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Online Learning Consortium Inc

To assist educators and organizations with integrating and improving the quality of digital and online education by improving the quality, scale, and breadth of online education via providing resources, professional development, best-practice publications, quality benchmarking, practitioner-based and empirical research and expert…

$400k
Granted FY2018
13
Grants FY2018
10
States reached
$100k
Largest
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 2018.

Education$690kRecreation & Sports$110k
02FY2018 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2018

  • $10k–50k10 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $300k
$10,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SALT LAKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA$100,000
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY$100,000
IVY TECH COMMUNITY COLLEGE$10,000
BAY PATH UNIVERSITY$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FDTN$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FDTN$10,000
GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY$10,000
PORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE$10,000
NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY$10,000
BOSSIER PARISH COMMUNITY COLLEGE$10,000
PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY$10,000
MOHAVE COMMUNITY COLLEGE$10,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 53% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%GLENDALE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $10k → 11%MOHAVE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $10k → 17%MERRIMACK COLLEGE: $10k → 10%BAY PATH UNIVERSITY: $10k → 17%CAL STATE POLY TECH UNIV-POMONA: $10k → 14%COLLEGE OF THE SEQUOIAS: $10k → 18%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $100k → 13%PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 12%QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $10k → 12%SALT LAKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $100k → 8%GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 13%IVY TECH COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $10k → 16%NATIONAL LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $100k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FDTN: $10k → 18%RICHARD BLAND COLLEGE OF WILLIAM: $10k → 11%NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 19%BOSSIER PARISH COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $10k → 13%SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE UNIVERSITY: $100k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND: $10k → 9%SALT LAKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $10k → 8%OAKTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $20k → 14%WESTERN GOVERNORS UNIVERSITY: $100k → 8%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

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NH
IL
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CA
UT
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AZ
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MS
GA
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 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
Northeastern University
Education
2
Norwich University

Norwich's mission is to give our youth an education that shall be american in its character.

Education
3
New England College

An independent liberal arts college offering undergraduate, graduate and professional programs.

Education
4
Southern New Hampshire University

Southern New Hampshire University transforms the lives of students. Our success is defined by our students' success. By relentlessly challenging the status quo and providing the best support in higher education, Southern New Hampshire…

Education
5
Niagara University

Niagara university educates its students and enriches their lives though programs in the liberal arts and through career preparation, informed by the catholic and vincentian traditions.

Education
6
North Carolina State University

Supports, by financial assistance and otherwise, the various colleges within the university, the libraries, and other university-connected functions.

Education
7
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes.

Education
8
Western New England University

See Schedule O Statement for Part III, Line 1 that also applies to Part I, Line 1

Education
9
New England Institute of Technology

The mission of new england institute of technology (neit) is described in schedule o*the mission of new england institute of technology (neit) is to provide specialized undergraduate and graduate degree and certificate programs which…

Education
10
National University

National university is a post secondary level educational institution.

Education
11
Long Island University

Provide excellence and access in education to those who seek to expand their knowledge. see sch o.

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12
Husson University

Educational Institution

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bay Path University; the most unlike its peers is National Louis 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

6 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. 6 of the 24 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
6/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SALT LAKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $110,000 · OtherSALT LAKE COMMUNITY COLLEGEWESTERN GOVERNORS UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · OtherWESTERN GOVERNORS UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $100,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDAARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · OtherARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITYOAKTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $20,000 · Other+13 more: $130,000 · Other+13 moreSouthern New Hampshire University: $100,000 · EducationSouthern New Hampshire UniversityNational Louis University: $100,000 · EducationNational Louis UniversityMERRIMACK COLLEGE: $10,000 · EducationQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationBay Path University: $10,000 · EducationUniversity of New England: $10,000 · Education
Other$560,000Education$240,000

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSouthern New Hampshire University: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Louis University: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMERRIMACK COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBay Path University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of New England: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Southern New Hampshire University ↗
  • Who funds National Louis University ↗
  • Who funds MERRIMACK COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Bay Path University ↗
  • Who funds University of New England ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Online Learning Consortium Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Online Learning Consortium Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Merrimack College: 2% of income from government
  • Bay Path University: 1% of income from government
  • Quinnipiac University: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 24 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 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 FY2018, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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