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National College Advising Corps Inc

College advising corps (cac) is the nation's largest nonprofit service organization dedicated to advancing educational equity and expanding opportunity for all high school students. Cac provides college enrollment and career guidance to students attending schools with limited advising resources. Our advisers help students define their…

$12M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
30
Grants FY2025
29
Organizations funded FY2024
10%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$322,402
Largest grant, FY2025
$1,329,065
Organizations funded a year
10 to 32
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
14
Total assets, FY2025
$12M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 10% of the organizations National College Advising Corps Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $438k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving29$11M3%
FY202429$12M10%
FY202324$7.7M4%
FY202232$16M16%
FY202110$2.3M20%
FY202026$15M15%
FY201922$13M14%
FY201821$11M14%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$107M

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
PA
CT
RI
CA
UT
MO
VA
AZ
KS
NC
SC
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
New York University$9,824,44070%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill$8,755,3819n/a
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley$6,737,5808n/a
Nc State University$5,784,4099n/a
Trustees of Boston University$5,435,96380%
Curators of the University of Missouri$4,784,1048n/a
University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc$4,549,46760%
Franklin & Marshall College$4,532,06490%
Texas A&M Research Foundation$4,154,96955%
Georgia State University$4,028,3397n/a
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All grantees of National College Advising Corps Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
New York University$9,824,44070%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill$8,755,3819n/a
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley$6,737,5808n/a
Nc State University$5,784,4099n/a
Trustees of Boston University$5,435,96380%
Curators of the University of Missouri$4,784,1048n/a
University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc$4,549,46760%
Franklin & Marshall College$4,532,06490%
Texas A&M Research Foundation$4,154,96955%
Georgia State University$4,028,3397n/a
Davidson College$3,392,46750%
Regents Univ of California$3,337,6705n/a
Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia$3,249,9788n/a
Texas Christian University$3,225,57180%
Texas A&M University$3,109,6024n/a
University of Texas$2,979,9619n/a
Regents of the University of Michigan$2,644,7779n/a
Duke University$2,642,57680%
Michigan State University$2,539,5768n/a
Appalachian State University$2,038,4116n/a
University of Chicago$1,627,05040%
The University of Kansas$1,621,7715n/a
Trinity University$1,556,87390%
University of North Carolina at Wilmington - College of Health & Human Serv$1,356,7315n/a
University of Georgia$1,252,4802n/a
University of California Santa Barbara$678,1855n/a
Kansas State University$537,2601n/a
University of Connecticut$465,5394n/a
Furman University$423,55150%
Board of Regents of the University of California (Merced)$376,8013n/a
Texas a & M University - San Antonio$295,7422n/a
University of Texas at El Paso$283,2103n/a
Indiana University School of Medicine$250,6544n/a
Regents of the University of California$197,9591n/a
State Of Alaska$171,2321n/a
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley$168,8182n/a
University of Arizona$137,0231n/a
University of North Texas at Dallas Foundation$114,8872n/a
University of Utah$73,1012n/a
University of Washington$58,1874n/a
Achieve Atlanta Inc$11,10010%
Regents of the University of California$10,0001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget National College Advising Corps Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNew York University: $9,824,440 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Boston University: $5,435,963 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Georgia Research Foundation Inc: $4,549,467 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetFranklin & Marshall College: $4,532,064 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetTexas A&M Research Foundation: $4,154,969 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetDavidson College: $3,392,467 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTexas Christian University: $3,225,571 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetDuke University: $2,642,576 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $1,627,050 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTrinity University: $1,556,873 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetFurman University: $423,551 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAchieve Atlanta Inc: $11,100 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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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.

American Chemical SocietyDC17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Chemical Society · Hispanic Scholarship Fund · Folds of Honor Foundation · National Academy of Sciences · American Council of Learned Societies · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · National Collegiate Athletic Association · American Heart Association 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.

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About National College Advising Corps Inc

How much does National College Advising Corps Inc give?
National College Advising Corps Inc reported 30 grants totaling $11,784,529 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does National College Advising Corps Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are National College Advising Corps Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: New York University ($9.8M), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ($8.8M), Regents of the University of California at Berkeley ($6.7M).
Does National College Advising Corps Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as National College Advising Corps Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Chemical Society, Hispanic Scholarship Fund, Folds of Honor Foundation.
Where is National College Advising Corps Inc based?
National College Advising Corps Inc is based in NC.

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 44 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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