California · Nonprofit
COLLEGE TRACK
COLLEGE TRACK (California) receives grants from 253 organizations whose IRS filings report $176,033,924 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($90,376,657). 159 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $54M
- Funders on record
- 253
- Grants received
- $176M
- Net assets
- $87M
What College Track does
Mission
See schedule oCollege Track is a national college completion program that equips first-generation scholars to earn a bachelor's degree and build lives filled with opportunity, choice, purpose, and power. College Track partners with first generation students from under-resourced communities, walking with them from high school through college graduation. For nearly 30 years, our 10 year program has provided the academic, financial, and personal support scholars need to complete college and pursue meaningful careers. Today nearly 6,600 College Track scholars and alumni across 13 communities and almost 300 colleges are proving what's possible when talent meets opportunity. Together with our partners and supporters, we are expanding access to higher education and building a future where every scholar has the chance to create a life filled with choice, purpose, and power.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In fy25, College Track's program equipped 4,800 scholars to advance towards bachelor's degrees, and provided resources to a growing alumni network of 1,800 college graduates. Our class of 2025 high school seniors had an average gpa at graduation of 3.52, with 96% accepted into at least one four-year college and 96% matriculating to a two-year or four-year college. 86% college persistence rate for class of 2024. 51% of College Track scholars from the class of 2019 have graduated with a bachelor's degree within five years, more than 2.5 times the national average for first-generation college scholars.
$36,945,856 spentof which $789,739 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $36,945,856.
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 $64M to $94M (+45%).
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 2% · 2018 3% · 2019 2% · 2020 1% · 2021 7% · 2022 2% · 2023 2% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of COLLEGE TRACK’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Powell Jobs Laurene
Chair and co-founder
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 62 funders to 102 funders, grant income rose $13M → $31M.
43 of 253 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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 TRACK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 253 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 TRACK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
81% 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 TRACK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 70% · 2019 59% · 2020 51% · 2021 58% · 2022 51% · 2023 63% — broadly stable.
“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
43% of COLLEGE TRACK'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
75% of COLLEGE TRACK'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 $44M that is directly attributable, 66% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $132M 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 TRACK runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like COLLEGE TRACK
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 38 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COLLEGE TRACK: 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 TRACK?
- COLLEGE TRACK (California) receives grants from 253 organizations whose IRS filings report $176,033,924 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($90,376,657). 159 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COLLEGE TRACK have?
- IRS filings report 253 organizations giving $176,033,924 in grants to COLLEGE TRACK, 159 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLLEGE TRACK?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $90,376,657 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLLEGE TRACK 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 253 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