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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.

$464k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$5.3MCivil Rights$911kArts & Culture$418kInternational$334kHuman Services$317kPhilanthropy$230kCommunity Improvement$157kEnvironment$141kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $52,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $464,444 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $411,944 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.6B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LAWRENCE TOWNSHIP EDUCATION FOUNDATION$25,000
SHILOH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP$20,000
TRENTON AREA SOUP KITCHEN$7,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%VICTIMS FIRST INC: $10k → 14%AUSTIN AREA URBAN LEAGUE INC: $5k → 10%Parents Step Ahead: $28k → 14%PARENTS STEP AHEAD INC: $25k → 14%PARENTS STEP AHEAD: $25k → 14%NATIONAL CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF CRIME: $10k → 9%Parents Step Ahead Inc: $25k → 14%ANCHOR HOUSE INC: $15k → 11%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $30k → 17%PARENTS STEP AHEAD INC: $25k → 14%National Urban League: $25k → 17%Anchor House Foundation Inc: $10k → 11%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $25k → 17%COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF MERCER INC: $25k → 11%National Urban League: $25k → 17%Anchor House Foundation Inc: $10k → 11%COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF MERCER INC: $15k → 11%Fight for Children: $5k → 14%Child Care Connection Inc: $15k → 11%YWCA San Antonio: $10k → 16%COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF MERCER COUNTY INC: $14k → 11%THE YWCA PRINCETON INC: $20k → 11%YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PRINCETON NJ (YWCA): $18k → 11%THE YWCA PRINCETON INC: $13k → 11%THE YWCA PRINCETON INC: $10k → 11%UIH FAMILY PARTNERS: $20k → 11%UIH FAMILY PARTNERS: $10k → 11%UIH Family Partners: $6k → 11%EVERY CHILD VALUED: $20k → 11%Every Child Valued: $15k → 11%Every Child Valued: $15k → 11%EVERY CHILD VALUED: $15k → 11%MILLHILL CHILD AND FAMILY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MO
VA
DE
AZ
NC
DC
LA
MS
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.5M · 54 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

54 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 51 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
61

Total granted

$5.5M
$2.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+15%

Still filing today

80%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyEmploymentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
    7× · 2017–2023 · $769k · revenue +39%
  • EL
    EDUCATION LAW CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $221k · revenue +96%
  • YOUNG AUDIENCES OF NEW JERSEY INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $192k · revenue +36%

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 -50%
  • AA
    AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIESgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $80k · revenue +55%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
National Association for College Admission Counseling

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

Education
2
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…

Philanthropy
3
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
4
Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.

Education
5
Independent Colleges and Universities of New Jersey a Nj Nonprofit Corporation

The mission of the independent colleges and universities of new jersey, 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 promoting…

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6
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education
7
National Association of Independent Schools Inc

As the largest association of independent schools, nais co-creates the future of education by uniting and empowering our community. we do this through thought leadership, research, creation and curation of resources, and direct…

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8
National Association of College and University Attorneys

To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.

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9
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
10
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
11
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
12
Njcpa Scholarship Fund

The mission of the scholarship fund is to attract the best and the brightest of new jersey students and residents into the accounting profession and to support attaining the certified public accountant designation.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Jersey Seeds Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

