → 12%OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT: $99k → 15%INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES OF TEXAS FOUNDATION: $156k → 10%NORTH CAROLINA INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES: $183k → 8%INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES OF TEXAS INC: $153k → 10%NORTH CAROLINA INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES: $174k → 8%INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES OF TEXAS FOUNDATION: $126k → 10%NORTH CAROLINA INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES: $173k → 8%NORTH CAROLINA INDEPENDENT COLL &: $164k → 8%NORTH CAROLINA INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES: $127k → 8%NORTH CAROLINA INDEPENDENT COLL &: $110k → 8%NORTH CAROLINA INDEPENDENT COLL &: $108k → 8%NORTH CAROLINA INDEPENDENT COLL &: $99k → 8%ASSOCIATED COLLEGES OF ILLINOIS: $128k → 14%ASSOCIATED COLLEGES OF ILLINOIS: $118k → 14%OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES: $180k → 15%ASSOCIATED COLLEGES OF ILLINOIS: $117k → 14%OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES: $142k → 15%OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES: $135k → 15%INDEPENDENT COLLEGES OF INDIANA INC: $114k → 16%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

AK
ME
VT
NH
WA
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$36M · 288 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

288 repeat relationships — 138 still active in FY2025, 150 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

288
88

Total granted

$36M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+13%

Still filing today

98%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $809k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • NC
    NORTH CAROLINA INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +31%
  • AO
    ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES OF PENNSYLVANIA
    5× · 2017–2021 · $1.2M · revenue +13%
  • TO
    THE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • IC
    INDEPENDENT COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES OF TEXAS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $153k · revenue +7%
  • SH
    SETON HALL UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $43k · revenue +17%
  • AO
    ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES IN NEW JERSEY
    one grant, 2024 · $43k · revenue -15%

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
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
University of New Haven

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…

Education
3
Loyola University

Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…

Education
4
Xavier University

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…

Education
5
Union College

Union college is a seventh-day adventist community of higher education, inspired by jesus christ, and dedicated to empowering students to learn, serve, and lead.

Education
6
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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8
Greensboro College

Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.

Education
9
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

—
10
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
11
Cornell College

Cornell college offers an innovative and rigorous learning community where faculty and staff collaborate with students to develop the intellectual curiosity, creativity and moral courage necessary for a lifetime of learning and engaged…

Education
12
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Schreiner University and the most unlike its peers is Louisiana Independent College Foundation. 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 backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community FoundationsChristian Missionary Organi…Health Access Advocacy and …Community College Foundatio…
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 80 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%2%10–20yr16%5%20–35yr13%9%35–55yr16%84%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%1%10–20yr16%6%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr16%78%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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%2/414
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,151

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

400 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. 400 of the 414 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
395/400
Grantees still filing
277/400
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NORTH CAROLINA INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES INC — $1,453,875 · EducationNORTH CAROLINA INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES INCASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES OF PENNSYLVANIA — $1,210,300 · EducationTHE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES — $1,197,539 · EducationAssociated Colleges of Illinois Inc — $1,029,079 · EducationIndependent Colleges of Indiana Inc — $921,187 · Education+164 more — $21,404,570 · Education+164 moreICUT Foundation — $1,016,345 · OtherICUT FoundationIOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $899,765 · OtherIOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATI…ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT KENTUCKY COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES — $571,359 · OtherASSOCIATION OF INDEPE…COUNCIL OF INDEPENDENT NEBRASKA COLLEGES FOUNDATION — $508,365 · OtherCOUNCIL OF INDEPENDEN…WOFFORD COLLEGE — $438,972 · OtherWOFFORD COLLEGEINDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES OF NEW JERSEY A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $406,630 · OtherINDEPENDENT COLLEGES …CONCORDIA COLLEGE CORPORATION — $356,030 · OtherCONCORDIA COLLEGE COR…+23 more — $2,057,904 · Other+23 moreNorthwestern University — $65,976 · Recreation & Sports
Education$27,216,550Other$6,255,370Recreation & Sports$65,976

