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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 you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0165% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2023–2024.

Education$176kEmployment$20kPhilanthropy$10kOther$109k
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$10,000
Median grant
19
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OHIO ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING$10,000
ROCKY MOUNTAIN 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
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING$10,000
NEW JERSEY ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING$10,000
SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING$10,000
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING$10,000
MINNESOTA ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING$10,000
MISSOURI ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING$10,000
PENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING$10,000
ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING$10,000
IOWA ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING$10,000
WISCONSIN ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING$10,000
MICHIGAN ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING$10,000
02The need
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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.

show:

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

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

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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.

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Where the work is directed

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

About 29% of National Association for College Admission Counseling’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

National Association for College Admission Counselinglessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

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

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you 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

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

  • NJ
    NEW JERSEY ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +12%
  • PA
    PENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +12%
  • 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%
  • RM
    Rocky Mtn Assoc for College Admission Counseling
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • HA
    HAWAII ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -18%

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

04Your 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.

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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
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Whatsoever Is Good

Assisting students college prep

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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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indiana Association for College Admission Counseling and 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 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. 18 of the 19 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.

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

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NEW 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 COUNSELINGKENTUCKY ASSOCIATION OF SECONDARY AND COLLEGE ADMISSIONS — $20,000 · EducationKENTUCKY ASSOCIATION OF SECONDARY AND COLLEGE ADMISSIONSOHIO 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 INCGreat Plains Assoc for College Admission — $20,000 · EducationGreat Plains Assoc for College AdmissionIOWA 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 INCRocky Mtn Assoc for College Admission Counseling — $10,000 · EducationRocky Mtn Assoc for College Admission CounselingMissouri Association for College Admission Counseling Inc — $10,000 · EducationMissouri Association for College Admission Counseling IncPACIFIC NW ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING — $10,000 · EducationPACIFIC NW ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELINGMINNESOTA ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING — $20,000 · OtherMINNESOTA ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMIS…WISCONSIN ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING INC — $20,000 · OtherWISCONSIN ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMIS…Michigan Association for College Admission Counseling — $20,000 · OtherMichigan Association for College Admiss…NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING INC — $20,000 · OtherNEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADM…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 org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their 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 budgetKENTUCKY ASSOCIATION OF SECONDARY AND COLLEGE ADMISSIONS — $20,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetMINNESOTA ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING — $20,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetMichigan Association for College Admission Counseling — $20,000 over 2y, 16% 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 budgetINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGreat Plains Assoc for College Admission — $20,000 over 2y, 6.4% 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 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 budgetPACIFIC NW ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING — $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetILLINOIS ASSOCIATION FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION COUNSELING — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budget
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not 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 →

Open a dossier: 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 organization National Association for College Admission Counseling 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%your 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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