· 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.
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.
The 16 grants below total $348,990 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $762,250 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $413,260 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $145k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $166k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR HISPANICS IN HIGHER EDUCATION | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE | $25,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NEW JERSEY | $20,000 |
| SHILOH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP | $20,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MERCER COUNTY | $10,000 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS | $10,000 |
| TOUGALOO COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
| TRENTON AREA SOUP KITCHEN (TASK) | $7,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | $7,500 |
| THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
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 (FY17–23, $545k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 41 since wound down; 3 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND7× · 2017–2023 · $769k · revenue +39%- ELEDUCATION LAW CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $221k · revenue +96%
YOUNG AUDIENCES OF NEW JERSEY INC6× · 2017–2023 · $192k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- IFINSTITUTE FOR STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $1.4M · revenue -86% · 43% of their budget
- ALAFRICAN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -50%
- AAAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIESgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $80k · revenue +55%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Jersey Seeds Inc and the most unlike its peers is Abundant New Life Ministries. 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.
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 21% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
103 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. 103 of the 121 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 INSTITUTE FOR STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE TOWNSHIP EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOC OF HISPANICS IN HIGHER EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EWING PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER MERCER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG AUDIENCES OF NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds HISPA INC ↗
- Who funds Educational Leadership Foundation of New Jersey Inc ↗
- Who funds LIFE PIECES TO MASTERPIECES ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds PARENTS STEP AHEAD ↗
- Who funds National Network of State Teachers of the Year ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds SHILOH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES ↗
- Who funds DR MELVIN C TERRELL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PRINCETON ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL OF CHIEF STATE SCHOOL OFFICERS ↗
- Who funds THE YWCA PRINCETON INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY JUNCTION INC ↗
- Who funds MERCER COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATI ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON MIDJERSEY REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF MERCER COUNTY 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: 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
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 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.
- The Child Care Connection Inc — 92% of income from government
- Anchor House Inc — 45% of income from government
- Prevention Education Inc — 39% of income from government
- The Young People's Project Inc — 39% of income from government
- Hispa Inc — 26% of income from government
- Isaiah House Inc — 21% of income from government
- National Center for Victims of Crime Inc — 10% of income from government
- Homefront Inc — 9% of income from government
- United Way of Greater Mercer County — 8% of income from government
- Lawrenceville Fire Company Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Watershed Institute Inc — 3% of income from government
- Young Audiences of New Jersey Inc — 1% 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.