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EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE

EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE (New Jersey) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,214,667 to it, the largest being CARNEGIE CORPORATION OF NEW YORK ($2,624,110). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$792M
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$5.2M
Net assets
$1.3B
7/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Educational Testing Service does

Mission

Educational Testing Service (ets) was incorporated in 1947 by the board of regents for the education department of the state of new york as an educational organization to engage in research, services and other activities in the field of educational testing. Mission our mission is to help advance quality and equity in education by providing fair and valid assessments, research and related services. Our products and services measure knowledge and skills, promote learning and performance, and support education and professional development for all people worldwide. Vision to be the leading organization in the world at providing the best possible assessment and learning products and services that help improve lives at every stage of the journey to what is possible.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Assessment research, development, and scoring Educational Testing Service ("ets") conducts research on statistical and psychometric methodology to advance the science of educational measurement and ensure the technical quality and fairness of ets's assessments and assessment related services. Through its policy evaluation and research center, ets also conducts research and analyses that address challenging educational policy issues. In conjunction with its research, ets develops educational assessments for use by states in k-12 assessment, for college admissions and the transition from high school to college, for graduate and business school admissions, and for use in measuring knowledge and skills, promoting learning and performance, and supporting education and professional development. Ets has developed more than 200 assessment programs including but not limited to the praxis series, test of english as a foreign language (toefl), graduate record examination (gre), test of english for international communication (toeic), and state specific and pre-college assessments.in conjunction with its research, ets continues working collaboratively with the national center for education…

    $570,045,082 spentof which $464,444 as grants$571,218,455 earned by the program
    90% of program spending

  2. Assessment administration & delivery the group administers tens of millions of assessments annually in thousands of locations worldwide. Ets does not own or operate any test centers; instead ets engages independent 3rd party service providers to administer and deliver assessments around the world.

    $66,016,778 spent$88,310,245 earned by the program
    10% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $636,061,860.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.4B) Expenses 100 ($1.3B) Net assets 100 ($811M)2018 Revenue 151 ($2.1B) Expenses 99 ($1.3B) Net assets 188 ($1.5B)2019 Revenue 92 ($1.3B) Expenses 96 ($1.3B) Net assets 184 ($1.5B)2020 Revenue 73 ($1.0B) Expenses 82 ($1.1B) Net assets 174 ($1.4B)2021 Revenue 81 ($1.1B) Expenses 82 ($1.1B) Net assets 207 ($1.7B)2022 Revenue 79 ($1.1B) Expenses 83 ($1.1B) Net assets 185 ($1.5B)2023 Revenue 75 ($1.1B) Expenses 80 ($1.1B) Net assets 184 ($1.5B)2024 Revenue 78 ($1.1B) Expenses 80 ($1.1B) Net assets 174 ($1.4B)2025 Revenue 56 ($792M) Expenses 56 ($756M) Net assets 165 ($1.3B)
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Revenue (56)Expenses (56)Net assets (165)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $1.3B to $2.0B (+54%).

$1.3B
$2.0B
$2.0B
$1.9B
$2.0B
$1.8B
$1.8B
$1.7B
$1.6B
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 0% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

1% of EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (14% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 731 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$67M
’17
$798M
’18
$12M
’19
−$70M
’20
$48M
’21
$5.1M
’22
−$9.7M
’23
$22M
’24
$36M
’25
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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.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2022 and FY2023, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.

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Listed565859615250474939
Joined·+4+9+61+35+33+13+19+11
No longer listed·28594435161721
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2022: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $720k → $743k.

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2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE’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

EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

50%
largest funder
86%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 100% · 2019 35% · 2020 57% · 2021 63% · 2022 96% — growing more concentrated.

“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

29% of EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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 FY2022, 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

EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 7 states in all.

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IL
MI
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MA
CA
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $90k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin4% · below the median
Months of reserve1.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−7% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 679 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025

Government funding EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $648.2M on record — $596.3M federal, $51.9M state.

Federal$596.3M
grants $50.7Mcontracts $545.6M
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  • Department of Education$576.5M
  • National Science Foundation$14.7M
  • Department of Defense$5.0M
  • Department of State$80k
State$51.9M
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By state
  • NJ$51.4M
  • CT$175k
  • MA$114k
  • OK$69k
  • DE$42k
  • FL$22k

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 EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE

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 Jersey

Institute for Student Achievement Foundation80%The Enrollment Management Association78%The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology75%Trenton Stem-To-Civics Charter School74%Eastern Christian School Association74%Association for the Advancement of International Education Inc73%Health Research & Educational Trust of New Jersey73%International Charter School of Trenton73%

Nationally

Educational Records Bureau Inc80%Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology80%Institute for Student Achievement Foundation80%Tntp Inc79%Education Commission of the States78%The Enrollment Management Association78%Expanded Schools Inc77%Relay Graduate School of Education77%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 16%Fundraising 0%

Governance

16
board members
94%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

67%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 6 states

NY
OR
IN
NJ
CA
DE

Part of a family of 27 related entities

  • Institute for Student Achievement Foundation · exempt
  • Mastery Transcript Consortium · exempt
  • Educational Testing Service (Ets) Global Bv · corp_trust
  • Pipplet Sas · corp_trust
  • Ets Educational Testing Service Canada Inc · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE?
EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE (New Jersey) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,214,667 to it, the largest being CARNEGIE CORPORATION OF NEW YORK ($2,624,110). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $5,214,667 in grants to EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE?
CARNEGIE CORPORATION OF NEW YORK is the largest funder on record, with $2,624,110 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 10 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