Washington · Nonprofit
College Success Foundation
College Success Foundation (Washington) receives grants from 157 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,284,614 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,275,161). 108 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $28M
- Funders on record
- 157
- Grants received
- $17M
- Net assets
- $19M
What College Success Foundation does
Mission
We provide a unique integrated system of supports and scholarships to inspire underserved, low-income students to finish high school, graduate from college and succeed in life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Scholarships and College Programs: CSF seeks to reduce financial barriers low-income students face by awarding scholarships and providing student support throughout college. Through June 30, 2025, CSF has awarded 20,647 scholarships to 20,029 students, totaling more than $257 million. To date, 14,299 graduates have received a degree. CSF designs and markets scholarship application materials, develops selection processes, and creates scoring rubrics that consider variables required by the funder and includes traditional and non-traditional selection criteria. CSF tracks its scholarship awards and scholars through a student data management system, while responding to individual scholars financial situations and needs.
$11,191,135 spent$10,701,672 earned by the program51% of program spendingCollege Readiness Programs: CSF provides career and college awareness and support from 9th grade through high school graduation. CSF also works with the Washington Student Achievement Council (WSAC), school districts, and other college access providers to ensure low-income 7th and 8th graders are aware of Washington States College Bound Scholarship. Our staff is school-based and work in close collaboration with teachers and guidance counselors. CSF offers workshops on the financial aid process, academic planning, college admissions process, and social networking skills.
$10,826,346 spentof which $5,962,846 as grants$12,560,046 earned by the program49% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $22,017,481.
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 2022 to 2023, from $21M to $30M (+43%).
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 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
45% of College Success Foundation’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
George Bridges
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 47 funders to 62 funders, grant income rose $1.3M → $2.1M.
29 of 157 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $10k from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Seattle Children's Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money College Success Foundation raised.
From the IRS filings of College Success Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 157 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 Success Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 7% of grant income, and it takes 14 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 14 funders to its left
59% 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 Success Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 10% · 2019 29% · 2020 16% · 2021 7% · 2022 7% · 2023 16% — 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
49% of College Success Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
79% of College Success Foundation's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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 Success Foundation holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters 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 Success Foundation receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $263k on record.
- Department of Education$263k
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 Success Foundation
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
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
60%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- College Success Foundation - District of · exempt
- Mentor Washington · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for College Success Foundation: 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 Success Foundation?
- College Success Foundation (Washington) receives grants from 157 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,284,614 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,275,161). 108 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does College Success Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 157 organizations giving $17,284,614 in grants to College Success Foundation, 108 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of College Success Foundation?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,275,161 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like College Success Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 157 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