How much did HIGHER EDUCATION RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP grant in FY2017?

HIGHER EDUCATION RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP reported 39 grants totaling $348,600 in its FY2017 IRS filing.

Where is HIGHER EDUCATION RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP based?

HIGHER EDUCATION RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP is based in WV.

HIGHER EDUCATION RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP

Foundation Dossiers

· Private foundation

HIGHER EDUCATION RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP

This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.

$349k

Granted FY2017

Grants

Communities

$25k

Largest

01What you fund

01FY2017 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2017

Under $10k25 grants · $162k
$10k–50k14 grants · $187k

$7,000

Median grant

States reached

$42

Total assets

Largest grants

Community College of Baltimore Foundation$25,000
NWACC Foundation$20,000
Anne Arundel Community College Foundation$20,000
Fayetteville Technical Community College Foundatio$16,000
Blue Ridge CTC Foundation$12,000
NVCC Educational Foundation$12,000
Westchester Community College Foundation$12,000
Montgomery College Foundation$10,000
College of Southern Maryland Foundation$10,000
TTC Foundation$10,000
Chesapeake College Foundation$10,000
Frederick Community College Foundation$10,000
MTC Foundation$10,000
LCCC Foundation$10,000
Tidewater Community College Foundation$9,000

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–17) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 8%. 69% of your 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 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.

Columbia State Community College

Encourages improvement of education at our college and making higher education accessible.

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South Central College Foundation

To hold, invest, or expend donations for the development of education.

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Lower Columbia College Foundation

Lower columbia college foundation's mission is to provide financial support where public funds are not sufficient, and to gather public support for the enhancement of educational opportunities at lower columbia college.

Education

Forsyth Technical Community College

The purposes of the foundation are to foster public understanding of, and support for, forsyth technical community college and to solicit and promote donations of any kind for the exclusive benefit of the college.

Education

Hudson Valley Community College

Supporting the mission, the students, and the alumni of the hudson valley community college.

Education

Chattanooga State Community

To support and advance the goals in support of the mission of chattanooga state community college.

Education

Cambridge Community College Foundation

To fulfill the potential of the students in east central minnesota, by expanding their opportunities and broadening their horizons with an affordable education and promise of a strong future.

Philanthropy

Montgomery County Community

The foundation raises funds on behalf of the montgomery county community college.

Education

Dakota County Technical College

Utilize board strengths and community connections to influence dctc in maintaining relevancy & attracting & retaining students while supporting their resource & financial needs of current and future students in a meaningful & sustainable…

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Central Community College Foundation in

Provide monetary and advisory support for central community college

Education

Northeast State Community College

The northeast state community college foundation promotes and supports academic and educational scholarship, community service, and other programs offered by the college in an effort to provide the resources necessary for students to have…

Education

Columbia-Greene Community College

The columbia-greene community college foundation is organized exclusively for educational and cultural purposes to develop and foster scholarship and charitable activities.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Carolina Technical College and the most unlike its peers is Ntc Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

17 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)

17/17

Grantees still filing

14/17

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$254,600Education$77,000Philanthropy$12,000Arts & Culture$5,000

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.

Ibm International FoundationNY16.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ibm International Foundation · Verizon Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 HIGHER EDUCATION RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP 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.

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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.

04Through 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: Augusta Technical College Foundation.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~43 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 11.2× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 581750663 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 Augusta Technical College Foundation, 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

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 43 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% of their budget — diversified.
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.

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How do I get to Higher Education Research and Scholarship?

Find your warmest path to Higher Education Research and Scholarship 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.

HIGHER EDUCATION RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Higher Education Research and Scholarship?

More from the funding graph

HIGHER EDUCATION RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Higher Education Research and Scholarship?

More from the funding graph