Colorado · Nonprofit
National Council for State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements
National Council for State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $12,000 to it, the largest being STEWARDSHIP OF LIFE INSTITUTE ($12,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.4M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $12k
- Net assets
- $13M
What National Council for State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements does
Mission
National Council for State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements (NC-SARA) is committed to supporting the establishment of an effective and efficient state-level reciprocity process that will allow students across the country to enjoy increased access to higher education opportunities and will reflect the core aims of efficiently ensuring quality programs and consumer protection in a rapidly changing education landscape.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
NC-SARA is working to achieve its mission by doing the following: A. Promoting and advancing efforts to ensure inter-regional alignment on core elements and requirements of State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements (SARA), while also maintaining a limited role within the overall governance of SARA;B. Representing the full spectrum of stakeholders in the higher education community, including all institutional sectors (including, but not limited to, large and small-scale distance education providers), regional and national accreditation agencies, and state officials including state regulators and state higher education executive officers.C. Building public awareness of and support for SARA through regular communications to the field;D. Serving as a forum for the higher education community at large to address concerns and questions as they arise.
$5,805,326 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,805,326.
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 2018 to 2019, from $6.9M to $9.6M (+40%).
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.
0% of National Council for State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% 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
Rob Anderson
Chairman
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 National Council for State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements’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.
Where its funders are
National Council for State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 1 state in all.
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
National Council for State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like National Council for State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 4 related entities
- Western Interstate Commission for HEduc · exempt
- Midwestern Higher Ed Compact · exempt
- New England Board of Higher Ed · exempt
- Southern Regional Educ Board · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for National Council for State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements: 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 National Council for State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements?
- National Council for State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $12,000 to it, the largest being STEWARDSHIP OF LIFE INSTITUTE ($12,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does National Council for State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $12,000 in grants to National Council for State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements.
- Who is the largest funder of National Council for State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements?
- STEWARDSHIP OF LIFE INSTITUTE is the largest funder on record, with $12,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like National Council for State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 1 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