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ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE COUNSELORS IN INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS

ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE COUNSELORS IN INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,000 to it, the largest being College Board ($6,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$712k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$6k
Net assets
$1.4M
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Association of College Counselors in Independent Schools does

Mission

The organization is an educational leader and professional community that empowers its members as they educate and support students, families, and institutions. Accis provides professional development, mentorship, and thought leadership.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Accis provides professional development, mentorship, and thought leadership.

    $588,725 spent$662,576 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $588,725.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($451k) Expenses 100 ($312k) Net assets 100 ($1.1M)2018 Revenue 100 ($451k) Expenses 119 ($370k) Net assets 109 ($1.1M)2019 Revenue 109 ($491k) Expenses 134 ($418k) Net assets 116 ($1.2M)2020 Revenue 58 ($261k) Expenses 109 ($341k) Net assets 107 ($1.1M)2021 Revenue 73 ($331k) Expenses 73 ($228k) Net assets 130 ($1.4M)2022 Revenue 98 ($443k) Expenses 141 ($438k) Net assets 115 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 123 ($557k) Expenses 178 ($554k) Net assets 119 ($1.3M)2024 Revenue 164 ($740k) Expenses 190 ($593k) Net assets 127 ($1.3M)2025 Revenue 158 ($712k) Expenses 232 ($723k) Net assets 132 ($1.4M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (158)Expenses (232)Net assets (132)Peer revenue range

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 $1.3M to $1.5M (+21%).

$1.3M
$1.3M
$1.4M
$1.3M
$1.5M
$1.4M
$1.5M
$1.5M
$1.6M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE COUNSELORS IN INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$140k
’17
$81k
’18
$73k
’19
−$79k
’20
$103k
’21
$5k
’22
$3k
’23
$148k
’24
−$10k
’25
4.8
months of
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.

Chief executive

Meredith Harward

Executive director

Board chair

Ashley Armato

Trustee, chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed111414141413161616
Joined·+7+2+3+3+4+6+5+3
No longer listed·42335353
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'19
total
College Boardunclassified
$6k
funders
1

From the IRS filings of ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE COUNSELORS IN INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS’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.

Where its funders are

ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE COUNSELORS IN INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.

NY

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE COUNSELORS IN INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS's revenue grew 58% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve4.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 19%Fundraising 0%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

95%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE COUNSELORS IN INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS?
ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE COUNSELORS IN INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,000 to it, the largest being College Board ($6,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE COUNSELORS IN INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $6,000 in grants to ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE COUNSELORS IN INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS.
Who is the largest funder of ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE COUNSELORS IN INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS?
College Board is the largest funder on record, with $6,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE COUNSELORS IN INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS 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 1 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