Virginia · Nonprofit
NATIONAL STUDENT CLEARINGHOUSE
NATIONAL STUDENT CLEARINGHOUSE (Virginia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,536,543 to it, the largest being STRADA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ($1,250,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $106M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $20M
What National Student Clearinghouse does
Mission
The mission of the National Student Clearinghouse is to serve the education and workforce communities and all learners with access to trusted data, related services, and insights.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Degree verification services - see schedule o degree verification services:participating post-secondary institutions have authorized the National Student Clearinghouse to maintain a comprehensive degree database, for the purpose of enhancing education information accuracy and eliminating fraud. As an agent of these institutions, the clearinghouse is authorized to provide limited access to the portions of this data that verify degree attainment for:1) other post-secondary institutions and higher education organizations so that they could comply with the u.s. Department of education-mandated performance reporting.2) employers so that institutions can support the transition of students and graduates to gainful employment.3) providers of benefits to graduates that is dependent on a graduate's status.
$21,030,295 spent$52,746,447 earned by the program30% of program spendingEducation data exchange services - see schedule oeducation data exchange services: on behalf of participating post-secondary institutions, National Student Clearinghouse provides a central authenticated data exchange platform among participating educational institutions to meet their collective need for the secure and confidential transfer and access to academic data. National Student Clearinghouse provides a transcript ordering platform, which is available to all participating institutions, which processed orders for over 6.8 million transcripts from the institution's students to: 1) other post-secondary institutions for consideration of student enrollment applications. 2) employers so that participating institutions can support the transition of students to gainful employment and preserve the integrity of the education system by eliminating fraud.3) admissions officers who have a signed student consent meeting the ferpa consent requirements to order transcripts for their institution's admitted students and applicants.
$20,899,880 spentof which $60,000 as grants$24,977,624 earned by the program30% of program spendingResearch services - see schedule oon behalf of participating post-secondary institutions, National Student Clearinghouse is authorized to maintain a database of the college enrollment and degree data for approximately 3,500 participating colleges and universities which enables administrators at high schools, colleges and universities, and other education organizations to access student data to perform educational research and analyses. Research services also performs analysis on these data based on customer-defined requirements to further the assessments made regarding the success of various academic programs at the local, state, and national levels; enable mandatory state and federal outcomes reporting; and facilitate improvement to the quality of the k-20 education system.enrollment verification services:the National Student Clearinghouse is authorized by participating post-secondary institutions to maintain a comprehensive enrollment database. As their agent, it provides limited access to verify student records to providers of benefits to students and graduates dependent on enrollment status. This helps to preserve the integrity of the education system by eliminating fraud. The…
$13,899,933 spent$16,778,155 earned by the program20% of program spendingEnrollment reporting services: the National Student Clearinghouse was established in 1993 to meet a specific need in the us education system. Since then, on behalf of participating post-secondary institutions enrolling 97% of the us student population, the National Student Clearinghouse has completed all required student loan enrollment verification activities. All related student verification records were reported to the us department of education, all state and non-profit guarantee agencies, and the student loan servicing organizations. This has resulted in a reduced administrative workload, more prompt and accurate reporting of deferments, improved service to students and financial aid providers, elimination of manual student loan-based verifications, greater enrollment reporting and record-keeping efficiency, and decreased loan delinquency and default rates.enrollment verification services:the National Student Clearinghouse is authorized by participating post-secondary institutions to maintain a comprehensive enrollment database. As their agent, it provides limited access to verify student records to providers of benefits to students and graduates dependent on enrollment…
$13,451,331 spent$9,414,808 earned by the program19% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $69,281,439.
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 2024 to 2025, from $98M to $71M (−28%).
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 STUDENT CLEARINGHOUSE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Dr Debra Chromy
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $217k → $10k.
1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 NATIONAL STUDENT CLEARINGHOUSE’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
NATIONAL STUDENT CLEARINGHOUSE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 NATIONAL STUDENT CLEARINGHOUSE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 46% · 2021 100% · 2022 66% · 2023 100% — 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
0% of NATIONAL STUDENT CLEARINGHOUSE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 13% 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
NATIONAL STUDENT CLEARINGHOUSE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
NATIONAL STUDENT CLEARINGHOUSE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 679 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 679 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding NATIONAL STUDENT CLEARINGHOUSE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $49.8M on record — $49.0M federal, $850k state.
- Department of Defense$39.9M
- Office of Personnel Management$5.9M
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.2M
- Department of State$353k
- Department of Education$299k
- Department of the Treasury$112k
- NJ$291k
- OR$272k
- VT$112k
- FL$89k
- DE$82k
- OK$5k
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 NATIONAL STUDENT CLEARINGHOUSE
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Natl Student Clearinghouse Research Ctr · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL STUDENT CLEARINGHOUSE: 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 STUDENT CLEARINGHOUSE?
- NATIONAL STUDENT CLEARINGHOUSE (Virginia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,536,543 to it, the largest being STRADA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ($1,250,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL STUDENT CLEARINGHOUSE have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,536,543 in grants to NATIONAL STUDENT CLEARINGHOUSE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL STUDENT CLEARINGHOUSE?
- STRADA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL STUDENT CLEARINGHOUSE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 8 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