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COLLEGE AIM INC

COLLEGE AIM INC (Georgia) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,625,391 to it, the largest being THE MARCUS FOUNDATION INC ($500,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.5M
Funders on record
29
Grants received
$2.6M
Net assets
$495k
16/29 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 82%
01What it does

What College Aim Inc does

Mission

To provide expert coaching from ninth grade through college graduation, and work to dismantle systemic racial and economic barriers, so that greater atlanta students are able to achieve their ambitions.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. College success; providing individualized support to college students through college graduation.

    $776,313 spent$136,054 earned by the program
    55% of program spending
  2. College access; a partnering with public high schools to help students find the right postsecondary fit and enroll at technical two-year and four-year colleges.

    $613,218 spent
    43% of program spending
  3. Advocacy; a calling on federal and georgia legislators, college counselors and others to make structural changes so the paths to and through college are more equitable for our students and so many others.

    $21,712 spent
    2% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,411,243.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($293k) Expenses 100 ($263k) Net assets 100 ($177k)2022 Revenue 182 ($533k) Expenses 168 ($443k) Net assets 151 ($268k)2023 Revenue 268 ($785k) Expenses 273 ($718k) Net assets 189 ($335k)2024 Revenue 349 ($1.0M) Expenses 377 ($994k) Net assets 281 ($497k)2025 Revenue 517 ($1.5M) Expenses 653 ($1.7M) Net assets 279 ($495k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (517)Expenses (653)Net assets (279)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 2021 to 2022, from $177k to $437k (+147%).

$177k
$437k
$335k
$512k
$513k
20212022202320242025
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 0% · 2023 10% · 2024 11% · 2025 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

91% of COLLEGE AIM INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,360 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$30k
’21
$90k
’22
$67k
’23
$30k
’24
−$203k
’25
3.3
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

Sam Aleinikoff

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20212022202320242025
Listed811141415
Joined·+3+4+0+3
No longer listed·0102
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $38k → $445k.

6 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 COLLEGE AIM INC’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

COLLEGE AIM INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

29% 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 COLLEGE AIM INC.

19%
largest funder
48%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 87% · 2019 41% · 2020 70% · 2021 42% · 2022 24% · 2023 22% — 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.

How long its funders stay

63% of COLLEGE AIM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

60% of COLLEGE AIM INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.

MN
MO
DE
NC
DC
AL
GA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Georgia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $392k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

COLLEGE AIM INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−13% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)51% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like COLLEGE AIM INC

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 Georgia

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 17%Fundraising 1%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

GA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COLLEGE AIM INC: 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 COLLEGE AIM INC?
COLLEGE AIM INC (Georgia) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,625,391 to it, the largest being THE MARCUS FOUNDATION INC ($500,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COLLEGE AIM INC have?
IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $2,625,391 in grants to COLLEGE AIM INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COLLEGE AIM INC?
THE MARCUS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COLLEGE AIM INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 29 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing