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The Institute for College Access & Success

We seek to support state and federal policymakers through research, policy analysis, and advocacy about building a better, more affordable, and higher quality higher education system.

$392k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$83k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0189% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.

Employment$213kEducation$165kSocial Science$65kCommunity Improvement$60kCivil Rights$50kHuman Services$35kOther$72k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 5 grants below total $139,900 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $391,900 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $252,000 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $57k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $83k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$6.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MDRC$82,900
Dolores Huerta Foundation$15,000
BLU Educational Foundation$15,000
Go Public Schools$15,000
Parent Institute Quality Educ$12,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Cthlic Chart Diocese Ft Worth: $35k → 11%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.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
MI
NY
IN
PA
CA
DC
GA
TX

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

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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The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
2
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
3
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
4
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
Roosevelt University

Roosevelt university is an independent, non-profit, metropolitan university and national leader in educating socially conscious citizens for active and dedicated lives as leaders in their professions and their communities. the university's…

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University of Chicago

The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.

Education
8
Arcadia University

Arcadia university's pioneering, global, integrated, liberal arts, and professional learning experience cultivates leaders who are intellectually fearless and uniquely prepared for life and work. our highly regarded, values-based learning…

Education
9
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
10
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
11
Loyola University

Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…

Education
12
La Roche University

La roche university advances learning informed by ethical and service-oriented values, reflecting its catholic heritage and the charism of the sisters of divine providence.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Parent Institute for Quality Education Inc and the most unlike its peers is University of Notre Dame du Lac. 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

16 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. 16 of the 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
14/16
Grantees still filing
8/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MDRC — $202,900 · EmploymentMDRCPROJECT QUEST INC — $10,000 · EmploymentGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $80,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $25,000 · EducationTemple University - Of The C…University of Notre Dame du Lac — $15,000 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du …GO Public Schools — $15,000 · EducationGO Public SchoolsONE MILLION DEGREES — $15,000 · EducationONE MILLION DEGREESBLU Educational Foundation — $15,000 · EducationBLU Educational FoundationINSIDE TRACK INC — $50,000 · OtherINSIDE TRACK…PARENT INSTITUTE FOR QUALITY EDUCATION INC — $12,000 · OtherPARENT INSTI…GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · OtherGEORGIA STAT…THE URBAN INSTITUTE — $65,367 · Social ScienceTHE URBAN I…Opportunity America Inc — $25,000 · Community ImprovementOpportunit…DETROIT REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · Community ImprovementDETROIT RE…DOLORES C HUERTA FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Community ImprovementDOLORES C …HOUSING AND ECONOMIC RIGHTS ADVOCATES — $50,000 · Civil RightsCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH — $35,000 · Human Services
Employment$212,900Education$165,000Other$72,000Social Science$65,367Community Improvement$60,000Civil Rights$50,000Human Services$35,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMDRC — $202,900 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $80,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE URBAN INSTITUTE — $65,367 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINSIDE TRACK INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOUSING AND ECONOMIC RIGHTS ADVOCATES — $50,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH — $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOpportunity America Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 54% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGO Public Schools — $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDOLORES C HUERTA FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetONE MILLION DEGREES — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBLU Educational Foundation — $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPARENT INSTITUTE FOR QUALITY EDUCATION INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT QUEST INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

The James Irvine Foun…Silicon Valley Commun…Gates FoundationThe California Endowm…California Community …Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The James Irvine FoundationCA15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The James Irvine Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gates Foundation · The California Endowment · California Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 The Institute for College Access & Success 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 17 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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