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ACCREDITING COMMISSION FOR COMMUNITY AND JUNIOR COLLEGES WASC
ACCREDITING COMMISSION FOR COMMUNITY AND JUNIOR COLLEGES WASC (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $415,000 to it, the largest being COLLEGE FUTURES FOUNDATION ($405,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.9M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $415k
- Net assets
- $12M
What Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges Wasc does
Mission
Improving and validating the quality of post secondary education at public and private educational institutions, with a focus on community colleges, career and technical colleges, and junior colleges, through the creation and application of standards of accreditation and related policies, and through a process of review by higher education professionals and public members. Accjc's evaluation of institutions assures the educational community, the general public, and other organizations and agencies that an institution has clearly defined objectives appropriate to higher education; has established conditions under which the achievement can reasonably be expected; appears in fact to be accomplishing them substantially; is so organized, staffed, and supported that it can be expected to continue to do so; and demonstrates that is meets accjc's eligibility requirements and accreditation standards. Accjc encourages and supports institutional development and improvement through an institution.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Accrediting services.
$2,745,267 spent$3,738,094 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,745,267.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $6.5M to $8.3M (+29%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of ACCREDITING COMMISSION FOR COMMUNITY AND JUNIOR COLLEGES WASC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Kathleen Burke
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of ACCREDITING COMMISSION FOR COMMUNITY AND JUNIOR COLLEGES WASC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ACCREDITING COMMISSION FOR COMMUNITY AND JUNIOR COLLEGES WASC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
98% of ACCREDITING COMMISSION FOR COMMUNITY AND JUNIOR COLLEGES WASC's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ACCREDITING COMMISSION FOR COMMUNITY AND JUNIOR COLLEGES WASC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ACCREDITING COMMISSION FOR COMMUNITY AND JUNIOR COLLEGES WASC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ACCREDITING COMMISSION FOR COMMUNITY AND JUNIOR COLLEGES WASC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ACCREDITING COMMISSION FOR COMMUNITY AND JUNIOR COLLEGES WASC?
- ACCREDITING COMMISSION FOR COMMUNITY AND JUNIOR COLLEGES WASC (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $415,000 to it, the largest being COLLEGE FUTURES FOUNDATION ($405,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ACCREDITING COMMISSION FOR COMMUNITY AND JUNIOR COLLEGES WASC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $415,000 in grants to ACCREDITING COMMISSION FOR COMMUNITY AND JUNIOR COLLEGES WASC.
- Who is the largest funder of ACCREDITING COMMISSION FOR COMMUNITY AND JUNIOR COLLEGES WASC?
- COLLEGE FUTURES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $405,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACCREDITING COMMISSION FOR COMMUNITY AND JUNIOR COLLEGES WASC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing