Form 990 for tax year 2024

Totals

Total revenue

$22,688,397

Total expenses

$20,785,219

Contributions and grants received

$13,332,980

Grants paid

$606,372

Program service revenue

$7,667,081

Investment income

$1,651,343

Other revenue

$36,993

Total assets, end of year

$46,294,483

Total liabilities, end of year

$5,686,026

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$40,608,457

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$13,729,847

Management and general expenses

$6,672,646

Fundraising expenses

$382,726

Program service expenses (Part III)

$13,729,847

Program services were 66.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2024

• I. NETWORK ENGAGEMENTS -SERVICESACHIEVING THE DREAM (ATD) IS A PARTNER AND CHAMPION OF MORE THAN 300 COMMUNITY COLLEGES ACROSS THE COUNTRY. DRAWING ON OUR EXPERT COACHES, GROUNDBREAKING PROGRAMS, AND NATIONAL PEER NETWORK, WE PROVIDE INSTITUTIONS WITH INTEGRATED, TAILORED SUPPORT FOR EVERY ASPECT OF THEIR WORK FROM FOUNDATIONAL CAPACITIES SUCH AS LEADERSHIP AND DATA TO INTENTIONAL STRATEGIES FOR SUPPORTING STUDENTS HOLISTICALLY, BUILDING K12 PARTNERSHIPS, AND MORE. WE CALL THIS WHOLE COLLEGE TRANSFORMATION. WE KNOW THAT WITH THE RIGHT PARTNER AND THE RIGHT APPROACH, COLLEGES CAN DRIVE ACCESS, COMPLETION RATES, AND EMPLOYMENT OUTCOMES SO THAT ALL STUDENTS CAN ACCESS LIFE-CHANGING LEARNING THAT PROPELS THEM INTO COMMUNITY-CHANGING CAREERS.THROUGH APPLICATION OF ATD'S COMMUNITY VIBRANCY FRAMEWORK, ATD SUPPORTS COLLEGES IN EXPANDING ACCESS TO HIGHER EDUCATION, CREATING GREATER SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC MOBILITY FOR MORE LEARNERS AND THEIR FAMILIES, AND HELPS COMMUNITIES FLOURISH ACROSS A BROAD RANGE OF MEASURES. WORK WITH COLLEGES EMPHASIZES A SET OF NEXT GENERATION METRICS PERTAINING TO ACCESS, EARLY MOMENTUM, MILESTONE MOMENTUM, MOBILITY, AND COMMUNITY VIBRANCY.A COLLEGE WILL TYPICALLY JOIN THE ATD NATIONAL NETWORK THROUGH A STRUCTURED 3-YEAR EXPERIENCE, FOUNDATIONS OF TRANSFORMATION, IN WHICH IT IS SUPPORTED BY COACHES TO EXAMINE INSTITUTIONAL DATA, ASSESS CORE INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITIES AND DEVELOP STRATEGIES TO REDESIGN POLICIES, PRACTICES AND STRUCTURES SO THAT ALL STUDENTS HAVE ACCESSIBLE AND RELEVANT ACADEMIC AND SOCIAL EXPERIENCES. THROUGHOUT THIS THREE-YEAR FOUNDATIONS OF TRANSFORMATION EXPERIENCE AND BEYOND, ATD SUPPORTS COLLEGES IN BUILDING THEIR CAPACITY TO CONDUCT CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT. IN FY25, ATD BROUGHT IN 15 NEW COLLEGES INTO THE NETWORK. COLLEGES WHO HAVE COMPLETED THEIR FIRST THREE YEARS MOVE TO ACCELERATE THEIR TRANSFORMATION BY SELECTING MORE TAILORED SUPPORTS IN SUBSEQUENT YEARS. COLLEGES CAN DELVE INTO HOLISTIC STUDENT SUPPORTS, K12 PARTNERSHIPS, OR TEACHING AND LEARNING SERVICES, WHICH COME WITH MORE IN-DEPTH ASSESSMENTS, COACHING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE. ATD ALSO CONTINUED ITS WORK, WITH SUPPORT FROM ASCENDIUM EDUCATION GROUP, COACHING 28 TRIBAL COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITIES. THESE INSTITUTIONS HAVE DEMONSTRATED SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS IN STRENGTHENING THEIR DATA CAPACITY AND USING EVIDENCE TO IMPROVE OUTCOMES. WITH CONTINUED SUPPORT FROM AN ANONYMOUS FUNDER, ATD HAS SUSTAINED AND DEEPENED ITS FOCUS ON HIGH-IMPACT PRACTICES BY CURATING HOLISTIC STUDENT SUPPORTS AND TEACHING & LEARNING SEMINARS TAILORED TO THE TRIBAL COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY CONTEXT. EVIDENCE-BASED INSTITUTIONAL TRANSFORMATION REQUIRES COLLEGES TO UNDERSTAND THEIR DATA. THROUGH A BILL & MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION POSTSECONDARY DATA PARTNERSHIP INITIATIVE, WE ARE SUPPORTING DOZENS OF ATD NETWORK COLLEGES' TRANSITION TO THE POST-SECONDARY DATA PARTNERSHIP, ALLOWING SCHOOLS TO CAPTURE MORE PRECISE DATA POINTS AND ACCESS DATA FROM ONE PORTAL. LEARNING EVENTS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR SERVE AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN FURTHERING THE TRANSFORMATIONAL WORK AT THE COLLEGES. THESE EVENTS INCLUDE OUR MARQUEE NETWORK-WIDE CONVENING, DREAM, WHERE MORE THAN 2300 COMMUNITY COLLEGE LEADERS, PRACTITIONERS, AND FUNDERS GATHERED IN PERSON IN PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA TO WORK TOGETHER AND LEARN BEST PRACTICES AND THE ANNUAL DATA & ANALYTICS SUMMIT, ATTENDED BY MORE THAN 400 PRACTITIONERS, FOCUSED ON IMPROVING STUDENT SUCCESS OUTCOMES BY BUILDING CAPACITY AND DEVELOPING A CULTURE OF INQUIRY ACROSS THE INSTITUTION. DREAM AND OTHER HIGHLY FOCUSED PEER-LEARNING EVENTS ALLOW ATD TO DEEPEN ITS CONNECTION TO NETWORK COLLEGES, SHOWCASE EFFECTIVE PRACTICES, AND DRAW IN NEW COLLEGES INTERESTED IN ENGAGING IN INSTITUTIONAL TRANSFORMATION.

