Oregon · Nonprofit
Association for the Study of Higher Education
Association for the Study of Higher Education (Oregon) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $225,038 to it, the largest being Great Lakes Higher Education Guaranty Corp ($100,950). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Association for the Study of Higher Education's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Strada Education Foundation Incshared funders
- Visitor Development Fund Incportfolio match
- Foundation For Excellence in Higher Educationportfolio match
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.
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: 2020 0% · 2021 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
23% of Association for the Study of Higher Education’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. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $19k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Association for the Study of Higher Education’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
Association for the Study of Higher Education leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
49% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Association for the Study of Higher Education.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 74% · 2022 100% · 2023 52% — diversifying over time.
“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
Association for the Study of Higher Education draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $88 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 7 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Strada Education Foundation Incshared fundersIN · backs 115 organizations that share your funders
- Visitor Development Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation For Excellence in Higher Educationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tom Joyner Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Propel Educationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dr Maya Angelou Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Negro College Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Institute of Physics Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Thurgood Marshall College Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- College Boardportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Council on Educationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- McDonald Agape Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Association for the Study of Higher Education
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Association for the Study of Higher Education: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Association for the Study of Higher Education?
- Association for the Study of Higher Education (Oregon) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $225,038 to it, the largest being Great Lakes Higher Education Guaranty Corp ($100,950). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Association for the Study of Higher Education have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $225,038 in grants to Association for the Study of Higher Education, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Association for the Study of Higher Education?
- Great Lakes Higher Education Guaranty Corp is the largest funder on record, with $100,950 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Association for the Study of Higher Education find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 7funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing