· Public charity
Ecmc Foundation
ECMC FOUNDATION is a nationally focused foundation whose mission is to improve higher education for career success among underserved populations through evidence-based innovation.
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 $10k4 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k102 grants · $1.6M
- $50k–250k24 grants · $2.4M
- $250k+68 grants · $56M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STATE HIGHER EDUCATION EXECUTIVE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION | $3,449,045 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $3,041,177 |
| GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $2,001,043 |
| EDUCATIONAL CREDIT MANAGEMENT CORPORATION | $2,000,000 |
| SOUTHERN EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $2,000,000 |
| WESTED | $1,940,077 |
| NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR PARTNERSHIPS IN EQUITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC | $1,840,000 |
| JOBS FOR THE FUTURE | $1,575,000 |
| ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY COLLEGE TRUSTEES | $1,500,000 |
| THE INSTITUTE FOR HIGHER EDUCATION POLICY | $1,452,155 |
| ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC AND LAND-GRANT UNIVERSITIES (APLU) | $1,363,504 |
| AMERICAN COUNCIL ON EDUCATION | $1,250,000 |
| GROWING INLAND ACHIEVEMENT INC | $1,035,000 |
| NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STUDENT PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATORS INC | $1,000,000 |
| COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS | $1,000,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $7.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 58% of those 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of Ecmc Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 18% of the giving stays in MN; by stated purpose, 13%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.
307 repeat relationships: 126 still active in FY2024, 181 since wound down; 62 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- EGECMC GROUP INC6× · 2019–2024 · $13M · revenue +39%
CITY YEAR INC5× · 2017–2022 · $12M · revenue +15%- SHSTATE HIGHER EDUCATION EXECUTIVE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION5× · 2019–2024 · $6.9M · revenue +46% · 51% of their budget
Funded once
- NTNew Tech Networkone grant, 2017 · $2.6M
- COCOMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKYone grant, 2023 · $1.6M
THE MANUFACTURING INSTITUTEone grant, 2021 · $1.5M · revenue -24%
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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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…
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.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.
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…
To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
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How this is measured
695 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 695 of the 839 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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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: Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · College Futures Foundation · Gates Foundation · Strada Education Foundation Inc · Educational Credit Management Corporation · The Kresge Foundation · Michael & Susan Dell Foundation · The Michelson 20mm Foundation Inc · Carnegie Corporation of New York · Fr Bigelow Foundation · The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ecmc Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ecmc Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Jewish Vocational Service Inc: 39% of income from government
- Center On Rural Innovation Inc: 37% of income from government
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of America: 21% of income from government
- Third Sector Capital Partners Inc: 16% of income from government
- Just-a-Start Corporation: 16% of income from government
- City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
- Jobs for the Future Inc: 11% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Southern Scholarship Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
- Campus Compact: 1% of income from government
- Uaspire Inc: 1% of income from government
- The Bottom Line Inc: 0% of income from government
- Achieving the Dream Inc: 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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