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Educational Credit Management Corporation
EDUCATIONAL CREDIT MANAGEMENT CORPORATION (ecmc) provides financial counseling and education to empower students to make better choices about their futures.
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 $10k19 grants · $136k
- $10k–50k114 grants · $2.9M
- $50k–250k120 grants · $13M
- $250k+40 grants · $161M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ECMC GROUP INC | $128,892,000 |
| PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION ADVANCEMENT | $4,324,959 |
| NASFAA | $3,323,686 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS INC | $2,582,465 |
| NATIONAL COLLEGE ATTAINMENT NETWORK | $1,748,000 |
| THURGOOD MARSHALL COLLEGE FUND | $1,487,791 |
| TEXAS GUARANTEED STUDENT LOAN CORPORATION | $1,055,450 |
| THE GET SCHOOLED FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| TENNESSEE STUDENT ASSISTANCE CORPORATION | $1,000,000 |
| UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE | $999,741 |
| COLLEGE POSSIBLE | $931,118 |
| ILLINOIS STUDENT ASSISTANCE COMMISSION | $914,258 |
| EDQUITY INC | $787,213 |
| KENTUCKY HIGHER EDUCATION ASSISTANCE AUTHORITY | $777,104 |
| ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS | $710,480 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $368k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those 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.
73 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 43 since wound down; 254 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44M 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
- EGECMC GROUP INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.8B · revenue +23% · 75% of their budget
- EFECMC FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2021 · $17M · revenue +76% · 36% of their budget
- FTFAYETTEVILLE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $225k · revenue +281%
Funded once
- NMNew Mexico State Univ Fdn Incone grant, 2021 · $42k · revenue -49%
- CBCONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $36k · revenue +69%
- CHCONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS INSTITUTE INCone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +3%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
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 32 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
236 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. 236 of the 355 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
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
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 ECMC GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds ECMC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION ADVANCEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STUDENT FINANCIAL AID ADMINISTRATORS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COLLEGE ATTAINMENT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Thurgood Marshall College Fund ↗
- Who funds TEXAS GUARANTEED STUDENT LOAN CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE GET SCHOOLED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG INVINCIBLES ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN COLLEGE ACCESS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds Granite Edvance Corporation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SUMMER LEARNING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUNY IMPACT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UASPIRE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COLLEGE ADVISING CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA'S STATE SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLLEGIATE EDU-NATION ↗
- Who funds College Success Foundation ↗
- Who funds LANE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNIDOSUS ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR OPPORTUNITY IN EDUCATION ↗
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: National College Attainment Network · Strada Education Foundation Inc · Ecmc Foundation · Tom Joyner Foundation Inc · National Collegiate Athletic Association · United Negro College Fund Inc · Gates Foundation · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Thurgood Marshall College Fund · Truth Initiative Foundation · Folds of Honor Foundation · Foundation for California Community Colleges
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 Educational Credit Management Corporation 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.
- United Way of Delaware — 58% of income from government
- Tulsa Community Foundation — 11% of income from government
- The Morgan State University Foundation Inc — 7% of income from government
- Washington Adventist University — 4% of income from government
- Connecticut Rise Network Inc — 2% of income from government
- Uaspire Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Bottom Line Inc — 0% of income from government
- Tsic Inc Dba/Take Stock in Children — 0% of income from government
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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