103 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
96/103
Grantees still filing
66/103
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INSTITUTE FOR STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT FOUNDATION: $1,350,000 · EducationINSTITUTE FOR STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT FOUNDATIONAMERICAN ASSOC OF HISPANICS IN HIGHER EDUCATION: $417,180 · EducationAMERICAN ASSOC OF HISPANICS IN HIGHER EDUCATI…EDUCATION LAW CENTER INC: $220,500 · EducationEDUCATION LAW CENTER INCEWING PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $215,872 · EducationEWING PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCEducational Leadership Foundation of New Jersey Inc: $165,000 · Education+28 more: $957,634 · Education+28 moreNATIONAL AWARENESS ALLIANCE: $195,000 · OtherNATIONAL AWARENESS ALLIANCEHISPA INC: $168,110 · OtherHISPA INCMONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP BOARD OF EDUCATION: $115,766 · OtherOcean City Board of Education: $77,979 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE: $75,000 · OtherNEW VENTURE FUND: $90,000 · OtherSHILOH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $125,000 · OtherSHILOH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT C…+52 more: $1,397,967 · Other+52 moreCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND: $768,500 · Civil RightsCHILDREN'S…+1 more: $5,000 · Civil RightsLAWRENCE TOWNSHIP EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $499,210 · PhilanthropyLAWRENCE T…UNITED WAY OF GREATER MERCER COUNTY: $200,462 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY…+5 more: $72,500 · Philanthropy+5 morePARENTS STEP AHEAD: $127,867 · Human ServicesNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $105,000 · Human ServicesTHE YWCA PRINCETON INC: $60,918 · Human ServicesCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF MERCER COUNTY INC: $54,000 · Human ServicesEVERY CHILD VALUED A NJ NonProfit Corporation: $50,590 · Human ServicesANCHOR HOUSE INC: $50,556 · Human ServicesUIH Family Partners d/b/a The Father Center of New Jersey: $36,296 · Human Services+7 more: $60,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG AUDIENCES OF NEW JERSEY INC: $192,190 · Arts & CultureLIFE PIECES TO MASTERPIECES: $165,000 · Arts & CultureMCCARTER THEATRE COMPANY: $50,562 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $10,000 · Arts & CultureJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NEW JERSEY: $158,978 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $75,000 · International
Education$3,326,186Other$2,244,822Civil Rights$773,500Philanthropy$772,172Human Services$545,227Arts & Culture$417,752International$233,978

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINSTITUTE FOR STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT FOUNDATION: $1,350,000 over 1y, 43% of budgetCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND: $768,500 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetLAWRENCE TOWNSHIP EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $499,210 over 7y, 58% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOC OF HISPANICS IN HIGHER EDUCATION: $417,180 over 8y, 20% of budgetEDUCATION LAW CENTER INC: $220,500 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetEWING PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $215,872 over 6y, 74% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER MERCER COUNTY: $200,462 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetYOUNG AUDIENCES OF NEW JERSEY INC: $192,190 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetHISPA INC: $168,110 over 6y, 9.1% of budgetLIFE PIECES TO MASTERPIECES: $165,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetEducational Leadership Foundation of New Jersey Inc: $165,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NEW JERSEY: $158,978 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetPARENTS STEP AHEAD: $127,867 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetSHILOH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $125,000 over 9y, 9.1% of budgetNational Network of State Teachers of the Year: $110,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $105,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAFRICAN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $97,150 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $90,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDR MELVIN C TERRELL FOUNDATION: $76,500 over 2y, 90% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PRINCETON: $73,424 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCOUNCIL OF CHIEF STATE SCHOOL OFFICERS: $67,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE YWCA PRINCETON INC: $60,918 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetOPPORTUNITY JUNCTION INC: $60,522 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetMERCER COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATI: $56,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetPRINCETON MIDJERSEY REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $56,500 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SAN ANTONIO: $56,188 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF MERCER COUNTY INC: $54,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetEVERY CHILD VALUED A NJ NonProfit Corporation: $50,590 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetMCCARTER THEATRE COMPANY: $50,562 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetANCHOR HOUSE INC: $50,556 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHE WATERSHED INSTITUTE INC: $50,512 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBlack Doctoral Network Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR CITIZENS AND SCHOLARS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $45,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSALZBURG GLOBAL SEMINAR INC: $37,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUIH Family Partners d/b/a The Father Center of New Jersey: $36,296 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetJobs for America's Graduates Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNEW JERSEY SEEDS INC: $30,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Mercer County Inc: $25,576 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc: $25,532 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAchieving My Purpose Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budget50CAN INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MERCER COUNTY INC: $25,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR OPPORTUNITY IN EDUCATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetISAIAH HOUSE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNational Indian Education Assn: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Bristol-Myers Squibb …Princeton Area Commun…Citizens Philanthropi…Investors Foundation …Pseg Foundation IncThe Robert Wood Johns…Curtis W McGraw Found…The Provident Bank Fo…George H and Estelle …Tenacre FoundationOceanfirst FoundationLumina Foundation for…
Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation IncNJ53.5× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Educational Testing Service funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Educational Testing Service. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 121 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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