How much did EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE grant in FY2024?

Education$2.9MPhilanthropy$747kCivil Rights$613kHuman Services$460kArts & Culture$372kInternational$213kCommunity Improvement$95kEmployment$81kEnvironment$81kOther$1.9M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

yppmathanchor youthyouth youngyoung adultsadults experiencingexperiencing abuse

2020

apiacarry outcivil rightsvolunteersskillsliveseconomic

2021

personsbexarhousing homelessgivehomelessnessapiaadequate

2022

victimsthomas edisonlearnisastudent achievementinvestproperty

2023

hitopsaspectsaffirminginclusivesexual healthsex educationartists

2024

achieving

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k5 grants · $38k
$10k–50k8 grants · $145k
$50k–250k3 grants · $166k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.7B

Total assets

Largest grants

MONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP BOARD OF EDUCATION$66,490
COUNCIL OF CHIEF STATE SCHOOL OFFICERS (CCSSO)$50,000
EDUCATION LAW CENTER INC$50,000
LAWRENCE TOWNSHIP EDUCATION FOUNDATION$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE$25,000
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR HISPANICS IN HIGHER EDUCATION$25,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NEW JERSEY$20,000
SHILOH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP$20,000
TOUGALOO COLLEGE$10,000
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS$10,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MERCER COUNTY$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA$7,500
TRENTON AREA SOUP KITCHEN (TASK)$7,500
THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$7,500
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA$7,500

02The need

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:

Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $460k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$4.8M · 52 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

52 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.8M

$2.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%

+27%

Still filing today

77%

72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureHealthEmploymentOther

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

Children's Defense Fund
6× · 2018–2023 · $608k · revenue +39%
LP
LIFE PIECES TO MASTERPIECES INC
4× · 2020–2023 · $165k · revenue +573%
Hispanics Inspiring Students' Performance and Achievement
5× · 2018–2024 · $157k · revenue +142%

Funded once

IF
INSTITUTE FOR STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT FOUNDATION
one grant, 2022 · $1.4M · revenue -86% · 43% of their budget
AL
African Leadership Foundation
one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -56%
AO
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES (AAC&U)graduated
one grant, 2021 · $80k · revenue +27%

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.

New Jersey Citizen Action Education

Promotes empowerment of low and middle income people through research, education, and training around public policy issues and direct counseling services.

Public Benefit

National Association for College

Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.

Education

Independent Colleges and Universities of

The mission of the independent colleges and universities of new jersey (icunj), a new jersey non-profit corporation is to advance the interests of new jersey's independent, non-profit, public mission institutions of higher education by…

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The New Jersey Institute for Social

A state-wide research and advocacy organization dedicated to the advancement of urban areas and residents.

Human Services

New Jersey Citizen Action

To protect and expand the rights of citizens of the state of new jersey, and to encourage active citizen involvement in campaigns promoting economic, social and racial equity.

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New Jersey Society of Certified Public

Promote & maintain high professional & ethical standards of the cpa in the state of nj; develop & improve accountancy education; & protect the interests of the public & society.

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Leadership New Jersey Inc

To serve as forum for the exchange of ideas for the development of public and private partnerships and projects that address economic, social, and community problems in NJ; To analyze state issues, communicate its positions to the public…

Community Improvement

New Meridian Corporation

New Meridian's mission is to advance the quality of public education for all students by designing assessments that focus on the skills that matter: critical thinking, deep understanding, and the ability to communicate ideas effectively.

Education

Council of New Jersey Grantmakers Inc

Cnjg supports and elevates new jersey's philanthropic community through shared learning, collaborative and trusting relationships, networking building, and leadership.

Philanthropy

New Jersey Policy Perspective Inc

New jersey policy perspective (njpp) is a nonpartisan think tank that drives policy change to advance economic, social, and racial justice through evidence-based, independent research, analysis, and strategic communications.

Arts & Culture

Deans for Impact

Deans for Impact supports educator-preparation programs to bring the science of learning into teaching practice; partners with policymakers to ensure pathways into teaching are accessible, practice-based, and instructionally-focused; and…

Education

The Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center Inc

Deliver world-class resources and mentoring to enable every entrepreneur across the globe to realize their maximum potential.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Court Appointed Special Advocates and the most unlike its peers is Washington University. 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.

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 40 years old; the field is 15. 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 24% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%4/116

the rest of the field

10%

5,420/52,176

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.

05the grantee network

92 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

85/92

Grantees still filing

60/92

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$2,915,772Other$2,134,438Philanthropy$747,172Civil Rights$612,500Human Services$459,915Arts & Culture$371,528International$212,736

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.

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.

Princeton Area Community Foundation IncNJ47.1× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · Pseg Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Curtis W McGraw Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Provident Bank Foundation · The Wawa Foundation Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Geraldine R Dodge 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 organisation EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

26get no government money at all

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: DR MELVIN C TERRELL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

high risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing; revenue up 8.5× since.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 300363978 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on DR MELVIN C TERRELL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 90% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Educational Testing Service?

Find your warmest path to Educational Testing Service through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

92 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Educational Testing Service?

More from the funding graph

EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

92 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Educational Testing Service?

More from the funding graph