Funding search · EIN 411778617 · Minneapolis, MN

Educational Credit

Name: Educational Credit grants, 2022–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A grantmaking public charity (files IRS Form 990, Schedule I). Charities like this often run real grant programs with application cycles.

387
grants reported: $692.9M
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $40,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

fafsa student success food pantry emergency financial literacy

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Where the money goes

FAFSA completion campaigns run by state higher education agencies
National college access intermediaries and advising networks
General support transfer to affiliated ECMC Group Inc
Direct FAFSA help at HBCUs, MSIs, and community colleges
Local CBOs doing near-peer college advising in high schools
Financial literacy and emergency aid tools (Edquity, Project Success)

Typical grant

Median grant is $40,000 and half of everything falls between $17,250 and $98,667, so the working range for a new relationship is well under $100,000. The seven-figure checks go to national intermediaries and state agencies that can push FAFSA work across many campuses at once (Partnership for Education Advancement at $4.3M, NASFAA at $3.3M, Communities in Schools at $2.6M, NCAN at $1.7M, Thurgood Marshall College Fund at $1.5M), while individual colleges and city-level nonprofits get $100,000 to $250,000. With 387 grants to 330 recipients over three years, most relationships are one grant, not a renewing stream.

Their words

Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.

“FAFSA STUDENT SUPPORT”
“PROJECT SUCCESS”
“OUTREACH & FINANCIAL LITERACY”
“GENERAL SUPPORT”

Positioning adjacent work

Frame any proposal against FAFSA completion and verification, the label attached to nearly every 2024 grant.
Ask in the $50,000 to $150,000 band unless you can deliver multi-state or multi-campus reach.
Position as a subgrantee or evaluation partner to a state agency or national network they already fund.
Emphasize counted outcomes: forms filed, students reached, aid dollars unlocked, not research findings alone.

Worth knowing: The single largest line, $128.9M in general support to ECMC Group Inc, is a transfer to the affiliated parent organization, so the money actually available to outside grantees is a fraction of the $693M headline. The external giving in this window is overwhelmingly one themed push tied to the FAFSA simplification rollout, spread nationally across all 50 states and the territories rather than concentrated near Minneapolis, which means that theme could recede as the rollout ends.

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Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Ecmc Group3 grants · $642.0M
Partnership for Education Advancement1 grant · $4.3M
Nasfaa1 grant · $3.3M
Communities in Schools1 grant · $2.6M
National College Attainment Network1 grant · $1.7M
Edquity2 grants · $1.6M
Thurgood Marshall College Fund1 grant · $1.5M
Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation1 grant · $1.1M
The Get Schooled Foundation1 grant · $1.0M
Tennessee Student Assistance Corporation1 grant · $1.0M

Giving over time

$249.1M

2022

$266.9M

2023

$177.0M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 387 grants.

