Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
COLLEGE BOUND INC
COLLEGE BOUND INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,148,785 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BROWARD INC ($854,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 48
- Grants received
- $4.1M
- Net assets
- $630k
What College Bound Inc does
Mission
To prepare public and public charter school students in the metropolitan washington, d.c. Area to enter college, earn a degree, and achieve their personal and professional goals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
College bound accomplishes its mission by providing sustained tutoring, mentoring, and college preparatory enrichment activities to over 200 students in its weekly academic mentoring program and an additional 250 students through its outreach activities. College bound has a proven track record of success for students in terms of academic performance and entrance to institutions of higher education.college bound's multi-pronged approach to supporting students has been helping public school students make college a reality since 1991. Its academic mentoring program matches over 200 students in 8th- 12th grade with college-educated professionals who become their academic mentors. Pairs meet once a week for two hours during the school year at one of eight community-based sites. Mentor-student pairs also participate in monthly activities outside of the site to reinforce and strengthen the mentoring relationship. Through writing workshops, writing coaches help students develop the writing skills needed not only for college applications and financial scholarships but to communicate more effectively. Weekly journaling is also an integral part of the agenda for students and mentors at the…
$996,861 spentof which $215,613 as grants$120,334 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $996,861.
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 2018 to 2019, from $591k to $259k (−56%).
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: 2021 7% · 2022 7% · 2023 2% · 2025 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of COLLEGE BOUND INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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
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
Kenneth Ward
Executive director
Board chair
Michael Grant
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $169k → $790k.
12 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 BOUND INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 funders by total. 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 BOUND INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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
60% 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 BOUND INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 67% · 2019 26% · 2020 35% · 2021 54% · 2022 23% · 2023 28% — 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
39% of COLLEGE BOUND INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.
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
52% of COLLEGE BOUND INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2.0M that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 18 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
Against its field
COLLEGE BOUND INC is better cushioned than half of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like COLLEGE BOUND 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 Washington, D.C.
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
68%
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 COLLEGE BOUND 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 BOUND INC?
- COLLEGE BOUND INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,148,785 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BROWARD INC ($854,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COLLEGE BOUND INC have?
- IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $4,148,785 in grants to COLLEGE BOUND INC, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLLEGE BOUND INC?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BROWARD INC is the largest funder on record, with $854,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLLEGE BOUND INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 48 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