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Washington DC scholarship organizations

There are 822 scholarship and financial aid organizations in the greater Washington DC metro area, including the cities of Washington DC, Bethesda, Frederick, Gaithersburg, Rockville, Alexandria, Arlington, and Reston within the states of Maryland, District of Columbia, and Virginia. Combined, these Washington DC metro scholarship organizations employ 1,152 people, earn more than $688 million in revenue each year, and have assets of $3 billion.
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Job trends for Washington DC scholarship organizations

Employees per organizationNumber of organizations
0
 
164
1-10
 
37
11-25
 
4
26-100
 
12
101 to 1,000
 
2
1,000+
 
0
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Sizes of scholarship organizations in Washington DC

Revenues per organizationNumber of organizations
< $250k
 
212
$250k to $1M
 
53
$1M to $5M
 
38
$5M to $25M
 
12
$25M to $100M
 
5
$100M+
 
1
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Directory of scholarship organizations in Washington DC

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1-20 of 822

United Negro College Fund (UNCF)

UNCF is a scholarship or financial aid organization in Washington, DC whose mission is: UNCF IS BUILDING A PATHWAY OF EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT FROM K-12 THROUGH COLLEGE AND CAREER.
Revenue
$158.9m
Assets
$892.4m
Employees
360
EIN
13-1624241
IRS type
501(c)(3)

PeerForward

PeerForward empowers student leaders in low-income communities to guide their peers to college and careers, leveraging positive peer influence for lasting educational impact.
Revenue
$4.6m
Assets
$9.7m
Employees
36
EIN
52-2007028
IRS type
501(c)(3)

American Association of University Women (AAUW)

Aauw advances equity for Women and girls through advocacy, education, research, leadership and philanthropy. Aauw advances gender equity for Women and girls through research, education, and advocacy.
Revenue
$22.3m
Assets
$167.3m
Employees
53
EIN
52-6037388
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Asian and Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund (APIASF)

Our vision is to see that all Asian American and Pacific Islanders have access to higher education and resources that cultivate their academic, personal and professional success regardless of their ethnicity, national origin or financial means.
Revenue
$11.1m
Assets
$41.6m
Employees
37
EIN
57-1192973
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF)

The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation develops Black leaders, informs policy through research, educates the public, and advances racial equity via programs and scholarships.
Revenue
$25.9m
Assets
$27.3m
Employees
35
EIN
52-1160561
IRS type
501(c)(3)

CIA Officers Memorial Foundation

The CIA Officers Memorial Foundation provides financial assistance and scholarships to families of officers who died while on active duty.
Revenue
$7.9m
Assets
$67.7m
Employees
8
EIN
52-2360463
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation (MCSF)

The Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation provides need-based scholarships to Marines' and Navy corpsmen's children, funding post-high school education and advancing high graduation, low-debt outcomes.
Revenue
$39.4m
Assets
$194.1m
Employees
37
EIN
22-1905062
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Student Freedom Initiative

Student Freedom Initiative provides alternative funding for education costs to address student debt faced by those attending Minority Serving Institutions.
Revenue
$6.0m
Assets
$141.1m
Employees
25
EIN
85-0557522
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Cobell Board of Trustees

The Cobell Board of Trustees coordinates the distribution of scholarships for Native American and Alaskan Native students.
Revenue
$39.8m
Assets
$221.3m
Employees
0
EIN
47-1589441
IRS type
501(c)(3)

The National GEM Consortium (GEM)

The National GEM Consortium fosters advanced STEM education by recruiting graduate students and connecting their talents with technical needs of employer partners.
Revenue
$10.1m
Assets
$24.8m
Employees
12
EIN
31-0898802
IRS type
501(c)(3)

District of Columbia College Access Program (DC-CAP)

District of Columbia College Access Program connects students with financial support, mentorship, and universities to ensure successful college completion and career readiness.
Revenue
$43.9m
Assets
$87.3m
Employees
42
EIN
52-2132835
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF)

TMCF provides scholarships, leadership development, and advocacy to increase access and retention rates for students attending member schools.
Revenue
$88.3m
Assets
$143.3m
Employees
114
EIN
41-1750692
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Executive Leadership Council (ELC)

ELC's mission is to provide educational and economic opportunities, mentoring projects, and programs to identify, prepare and advance the next generation of black American managers and executives.
Revenue
$24.9m
Assets
$64.9m
Employees
54
EIN
52-1631358
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation

The mission of Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation is to provide college scholarships and educational counseling to military children who have lost a parent in the line of duty. Their vision is that every such child can have a college education.
Revenue
$21.2m
Assets
$22.1m
Employees
45
EIN
47-0902295
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Nrf Foundation

As the philanthropic arm of the National Retail Federation, the NRF Foundation builds the bridge between a growing industry with hundreds of thousands of open positions and job seekers around the country.
Revenue
$12.5m
Assets
$23.2m
Employees
0
EIN
52-1224690
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Moaa Charities (MOAA)

MOAA provides scholarships for military families, including interest-free loans and grants up to $12,000, and American Patriot grants up to $7,000.
Revenue
$12.7m
Assets
$185.1m
Employees
0
EIN
54-1659039
IRS type
501(c)(3)

National Medical Fellowships (NMF)

We are dedicated to increasing the number of underrepresented minority physicians and other professionals in the healthcare workforce in order to improve access to quality healthcare in medically under-served communities.
Revenue
$5.7m
Assets
$9.8m
Employees
28
EIN
01-0963657
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Serving Our Children

Serving Our Children provides income-based scholarships for DC students to attend private schools and administers the Hispanic Education Initiative Fund.
Revenue
$17.3m
Assets
$754.5k
Employees
9
EIN
20-8874570
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Institute for Responsible Citizenship

Prepares high-achieving minority men for responsible citizenship through academic seminars and internships. Located in Washington, DC.
Revenue
$2.5m
Assets
$3.8m
Employees
5
EIN
54-2034070
IRS type
501(c)(3)

CollegeTracks

Every student who graduates from Montgomery County Public Schools deserves the opportunity to go to college or technical school, regardless of his or her family income, race, or whether his or her relatives attended college.
Revenue
$2.6m
Assets
$546.2k
Employees
29
EIN
20-4499806
IRS type
501(c)(3)
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Methodology: Cause IQ mines all tax-exempt organizations that file a Form 990, Form 990-EZ, or Form 990-PF with the IRS. We collect and aggregate this information from OCR'd paper taxreturns, XML e-file taxreturns, IRS-provided extract, the Business Master File, and Cause IQ secret sauce for data cleaning, categorization, classification, analytics, etc.
This category corresponds to the "B82: Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.
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