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What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 40 grants below total $1,384,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,487,085 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $103,085 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
- $10k–50k33 grants · $1.0M
- $50k–250k7 grants · $375k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| NORTH ARKANSAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| TARRANT COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| LONE STAR COLLEGE SYSTEM | $50,000 |
| EAST ARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE RICH MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SOUTH ARKANSAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| FAYETTEVILLE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| RANDOLPH COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| WAKE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| VANCE GRANVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| ALAMANCE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| CENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| JOHNSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
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 (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 78% 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.
30 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $876k 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
- VCVICTORIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC2× · 2024–2025 · $83k · revenue +25%
- CCCUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $50k · revenue +44%
- RRRURAL REGIONAL COLLEGE OF NORTHERN PENNSYLVANIA2× · 2024–2025 · $50k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- ACALAMO COLLEGES FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +25%
- FDFOND DU LAC TRIBAL & COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2023 · $150k
- RCRoxbury Community College Foundation Incone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -8%
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.
The foundation provides academic scholarships and financial support to the college.
The mission of the North Central State Foundation is to assist the College in providing life long learning opportunities by securing financial and community support.
Making education accessible for students through philanthropic support, aligned with Austin Community College (ACC) strategic priorities.
The columbia state community college foundation encourages friends, alumni, economic partners and others to invest their time and resources toward improvement of education at columbia state community college and making higher education…
To promote the cause of higher education and the mission of northeast state community college; to expand educational opportunities; and to acquire, manage, and administer foundation funds to achieve those objectives.
Through the generosity of donors, the foundation invests in student success and supports mid-state technical college's strategic plan.
To facilitate and encourage gifts to fort scott community college to support the college's mission to provide a higher education to students.
Assist the flathead valley community college with fundraising and scholarships.
Investing in student success and our communitys future through scholarships and college development
Greenfield community college foundation supports greenfield community college (hereafter referred to as the college) by raising funds, developing resources and building philanthropic and community relationships to enhance programs and…
To benefit richland community college.
The Foundation is dedicated to securing financial resources for hte growth and development of Morgan Community Collge and promoting a superior environment for learning.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Arkansas College Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Coahoma Community College and Aggie. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
49 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. 49 of the 74 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 ALAMO COLLEGES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EAST LOS ANGELES COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VICTORIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DELGADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH ARKANSAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TARRANT COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEVALLEY COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COAHOMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE AND AGGIE ↗
- Who funds Roxbury Community College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds RURAL REGIONAL COLLEGE OF NORTHERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds ALLEGANY COLLEGE OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH ARKANSAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHASTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SALISH KOOTENAI COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds WESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS TECH UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SAINT PAUL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds EAST ARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: American Association of Community Colleges · Fidelity Foundation · North Carolina Community Colleges Foundation · Achieving the Dream Inc · Truist Foundation Inc · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · The Golden Leaf Inc · I Car Education Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Arvest Foundation · Charles a Cannon Trust No 1
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 Education Design Lab 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.