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetNORTH CAROLINA INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES INC — $1,453,875 over 9y, 5.6% of budgetASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES OF PENNSYLVANIA — $1,210,300 over 5y, 10% of budgetTHE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES — $1,197,539 over 9y, 4.1% of budgetAssociated Colleges of Illinois Inc — $1,029,079 over 9y, 14% of budgetICUT Foundation — $1,016,345 over 8y, 50% of budgetIndependent Colleges of Indiana Inc — $921,187 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetIOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $899,765 over 9y, 5.7% of budgetFLORIDA INDEPENDENT COLLEGE FUND INC — $825,000 over 9y, 58% of budgetVA FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT COLLEGES — $744,150 over 9y, 5.7% of budgetWISCONSIN ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES INC — $717,365 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetMINNESOTA PRIVATE COLLEGE FUND — $628,955 over 9y, 5.1% of budgetMISSOURI COLLEGES FUND INC — $624,400 over 9y, 21% of budgetSouth Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities — $594,876 over 9y, 8.3% of budgetMichigan Colleges Alliance — $591,900 over 9y, 4.2% of budgetCOUNCIL OF INDEPENDENT NEBRASKA COLLEGES FOUNDATION — $508,365 over 9y, 11% of budgetWOFFORD COLLEGE — $438,972 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetWESLEYAN COLLEGE — $432,483 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetINDEPENDENT COLLEGES OF WASHINGTON — $407,221 over 9y, 4.5% of budgetINDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES OF NEW JERSEY A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $406,630 over 8y, 14% of budgetINDEPENDENT COLLEGE FUND OF MARYLAND INC — $373,449 over 9y, 36% of budgetCONCORDIA COLLEGE CORPORATION — $356,030 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLewis University — $348,086 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLOUISIANA INDEPENDENT COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $336,200 over 9y, 100% of budgetARKANSAS' INDEPENDENT COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES — $327,100 over 9y, 9.7% of budgetALABAMA ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES — $326,800 over 8y, 9.0% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES INC — $326,200 over 9y, 13% of budgetDILLARD UNIVERSITY — $299,015 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCONNECTICUT COLLEGE — $292,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH — $285,571 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOKLAHOMA INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES INC — $257,250 over 9y, 30% of budgetMEREDITH COLLEGE — $252,135 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAUSTIN COLLEGE — $243,548 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOREGON ALLIANCE OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES — $210,400 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetBUSHNELL UNIVERSITY FKA NORTHWEST CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY — $200,003 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetLIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY — $163,993 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMESSIAH UNIVERSITY — $150,714 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHUNTINGDON COLLEGE — $150,573 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY — $148,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE COLLEGE — $146,781 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDOMINICAN UNIVERSITY — $144,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMALONE UNIVERSITY — $143,700 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetST OLAF COLLEGE — $143,342 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN COLLEGE — $135,702 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAUGUSTANA COLLEGE — $134,982 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY — $128,807 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBARD COLLEGE — $127,898 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRochester Christian University — $127,703 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAquinas College — $126,956 over 5y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds THE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES ↗
  • Who funds Associated Colleges of Illinois Inc ↗
  • Who funds ICUT Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Independent Colleges of Indiana Inc ↗
  • Who funds IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA INDEPENDENT COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds VA FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT COLLEGES ↗
  • Who funds WISCONSIN ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA PRIVATE COLLEGE FUND ↗
  • Who funds MISSOURI COLLEGES FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds South Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities ↗
  • Who funds Michigan Colleges Alliance ↗
  • Who funds COUNCIL OF INDEPENDENT NEBRASKA COLLEGES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WOFFORD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds WESLEYAN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds INDEPENDENT COLLEGES OF WASHINGTON ↗
  • Who funds INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES OF NEW JERSEY A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds INDEPENDENT COLLEGE FUND OF MARYLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds CONCORDIA COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Lewis University ↗
  • Who funds LOUISIANA INDEPENDENT COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ARKANSAS' INDEPENDENT COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ↗
  • Who funds ALABAMA ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES ↗
  • Who funds WEST VIRGINIA INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds DILLARD UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH ↗
  • Who funds OKLAHOMA INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds MEREDITH COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds AUSTIN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds OREGON ALLIANCE OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ↗
  • Who funds BUSHNELL UNIVERSITY FKA NORTHWEST CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds INDEPENDENT COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES OF TEXAS INC ↗
  • Who funds MESSIAH UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds HUNTINGDON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT 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.

National Collegiate A…Folds of Honor Founda…Lettie Pate Whitehead…Ibm International Fou…Tulsa Community Found…The Ohio Foundation o…Michael & Susan Dell …Lilly Endowment IncCharles Koch Foundati…Ernst & Young Foundat…Je and le Mabee Found…Watson-Brown Foundati…
National Collegiate Athletic AssociationIN123.3× affinity71 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Collegiate Athletic Association · Folds of Honor Foundation · Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · The Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges · Michael & Susan Dell Foundation · Lilly Endowment Inc · Charles Koch Foundation · Ernst & Young Foundation · Je and le Mabee Foundation Inc · Watson-Brown Foundation Inc

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 Council of Independent Colleges 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.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Norwich University — 14% of income from government
  • Bushnell University Fka Northwest Christian University — 5% of income from government
  • Linfield University — 4% of income from government
  • Merrimack College — 2% of income from government
  • Georgian Court University — 2% of income from government
  • St Thomas University Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Bay Path University — 1% of income from government
  • Mitchell College — 1% of income from government
  • Notre Dame of Maryland University Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Assumption University — 1% of income from government
  • Gordon College — 0% of income from government
  • Connecticut College — 0% of income from government
  • Wheaton College — 0% of income from government
  • Eckerd College — 0% of income from government
  • Mount Saint Mary's University Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Mcdaniel College Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
56report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 414 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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