$265.1M
Ecmc Group · Minneapolis, MN · 2023
General support
$247.9M
Ecmc Group · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
General support
$128.9M
Ecmc Group · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
General support
$4.3M
Partnership for Education Advancement · New York, NY · 2024
Fafsa student support
$3.3M
Nasfaa · Washington, DC · 2024
Fafsa student support
$2.6M
Communities in Schools · Arlington, VA · 2024
Fafsa student support
$1.7M
National College Attainment Network · Washington, DC · 2024
Fafsa student support
$1.5M
Thurgood Marshall College Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
Fafsa student support
$1.1M
Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation · Round Rock, TX · 2024
Fafsa student support
$1.0M
Tennessee Student Assistance Corporation · Nashville, TN · 2024
Fafsa student support
$1.0M
The Get Schooled Foundation · Seattle, WA · 2024
Fafsa student support
$999,741
United Way Worldwide · Alexandria, VA · 2024
Fafsa student support
$931,118
College Possible · St Paul, MN · 2024
Fafsa student support
$914,258
Illinois Student Assistance Commission · Deerfield, IL · 2024
Fafsa student support
$787,213
Edquity · Brookyln, NY · 2024
Outreach & financial literacy, project success
$783,135
Edquity · Brookyln, NY · 2023
Project success emergency aid
$777,104
Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority · Frankfort, KY · 2024
Fafsa student support
$710,480
Arizona Board of Regents · Phoenix, AZ · 2024
Fafsa student support
$700,000
Young Invincibles · Washington, DC · 2024
Fafsa student support
$655,000
Admithub Pbc · Boston, MA · 2024
Fafsa student support
$611,523
University System of Maryland · Adelphi, MD · 2024
Fafsa student support
$537,280
Michigan College Access Network · Lansing, MI · 2024
Fafsa student support
$534,859
Communities Foundation of Texas · Dallas, TX · 2024
Fafsa student support
$506,652
Granite Edvance · Concord, NH · 2024
Fafsa student support
$500,000
National Summer Learning Association · Washington, DC · 2024
Fafsa student support
$500,000
West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission · Charleston, WV · 2024
Fafsa student support
$467,037
Suny Impact Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
Fafsa student support
$461,006
Montana University System (Mus) · Helena, MT · 2024
Fafsa student support
$417,910
The Ohio Department of Higher Education · Columbus, OH · 2024
Fafsa student support
$397,000
Uaspire · Boston, MA · 2024
Fafsa student support
$394,986
Miami Dade College · Miami, FL · 2024
Fafsa student support
$393,171
National College Advising Corps · Raleigh, NC · 2024
Fafsa student support
$357,602
Pennsylvania'S State System of Higher Education Foundation · Carlisle, PA · 2024
Fafsa student support
$352,296
Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency · Baltimore, MD · 2024
Fafsa student support
$348,071
Collegiate Edu-Nation · Roscoe, TX · 2024
Fafsa student support
$341,275
College Success Foundation · Bellevue, WA · 2024
Fafsa student support
$300,000
Council for Opportunity in Education · Washington, DC · 2024
Fafsa student support
$300,000
Unidosus · Washington, DC · 2024
Fafsa student support
$298,509
Riverside County Office of Education · Riverside, CA · 2024
Fafsa student support
$269,701
University of South Florida · Tampa, FL · 2024
Fafsa student support
$263,149
Alabama Possible · Birmingham, AL · 2024
Fafsa student support
$253,500
Community Partners · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Fafsa student support
$250,000
Rhode Island Student Loan Authority · Warwick, RI · 2024
Fafsa student support
$240,000
T3 Partnership · Fort Worth, TX · 2024
Fafsa student support
$237,730
Bureau of Iowa College Aid · Des Moines, IA · 2024
Fafsa student support
$235,134
Texas Christian University · Fort Worth, TX · 2024
Fafsa student support
$234,840
Growing Inland Achievement · Yucaipa, CA · 2024
Fafsa student support
$232,715
Vermont Student Assistance Corporation · Winooski, VT · 2024
Fafsa student support
$230,000
Broward Education Foundation · Fort Lauderdale, FL · 2024
Fafsa student support
$229,975
Chicago Public Schools · Chicago, IL · 2024
Fafsa student support
$213,949
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Fafsa student support
$212,690
New Mexico Educational Assistance Foundation · Albuquerque, NM · 2024
Fafsa student support
$203,537
Idaho State Board of Education · Boise, ID · 2024
Fafsa student support
$200,100
I Know I Can · Columbus, OH · 2024
Fafsa student support
$190,604
Denver Public Schools · Denver, CO · 2024
Fafsa student support
$188,372
Finance Authority of Maine (Fame) · Augusta, ME · 2024
Fafsa student support
$184,769
Montana State University Billings · Billings, MT · 2024
Fafsa student support
$182,580
Iowa College Access Network · Hiawatha, IA · 2024
Fafsa student support
$182,016
Fulfillment Fund · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Fafsa student support
$179,016
Woodward Hines Education Foundation · Jackson, MS · 2024
Fafsa student support
$175,000
Research Foundation of the City University of New York · New York, NY · 2024
Fafsa student support
$173,098
Cristo Rey Network · Chicago, IL · 2024
Fafsa student support
$169,444
American Samoa Community College · Pagopago, AS · 2024
Fafsa student support
$162,073
Achieve Atlanta · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Fafsa student support
$158,033
Higher Heights Youth Empowerment Programs · New Haven, CT · 2024
Fafsa student support
$150,000
Claflin University · Orangeburg, SC · 2024
Fafsa student support
$150,000
National Association of Higher Education System · Washington, DC · 2024
Fafsa student support
$150,000
South Carolina Afterschool Alliance · Columbia, SC · 2024
Fafsa student support
$147,931
Project Discovery of Virginia · Roanoke, VA · 2024
Fafsa student support
$145,990
Foundation for California Community Colleges · Sacramento, CA · 2024
Fafsa student support
$141,500
Huston-Tillotson University · Austin, TX · 2024
Fafsa student support
$137,438
University of Guam · Mangilao, GU · 2024
Fafsa student support
$137,316
Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area · Washington, DC · 2024
Fafsa student support
$132,500
Ufcs · Sugar Land, TX · 2024
Fafsa student support
$128,283
Lane College · Jackson, TN · 2024
Project success, fafsa student support
$127,309
College Aim · Decatur, GA · 2024
Fafsa student support
$125,000
The Scholarship Academy · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Fafsa student support
$124,262
State of Louisiana Southern University · Baton Rouge, LA · 2024
Fafsa student support
$121,104
University of California San Diego · La Jolla, CA · 2024
Fafsa student support
$120,000
North Carolina State Education Assistance Authority · Chapel Hill, NC · 2024
Fafsa student support
$120,000
Tennessee College Access & Success Network · Nashville, TN · 2024
Fafsa student support
$119,953
Edu-Futuro · Arlington, VA · 2024
Fafsa student support
$115,415
Minnesota Office of Higher Education · St Paul, MN · 2024
Fafsa student support
$115,000
12 Plus · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Fafsa student support
$115,000
College Track · Oakland, CA · 2024
Fafsa student support
$112,014
Pontifical Catholic Univ of Puerto Rico · 2024
Project success, fafsa student support
$110,884
State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations · Providence, RI · 2024
Fafsa student support
$110,471
Northern Virginia Community College · Alexandria, VA · 2024
Fafsa student support
$110,000
Benedict College · Columbia, SC · 2024
Fafsa student support
$110,000
Foundation for the Carolinas · Charlotte, NC · 2024
Fafsa student support
$109,169
Utah System of Higher Education · Salt Lake City, UT · 2024
Fafsa student support
$108,750
Take Stock in Children of Florida · Fort Lauderdale, FL · 2024
Fafsa student support
$107,181
Allan Hancock College · Maria, CA · 2024
Fafsa student support
$105,000
Invested · Indianapolis, IN · 2024
Fafsa student support
$105,000
Washington Student Achievement Council · Olympia, WA · 2024
Fafsa student support
$100,000
The Boston Educational Development Fund · Boston, MA · 2024
Fafsa student support
$98,832
Denver Scholarship Foundation · Denver, CO · 2024
Fafsa student support
$98,502
Achieve Twin Cities · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
Fafsa student support
$98,375
Education Is Freedom Foundation · Dallas, TX · 2024
Fafsa student support
$96,853
College and Career Access Center · Jackson, MI · 2024
Fafsa student support

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Source: IRS Form 990, Schedule I, as filed by this organization. These are grants already paid. Grants paid directly to individuals are reported to the IRS only as totals, so they do not appear as named lines here.