· Private foundation
Higher Education Research and Scholarship Foundation
Its FY2017 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k25 grants · $162k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $187k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Westchester Community College Foundation | $12,000 |
| NVCC Educational Foundation | $12,000 |
| Blue Ridge CTC Foundation | $12,000 |
| LCCC Foundation | $10,000 |
| Chesapeake College Foundation | $10,000 |
| Frederick Community College Foundation | $10,000 |
| MTC Foundation | $10,000 |
| TTC Foundation | $10,000 |
| Montgomery College Foundation | $10,000 |
| College of Southern Maryland Foundation | $10,000 |
| FRCC Foundation | $9,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–17) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 67% of your 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.
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.
The foundation provides academic scholarships and financial support to the college.
The columbia state community college foundation encourages friends, alumni, economic partners and others to invest their time and resources toward improvement of education at columbia state community college and making higher education…
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.
To receive and maintain funds to aid and advance the welfare, development, purposes and programs of hudson valley community college, its students and alumni.
Through the generosity of donors, the foundation invests in student success and supports mid-state technical college's strategic plan.
To promote the cause of higher education and the mission of northeast state community college; to expand educational opportunities; and to acquire, manage, and administer foundation funds to achieve those objectives.
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.
The college foundation is organized and exists to help support the purpose and objectives of coastal carolina community college and to provide financial and other support beyond that which can be obtained through normal sources. funds…
To improve the quality of life in our community by securing private and public funds to strengthen educational and cultural opportunities, and to enhance community awareness of the college and the foundation.
Provides scholarships for beaufort county community college students.
The ntc foundation develops relationships that enable individuals, businesses and the community to advocate for and provide resources in support of northcentral technical college in accomplishing its mission.
To benefit and carry out the educational purposes of chattanooga state community college.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Virginia Peninsula Community College Educational Foundation 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.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 39 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.
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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: Ibm International Foundation · Verizon Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Higher Education Research and Scholarship Foundation 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.
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.
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