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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.

$12M
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$1.3M
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$107M
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $115k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $891k
  • $250k+16 grants · $11M
$322,402
Median grant
14
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION$1,329,065
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL$1,327,281
TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY (TA&M)$1,263,615
GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION$1,094,648
APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY$708,783
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$663,945
FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE$636,747
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT WILMINGTON$547,443
KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY$537,260
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$427,856
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY$391,329
TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY$357,369
NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY (NC STATE)$337,932
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-AUSTIN$327,246
DUKE UNIVERSITY$322,402
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $1.1M → 16%FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE: $903k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY: $1.1M → 10%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1.6M → 14%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $2.6M → 17%TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $753k → 11%TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY: $1.1M → 20%TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY (TA&M): $1.3M → 22%NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY (NC STATE): $995k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $1.9M → 13%GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1.1M → 13%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1.3M → 27%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $986k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY: $1.0M → 10%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1.2M → 14%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $2.3M → 17%TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY: $860k → 22%NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY: $852k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $1.4M → 13%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $738k → 27%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $826k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY: $982k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1.1M → 14%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $2.0M → 17%TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY: $832k → 22%NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY: $828k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $1.3M → 13%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $808k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY: $919k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $865k → 14%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $1.6M → 17%TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY: $717k → 22%NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY: $825k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $850k → 13%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $807k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY: $919k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $828k → 14%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $953k → 17%TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY (TA&M): $712k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $849k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY: $807k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $731k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $792k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $751k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $746k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $1.3M → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $896k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $765k → 14%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

AK
WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
PA
CT
RI
CA
UT
MO
VA
AZ
KS
NC
SC
GA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$98M · 36 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

36 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
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Total granted

$98M
$527k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+92%

Still filing today

31%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $537k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • NY
    New York University
    7× · 2017–2024 · $9.8M · revenue +76%
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $5.4M · revenue +45%
  • UO
    University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc
    6× · 2019–2025 · $4.5M · revenue +79%

Funded once

  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    one grant, 2022 · $198k
  • SO
    State Of Alaska
    one grant, 2017 · $171k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
    one grant, 2017 · $137k
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.

1
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
3
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
4
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
6
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
7
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
8
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
9
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
10
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
11
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
12
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Chicago; the most unlike its peers is New York University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 44 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
12/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $8,755,381 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY: $6,737,580 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEYNC STATE UNIVERSITY: $5,784,409 · OtherNC STATE UNIVERSITYTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $5,435,963 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI: $4,784,104 · OtherCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURIGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $4,028,339 · OtherGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITYREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA: $3,337,670 · OtherRECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $3,249,978 · OtherTEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: $3,109,602 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS: $2,979,961 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $2,644,777 · OtherMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $2,539,576 · Other+19 more: $10,087,991 · Other+19 moreNew York University: $9,824,440 · EducationNew York UniversityUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $7,408,698 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAUniversity of Georgia Research Foundation Inc: $4,549,467 · EducationUniversity of Georgia Research Foundation IncFRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE: $4,532,064 · EducationFRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGETEXAS A&M RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $4,154,969 · EducationTEXAS A&M RESEARCH FOUNDATIONDavidson College: $3,392,467 · EducationDavidson CollegeTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $3,225,571 · EducationTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITYDUKE UNIVERSITY: $2,642,576 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYUniversity of Chicago: $1,627,050 · EducationTrinity University: $1,556,873 · Education+2 more: $434,651 · EducationBROWN UNIVERSITY: $628,191 · Community Improvement
Other$63,475,331Education$43,348,826Community Improvement$628,191

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNew York University: $9,824,440 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $7,408,698 over 8y, 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 budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $628,191 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFURMAN UNIVERSITY: $423,551 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetACHIEVE ATLANTA INC: $11,100 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS A&M RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Davidson College ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds Trinity University ↗
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds FURMAN UNIVERSITY ↗

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 Soc…Hispanic Scholarship …Folds of Honor Founda…National Academy of S…American Council of L…The Trustees of Colum…National Collegiate A…American Heart Associ…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization National College Advising Corps Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National College Advising Corps Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
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 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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