· Public charity
National College Attainment Network
Our mission is to build, strengthen, and empower communities and stakeholders to close equity gaps in postsecondary attainment for all students.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k31 grants · $536k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GODDARD RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CTR | $48,450 |
| MICHIGAN COLLEGE ACCESS NETWORK | $36,725 |
| COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND | $30,000 |
| EDUCATION FORWARD ARIZONA | $28,106 |
| COLLEGE SUCCESS FOUNDATION - DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA | $27,331 |
| ALABAMA POSSIBLE | $20,000 |
| GREAT ASPIRATIONS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM (GRASP) | $19,606 |
| CHICAGO SCHOLARS FOUNDATION | $19,606 |
| COLLEGE POSSIBLE | $18,450 |
| BOTTOM LINE V | $18,450 |
| SOCALCAN | $18,450 |
| EDUCATION IS FREEDOM FOUNDATION | $18,106 |
| DENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $18,106 |
| WSU TECH | $15,000 |
| MILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $146k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
MICHIGAN COLLEGE ACCESS NETWORK7× · 2018–2025 · $241k · revenue +53%- EFEDUCATION FORWARD ARIZONA6× · 2018–2025 · $197k · revenue +205%
- CNCOLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC6× · 2017–2025 · $167k · revenue +214%
Funded once
- APADMITHUB PBCone grant, 2024 · $625k
- AAACHIEVE ATLANTA INCone grant, 2021 · $110k · revenue +18%
- CACOLLEGE AND CAREER ACCESS CENTER OF JACKSONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $110k · revenue +30%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is A Million Stars Inc Dba College Bound and the most unlike its peers is Boys and Girls Club of Durant. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 26 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 — 1% 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.
112 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. 112 of the 159 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.
- Who funds MICHIGAN COLLEGE ACCESS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FORWARD ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA POSSIBLE ↗
- Who funds ONWARD WE LEARN ↗
- Who funds College Success Foundation ↗
- Who funds WOODWARD HINES EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVE ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE AND CAREER ACCESS CENTER OF JACKSON ↗
- Who funds GODDARD RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds BE A LEADER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ONEFUTURE COACHELLA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds COLLEGIATE ACADEMIES ↗
- Who funds Claremont Graduate University ↗
- Who funds THE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE COLLEGE ACCESS AND SUCCESS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE FORWARD ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE HORIZONS INC ↗
- Who funds I KNOW I CAN ↗
- Who funds SHIFT EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds UASPIRE INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION JUMP START ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE VISIONS ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION IS FREEDOM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Project GRAD Houston ↗
- Who funds 10000 DEGREES ↗
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: Educational Credit Management Corporation · Ecmc Foundation · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · GenYOUTH Incorporated · Strada Education Foundation Inc · Gates Foundation · Round It Up America Inc · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · AT&T Foundation · Project Lead the Way Inc · Trellis Foundation · The George W Bush 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 College Attainment Network 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.
- Delaware College Scholars Inc — 18% of income from government
- Teensharp — 11% of income from government
- United Way of Passaic County Inc — 7% of income from government
- Uaspire Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Bottom Line Inc — 0% of income from government
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.