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Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities accredits institutions of higher education by applying evidence-informed standards and processes to support continuous improvements and promote equitable student achievement and success.

$321k
Granted FY2021
6
Grants FY2021
5
States reached
$204k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2021 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 6 grants below total $253,985 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $320,559 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $66,574 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2021

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $204k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES AND SCHOOLS COMMISSION ON COLLEGES INC$203,985
TREASURE VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$10,000
CHIEF DULL KNIFE COLLEGE$10,000
FOUNDATION OF YAKIMA VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE$10,000
NEVADA STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC$10,000
COLLEGE OF SOUTHERN NEVADA FOUNDATION INC$10,000
02The need
02

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 (FY21–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHIEF DULL KNIFE COLLEGE: $10k → 18%TREASURE VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 20%SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES AND SCHOOLS COMMISSION ON COLLEGES INC: $204k → 14%COLLEGE OF SOUTHERN NEVADA FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 13%NEVADA STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 13%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.

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.

03Your field
03the grantee network

6 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
4/6
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES AND SCHOOLS COMMISSION ON COLLEGES INC — $203,985 · EducationSOUTHERN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES AND SCHOOLS COMMISSION ON COLLEGES INCFOUNDATION OF YAKIMA VALLEY COLLEGE — $10,000 · EducationNEVADA STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationTREASURE VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · PhilanthropyCOLLEGE OF SOUTHERN NEVADA FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyCHIEF DULL KNIFE COLLEGE — $10,000 · Other
Education$223,985Philanthropy$20,000Other$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSOUTHERN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES AND SCHOOLS COMMISSION ON COLLEGES INC — $203,985 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFOUNDATION OF YAKIMA VALLEY COLLEGE — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNEVADA STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTREASURE VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHIEF DULL KNIFE COLLEGE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOLLEGE OF SOUTHERN NEVADA FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities 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 · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 6 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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