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National Association for College Admission Counseling at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

National Association for College Admission Counseling

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

$190k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
19
States reached
$10k
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, FY2023 to 2024.

Education$315k
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
19
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WISCONSIN ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING$10,000
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING$10,000
MINNESOTA ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING$10,000
IOWA ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING$10,000
KENTUCKY ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING$10,000
INDIANA ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING$10,000
MICHIGAN ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING$10,000
SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING$10,000
GREAT PLAINS ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING$10,000
PACIFIC NORTHWEST ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING$10,000
PENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING$10,000
OHIO ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING$10,000
DAKOTA ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING$10,000
NEW JERSEY ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING$10,000
ROCKY MOUNTAIN ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING$10,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 47% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING: $10k → 17%MINNESOTA ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING: $10k → 14%PENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING: $10k → 8%SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING: $10k → 11%IOWA ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING: $10k → 9%MICHIGAN ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING: $10k → 8%MICHIGAN ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING: $10k → 16%MISSOURI ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING: $10k → 11%WISCONSIN ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING: $10k → 17%INDIANA ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING: $10k → 5%OHIO ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING: $10k → 5%ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING: $10k → 14%NEW JERSEY ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING: $10k → 4%INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING: $10k → 7%DAKOTA ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING: $9k → 5%DAKOTA ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING: $10k → 12%KENTUCKY ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING: $10k → 15%NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING: $10k → 17%MINNESOTA ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING: $10k → 14%PENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING: $10k → 8%IOWA ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING: $6k → 9%INDIANA ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING: $10k → 5%OHIO ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING: $10k → 5%NEW JERSEY ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING: $10k → 4%INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING: $10k → 7%KENTUCKY ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING: $10k → 15%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
MN
IL
WI
MI
MA
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CO
MO
KY
VA
KS
HI
TX
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 29% of National Association for College Admission Counseling’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

National Association for College Admission Counselinglessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$255k · 13 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
6

Total granted

$255k
$60k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
0%

Still filing today

92%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
EducationEmploymentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • GP
    Great Plains Assoc for College Admission
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +8%
  • MA
    Michigan Association for College Admission Counseling
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +99%
  • KA
    KENTUCKY ASSOCIATION OF SECONDARY AND COLLEGE ADMISSIONS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • SA
    SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -12%
  • PN
    PACIFIC NW ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +1%
  • HA
    HAWAII ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -18%
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.

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Texas Assoc for College Admission Counseling Inc

Texas association for college admission counseling, inc.(tacac) provides support to those who are involved helping students through the postsecondary education planning process (continued on page 26).the organization also provides a…

Education
2
Association of College Counselors in Independent Schools

The organization is an educational leader and professional community that empowers its members as they educate and support students, families, and institutions. accis provides professional development, mentorship, and thought leadership.

Education
3
Support Options 4 College

Serves high school seniors by helping them transition from high school to college. so4c provides the support and resources students need to succeed in college

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4
National Association of Colleges & Employers

The purposes for which the corporation was formed are: to provide for an exchange of information on policies; to assemble and disseminate information through appropriate media; to encourage and assist in the advancement of individuals in…

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5
Potomac and Chesapeake Association for College Admission Counseling Inc

Support and advance college admission professionals as they guide their institutions, students, and families in an ethical manner.

Education
6
Whatsoever Is Good

Assisting students college prep

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7
New England Collegiate Conference Inc

The mission of the NECC is to provide for athletic competition among institutions that share similar academic aspirations and are committed to the importance of the total educational experience for students engaged in sports.The NECC…

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8
The National Association of College and University Food Services

To promote excellence in campus dining, provide conference and tradeshow venues, and educational programs for professional development. As well as offer surveys for business practices and benchmarking.

Education
9
American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers

To advance and support a richly diverse, globally interconnected community of higher education professionals as well as the institutions, organizations, and learners they serve through its resources, leadership, and advocacy.

Education
10
Western Association for College Admission Counseling

The western association for college admission counseling supports and advances the work of counseling and enrollment professionals from california and nevada as they help all students realize their full potential, with emphasis on freshman…

Community Improvement
11
National Association for College Admission Counseling

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

Education
12
Association for the Assessment of Learning in Higher Education

Our mission is to develop and support a community of educators and inform assessment practices in higher education to foster and improve student learning and institutional quality.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indiana Association for College Admission Counseling; the most unlike its peers is Southern Association of College Admission Counseling Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
9/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Great Plains Assoc for College Admission: $20,000 · EducationGreat Plains Assoc for College AdmissionKENTUCKY ASSOCIATION OF SECONDARY AND COLLEGE ADMISSIONS: $20,000 · EducationKENTUCKY ASSOCIATION OF SECONDARY AND COLLEGE ADMISSIONSNEW JERSEY ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING INC: $20,000 · EducationNEW JERSEY ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING INCPENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING: $20,000 · EducationPENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELINGOHIO ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING: $20,000 · EducationOHIO ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELINGINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING INC: $20,000 · EducationINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING INCIOWA ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION C: $16,000 · EducationIOWA ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION CSOUTHERN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING INC: $10,000 · EducationSOUTHERN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING INCPACIFIC NW ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING: $10,000 · EducationPACIFIC NW ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELINGMissouri Association for College Admission Counseling Inc: $10,000 · EducationMissouri Association for College Admission Counseling IncRocky Mtn Assoc for College Admission Counseling: $10,000 · EducationRocky Mtn Assoc for College Admission CounselingMichigan Association for College Admission Counseling: $20,000 · OtherMichigan Association for College Admiss…WISCONSIN ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING INC: $20,000 · OtherWISCONSIN ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMIS…NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING INC: $20,000 · OtherNEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADM…MINNESOTA ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING: $20,000 · OtherMINNESOTA ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMIS…Council On College Admission In South Dakota: $18,975 · OtherCouncil On College Admission In South D…HAWAII ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING: $10,000 · OtherHAWAII ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSIO…INDIANA ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING: $19,900 · EmploymentILLINOIS ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Education$176,000Other$108,975Employment$19,900Philanthropy$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGreat Plains Assoc for College Admission: $20,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetMichigan Association for College Admission Counseling: $20,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetKENTUCKY ASSOCIATION OF SECONDARY AND COLLEGE ADMISSIONS: $20,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetNEW JERSEY ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING INC: $20,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING: $20,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetOHIO ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING: $20,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetNEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetMINNESOTA ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING: $20,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetINDIANA ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING: $19,900 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetCouncil On College Admission In South Dakota: $18,975 over 2y, 13% of budgetIOWA ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION C: $16,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetSOUTHERN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPACIFIC NW ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetHAWAII ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING: $10,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetMissouri Association for College Admission Counseling Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetILLINOIS ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile Foundation
Amazonsmile FoundationWA1.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 National Association for College Admission Counseling funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Association for College Admission Counseling. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 19 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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