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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.

$580k
Granted FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
26
States reached
$48k
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$6.2MHuman Services$190kYouth Development$156kPublic Benefit$149kEmployment$140kCrime & Legal$133kCivil Rights$120kPublic Safety & Disaster$100kOther$0
02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k31 grants · $536k
$15,000
Median grant
26
States reached
$7.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
CHICAGO SCHOLARS FOUNDATION$19,606
GREAT ASPIRATIONS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM (GRASP)$19,606
BOTTOM LINE V$18,450
SOCALCAN$18,450
COLLEGE POSSIBLE$18,450
DENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION$18,106
EDUCATION IS FREEDOM FOUNDATION$18,106
LOSFALOUISIANA OFFICE OF STUDENT FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE$15,000
METRO STATE UNIVMINNESOTA STATE COLLEGES AND UNIV$15,000
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EARN TO LEARN: $10k → 15%BRONXWORKS: $8k → 28%ALABAMA POVERTY PROJECT INC: $20k → 16%ACCESS OPPORTUNITY: $20k → 19%EARN TO LEARN: $8k → 15%ALABAMA POSSIBLE: $20k → 16%ACCESS OPPORTUNITY: $12k → 19%ALABAMA POSSIBLE: $15k → 16%ALABAMA POSSIBLE: $15k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER HOUSTON: $12k → 16%COMMUNITY FAMILY CENTERS: $7k → 16%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
ID
MT
MN
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WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
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IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
UT
CO
MO
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WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
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AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.7M · 54 repeat orgs$3.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +41% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
94

Total granted

$3.7M
$3.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+41%

Still filing today

74%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
EducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • MICHIGAN COLLEGE ACCESS NETWORK
    7× · 2018–2025 · $241k · revenue +53%
  • EF
    EDUCATION FORWARD ARIZONA
    6× · 2018–2025 · $197k · revenue +205%
  • CN
    COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $167k · revenue +214%

Funded once

  • AP
    ADMITHUB PBC
    one grant, 2024 · $625k
  • AA
    ACHIEVE ATLANTA INC
    one grant, 2021 · $110k · revenue +18%
  • CA
    COLLEGE AND CAREER ACCESS CENTER OF JACKSONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $110k · revenue +30%
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
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…

Education
2
College Match

College match partners with high schools in los angeles county to identify high-achieving, low-income high school students and provide them with the necessary tools and guidance to get into top-ranked colleges with significant financial…

Education
3
Stem Advantage

Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…

Youth Development
4
Achieve Twin Cities

As one of the upper midwest's leading career and college readiness organizations, achieve twin cities rallies community support and delivers best-in-class programs to inspire and equip young people in minneapolis and saint paul, minnesota…

Youth Development
5
The Peer Power Foundation Inc

Peer power foundation hires, trains, and deploys college students to be success coaches in economically disadvantaged high schools. (expanded mission on schedule o)these success coaches work primarily inside of english, math, and science…

Education
6
Be College Ready
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7
College Track

See schedule ocollege track is a national college completion program that equips first-generation scholars to earn a bachelor's degree and build lives filled with opportunity, choice, purpose, and power. college track partners with first…

Education
8
Austin Partners in Education

Apie provides college and career readiness support through individualized academic and mentoring programs to prepare students for success.

Education
9
Futures Ignite Inc

We amplify youth and community power by inspiring, guiding, and advocating for youth to determine their college, career, and leadership futures.

Human Services
10
Solutions Exploring Success Post Hs
Employment
11
Community College Preparatory Academy Public Charter School

The mission of the community college preparatory academy public charter school is to provide the education and skills development to empower and prepare under-credited adults for postsecondary educational success, viable employment and…

Education
12
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is A Million Stars Inc Dba College Bound; 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.
04the grantee network

