Minnesota · Nonprofit
COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC
COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 335 organizations whose IRS filings report $106,881,142 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($17,100,000). 210 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $35M
- Funders on record
- 335
- Grants received
- $107M
- Net assets
- $22M
What College Possible Inc does
Mission
College possible is a 501(c)(3) non-profit tax-exempt organization making college admission and success possible for students from low-income backgrounds through an intensive curriculum of coaching and support.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
As of june 30, 2025, college possible ended its programming in philadelphia.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Flagship: see schedule o.
$19,075,112 spentof which $727,560 as grants$810,833 earned by the program74% of program spendingCatalyze: see schedule o.
$1,416,918 spent$749,500 earned by the program6% of program spendingCo-pilot: see schedule o.
$1,147,535 spent$1,198,079 earned by the program4% of program spendingNational office supports the entire operation.
$4,019,836 spent$7,875 earned by the program16% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $25,659,401.
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 2019 to 2020, from $13M to $23M (+74%).
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: 2017 24% · 2018 22% · 2019 22% · 2020 22% · 2021 25% · 2022 23% · 2023 23% · 2024 30% · 2025 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Al Fan
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 60 funders to 138 funders, grant income rose $6.0M → $11M.
45 of 335 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 POSSIBLE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 335 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 POSSIBLE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
65% 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 POSSIBLE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 31% · 2019 53% · 2020 31% · 2021 17% · 2022 16% · 2023 19% — 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
53% of COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 29 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $32M arriving through sponsors registered in 22 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 POSSIBLE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $19.3M on record — $13.6M federal, $5.7M state.
- Corporation for National and Community Service$13.1M
- Department of Education$500k
- OTHER DISTRIBUTIONS TO SUBRECIPIENTS$3.6M
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$1.1M
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$919k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like COLLEGE POSSIBLE 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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 12 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COLLEGE POSSIBLE 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 POSSIBLE INC?
- COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 335 organizations whose IRS filings report $106,881,142 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($17,100,000). 210 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC have?
- IRS filings report 335 organizations giving $106,881,142 in grants to COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC, 210 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC?
- GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $17,100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 335 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