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The Partnership for College Completion

The Partnership for College Completion (PCC) champions policies, practices, and systems that increase college completion and eliminate degree completion disparities for low-income, first generation, and students of color in Illinois particularly Black and Latinx students.

$24k
Granted FY2022
2
Grants FY2022
2
Organizations funded FY2022
50%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$12,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$12,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 16
FY2021 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
1
Total assets, FY2022
$3.1M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 50% of the organizations The Partnership for College Completion funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20222$24k50%
FY202116$204kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2022.

Education$228k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
City Colleges of Chicago$36,0002n/a
Governors State University$12,0001n/a
National Louis University$12,00010%
Roosevelt University$12,00010%
Blackburn University$12,00010%

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($144k), not named here.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Marquette Bank Education FoundationIL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About The Partnership for College Completion

How much does The Partnership for College Completion give?
The Partnership for College Completion reported 2 grants totaling $24,000 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 16 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2022.
What does The Partnership for College Completion fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2022, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are The Partnership for College Completion's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2022: City Colleges of Chicago ($36k), Governors State University ($12k), National Louis University ($12k).
Does The Partnership for College Completion fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Partnership for College Completion?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marquette Bank Education Foundation.
Where is The Partnership for College Completion based?
The Partnership for College Completion is based in IL.

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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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