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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its 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, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$337kEmployment$213kCommunity Improvement$60kCrime & Legal$50k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $139,900, the rows itemized in this filing. The $391,900 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $252,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
Go Public Schools$15,000
BLU Educational Foundation$15,000
Dolores Huerta Foundation$15,000
Parent Institute Quality Educ$12,000
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.

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Its 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. Its 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
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

IL
MI
NY
IN
PA
CA
DC
GA
TX
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.

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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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7
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Parent Institute for Quality Education Inc; 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 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. 16 of the 17 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/16
Grantees still filing
8/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…BLU Educational Foundation: $15,000 · EducationBLU Educational FoundationONE MILLION DEGREES: $15,000 · EducationONE MILLION DEGREESUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $15,000 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du …GO Public Schools: $15,000 · EducationGO Public SchoolsINSIDE 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetBLU Educational Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetONE MILLION DEGREES: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDOLORES C HUERTA FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGO Public Schools: $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
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.

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.

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

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 The Institute for College Access & Success funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Institute for College Access & Success. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
    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 17 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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