New York · Nonprofit
COMMISSION ON INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
COMMISSION ON INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,000 to it, the largest being THE TEAGLE FOUNDATION ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $61k
- Net assets
- $7.1M
What Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities does
Mission
Membership association for independent college and university chief executives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The coordinating organization and public forum representing more than 100 member not-for-profit institutions of higher education in the independent sector. Liaison and representative of members to various state legislative committees and state agencies. Produce various publications and presentations promoting admission to independent colleges and universities.
$2,161,131 spent$2,344,249 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,161,131.
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 $7.2M to $8.0M (+10%).
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 9% · 2018 3% · 2019 3% · 2020 3% · 2021 10% · 2022 0% · 2023 1% · 2024 4% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
4% of COMMISSION ON INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% 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
Charles Seifert
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of COMMISSION ON INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES’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
COMMISSION ON INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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.
Where its funders are
82% of COMMISSION ON INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES's grant income comes from New York funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
COMMISSION ON INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like COMMISSION ON INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Council of Governing Boards · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMISSION ON INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES: 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 COMMISSION ON INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES?
- COMMISSION ON INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,000 to it, the largest being THE TEAGLE FOUNDATION ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMISSION ON INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $61,000 in grants to COMMISSION ON INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMISSION ON INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES?
- THE TEAGLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMISSION ON INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2 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