112 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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)
30
Early backer (in before they grew)
108/112
Grantees still filing
83/112
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ADMITHUB PBC: $624,799 · OtherADMITHUB PBCEDUCATION FORWARD ARIZONA: $197,019 · OtherEDUCATION FORWARD ARIZONAMILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $138,651 · Other+63 more: $2,425,799 · Other+63 moreMICHIGAN COLLEGE ACCESS NETWORK: $241,119 · EducationMICHIGAN COLLEGE ACCESS NETWORKCOLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC: $167,180 · EducationCOLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INCCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $154,856 · EducationONWARD WE LEARN: $130,397 · EducationCollege Success Foundation: $128,344 · EducationWOODWARD HINES EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $127,467 · EducationACHIEVE ATLANTA INC: $109,700 · EducationCOLLEGE AND CAREER ACCESS CENTER OF JACKSON: $109,700 · Education+56 more: $1,946,487 · Education+56 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY INC: $109,813 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC: $40,000 · PhilanthropyCOLLEGE BEYOND INC: $31,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN: $30,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC: $26,000 · PhilanthropyMILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $15,000 · PhilanthropyPARTNERSHIP FOR THE FUTURE: $10,381 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF PASSAIC COUNTY INC: $10,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $9,225 · PhilanthropyALABAMA POSSIBLE: $141,305 · Human ServicesACCESS OPPORTUNITY: $31,500 · Human ServicesLIVE THE SOLUTION DBA EARN TO LEARN: $17,500 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area: $12,000 · Human ServicesBRONXWORKS INC: $7,980 · Human Services+1 more: $7,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION JUMP START: $70,100 · Youth DevelopmentTEENSHARP: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentBridge the Gap College Prep: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DURANT: $17,280 · Youth DevelopmentDELAWARE COLLEGE SCHOLARS INC: $9,700 · Youth DevelopmentA MILLION STARS INC DBA COLLEGE BOUND: $9,700 · Youth DevelopmentIMENTOR INC: $9,700 · Youth DevelopmentCollegeCommunityCareer Inc: $7,000 · Youth DevelopmentONEGOAL: $6,775 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $107,838 · Community ImprovementMETROPOLITAN EDUCATION COMMISSION: $40,000 · Community ImprovementTHE BOTTOM LINE INC: $18,450 · Community ImprovementMID-AMERICA REGIONAL COUNCIL COMMUNITY SERVICES CORPORATION: $10,000 · Community ImprovementBE A LEADER FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Public Benefit
Other$3,386,268Education$3,115,250Philanthropy$281,919Human Services$217,285Youth Development$190,255Community Improvement$176,288Public Benefit$100,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMICHIGAN COLLEGE ACCESS NETWORK: $241,119 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetEDUCATION FORWARD ARIZONA: $197,019 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetCOLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC: $167,180 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $154,856 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetALABAMA POSSIBLE: $141,305 over 6y, 7.0% of budgetONWARD WE LEARN: $130,397 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCollege Success Foundation: $128,344 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWOODWARD HINES EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $127,467 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY INC: $109,813 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetACHIEVE ATLANTA INC: $109,700 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCOLLEGE AND CAREER ACCESS CENTER OF JACKSON: $109,700 over 1y, 20% of budgetGODDARD RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $108,150 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $107,838 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGIATE ACADEMIES: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBE A LEADER FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetClaremont Graduate University: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONEFUTURE COACHELLA VALLEY: $100,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetTHE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF ST LOUIS: $96,780 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTENNESSEE COLLEGE ACCESS AND SUCCESS NETWORK: $92,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetCOLLEGE FORWARD: $87,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetCOLLEGE HORIZONS INC: $79,700 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetI KNOW I CAN: $75,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSHIFT EDUCATION: $75,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetUASPIRE INC: $72,056 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetOPERATION JUMP START: $70,100 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetCOLLEGE VISIONS: $61,500 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetEDUCATION IS FREEDOM FOUNDATION: $61,069 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetProject GRAD Houston: $52,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budget10000 DEGREES: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $48,694 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN ANTONIO EDUCATION FUND DBA SAN ANTONIO EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP: $47,374 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE SEED FOUNDATION: $47,250 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSTUDENT U: $45,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMISSOURI COLLEGE AND CAREER ATTAINMENT NETWORK: $40,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetROCHESTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTYLER AREA P-16 COUNCIL DBA TYLER AREA BUSINESS EDUCATION COUNC: $40,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetCity Squash Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetUniversity of South Florida Foundation Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRI-COUNTY CRADLE TO CAREER COLLABORATIVE: $40,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetSPARK THE JOURNEY: $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMETROPOLITAN EDUCATION COMMISSION: $40,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC: $40,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetDC PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTRUCKEE MEADOWS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $39,080 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetDENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $37,619 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYONKERS PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC: $31,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetACCESS OPPORTUNITY: $31,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCOLLEGE BEYOND INC: $31,500 over 2y, 3.5% 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 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 COLLEGIATE ACADEMIES ↗
  • Who funds BE A LEADER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Claremont Graduate University ↗
  • Who funds ONEFUTURE COACHELLA VALLEY ↗
  • 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 IOWA COLLEGE ACCESS NETWORK ↗

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.

Educational Credit Ma…Ecmc FoundationLumina Foundation for…GenYOUTH IncorporatedStrada Education Foun…Gates FoundationRound It Up America I…For Inspiration and R…AT&T FoundationProject Lead the Way …Trellis FoundationThe George W Bush Fou…
Educational Credit Management CorporationMN85.6× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Attainment Network funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National College Attainment Network. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
49report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
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 159 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home