New Jersey · Public charity
Educational Testing Service
EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE (ets) was incorporated in 1947 by the board of regents for the education department of the state of new york as an educational organization to engage in research, services and other activities in the field of educational testing. Mission our mission is to help advance quality and equity in education by…
- $464k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $53k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 44
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.6B
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations Educational Testing Service funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 3 | $53k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $349k | 19% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $915k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $2.3M | 57% |
| FY2021 | 44 | $960k | 34% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $717k | 24% |
| FY2019 | 37 | $781k | 30% |
| FY2018 | 39 | $1.3M | 44% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Institute for Student Achievement Foundation | $1,350,000 | 1 | 43% |
| Children's Defense Fund | $768,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Lawrence Township Education Foundation | $499,210 | 7 | 58% |
| American Assoc of Hispanics in Higher Education | $417,180 | 8 | 20% |
| Education Law Center Inc | $220,500 | 8 | 2% |
| Ewing Public Education Foundation Inc | $215,872 | 6 | 74% |
| United Way of Greater Mercer County | $200,462 | 4 | 5% |
| National Awareness Alliance | $195,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Young Audiences of New Jersey Inc | $192,190 | 6 | 2% |
| Hispa Inc | $168,110 | 6 | 9% |
Show all 114 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($51k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Educational Testing Service supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 88 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · Investors Foundation Inc · Pseg Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Curtis W McGraw Foundation · The Provident Bank Foundation · George H and Estelle M Sands Foundation · Tenacre Foundation · Oceanfirst Foundation · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc
How this is measured
About Educational Testing Service
- How much does Educational Testing Service give?
- Educational Testing Service reported 3 itemized grants totaling $52,500, out of $464,444 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 44 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Educational Testing Service fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (64%), Civil Rights (11%), Arts & Culture (5%).
- Who are Educational Testing Service's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Institute for Student Achievement Foundation ($1.4M), Children's Defense Fund ($769k), Lawrence Township Education Foundation ($499k).
- Does Educational Testing Service fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Educational Testing Service?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc, Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc, Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc.
- Where is Educational Testing Service based?
- Educational Testing Service is based in NJ.
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