  Expenses $8,657,659 · Grants $43,250 · Revenue $3,260,861

• II. NETWORK PROGRAMS OUR WORK IN THIS AREA FOCUSES ON THE IDEATION, DESIGN AND INCUBATION OF PROGRAMMATIC SUPPORTS FOR THE COLLEGES AND PARTNERS WE SERVE AS WELL AS STRENGTHENING ATD'S CAPACITY TO DO THIS WORK. ATD'S PRIORITIZING ADULT COMMUNITY COLLEGE ENROLLMENT INITIATIVE SUPPORTS 20 COMMUNITY COLLEGES ACROSS THE NATION SCALE PROMISING EFFORTS TO REENROLL ADULT LEARNERS IN COMMUNITY COLLEGES, WITH SUPPORT FROM THE LUMINA FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION. IN PARTNERSHIP WITH JFF, ATD ALSO SUPPORTED 9 COLLEGES AND 3 STATES TO GUIDE ADULT LEARNERS ON TO AND THROUGH PROGRAMS TO ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL MOBILITY. THE INITIATIVE, IMPROVING ECONOMIC OUTCOMES FOR ADULT LEARNERS, DEMONSTRATED THE SUCCESSFUL DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF INNOVATIVE STRATEGIES IN ADULT-LEARNER ONBOARDING, CAREER ADVISING, ACADEMIC AND NON-ACADEMIC SUPPORTS, SCHEDULING, PROGRAM DESIGN, AND ASSESSMENT OF PRIOR LEARNING.ATD'S K12 PARTNERSHIP WORK INCLUDES CONTINUED SUPPORT OF 24 GATEWAY TO COLLEGE PROGRAMS, WHICH REENGAGE OFF TRACK AND OUT OF SCHOOL YOUTH IN COLLEGE-BASED REENGAGEMENT PROGRAMS AND WORK WITH REGIONAL PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITIES TO INCREASE COLLABORATION AMONG COLLEGE EDUCATORS, WORKFORCE AND K-12 PARTNERS, AND COMMUNITY COLLEGE PROFESSIONALS SUPPORTED BY THE MICHAEL & SUSAN DELL FOUNDATION.ACHIEVING THE DREAM (ATD) IS SERVING AS ONE OF SIX STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS IN THE COLLEGE IN HIGH SCHOOL ALLIANCE'S (CHSA) NEXT PHASE STATE POLICY COHORT. SUPPORTED BY GRANTS FROM ECMC FOUNDATION, STRADA EDUCATION NETWORK, AND THE JOYCE FOUNDATION, THIS INITIATIVE IS HELPING SEVEN STATES DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT POLICY PLANS THAT WILL MAKE THEM NATIONAL LEADERS IN DUAL ENROLLMENT POLICY, AS PART OF THE NEXT PHASE OF DUAL ENROLLMENT POLICY COHORT. THE SCALING SHORTENED ACADEMIC TERMS INITIATIVE REPRESENTS A STRATEGIC INVESTMENT BY ASCENDIUM EDUCATION GROUP TO EXPAND REDESIGNING ACADEMIC TERMS THAT BETTER SERVES LOW-INCOME AND ADULT LEARNERS. ATD WILL GUIDE A COMPREHENSIVE 4-YEAR IMPLEMENTATION EFFORT THAT INCLUDES TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, FACULTY AND STAFF DEVELOPMENT, PEER LEARNING, AND DATA-INFORMED COACHING. ATD SUPPORTED A TENNESSEE-BASED COHORT TO INTEGRATE AI TOOLS INTO OER-ENHANCED INSTRUCTION, IMPROVING ENGAGEMENT AND INSTRUCTIONAL QUALITY. THROUGH A COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE, TARGETED SUPPORT, AND COMPREHENSIVE RESEARCH, THE PROPOSED INITIATIVE AIMS TO REFINE AND EXPAND EDUCATIONAL PRACTICES IN TENNESSEE AND ESTABLISH A SCALABLE MODEL FOR STATEWIDE TRANSFORMATION THROUGH OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES, OPEN EDUCATIONAL PRACTICES, AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.

  Expenses $5,072,188 · Grants $563,122 · Revenue $4,369,211

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

• AUSTIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT

  $120,000

  IMPLEMENTATION GRANTS

• DALLAS COLLEGE EASTFIELD CAMPUS

  $30,000

  IMPLEMENTATION GRANTS

• FORSYTH TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE

  $25,000

  IMPLEMENTATION GRANTS

• EVERETT COMMUNITY COLLEGE

  $25,000

  IMPLEMENTATION GRANTS

• NORTH CENTRAL STATE COLLEGE

  $25,000

  IMPLEMENTATION GRANTS

• TALLAHASSEE STATE COLLEGE

  $25,000

  IMPLEMENTATION GRANTS

• GRAYSON COLLEGE

  $25,000

  IMPLEMENTATION GRANTS

• CHATTANOOGA STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION

  $25,000

  AWARD

• SOUTHWESTERN OREGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE

  $25,000

  AWARD

• EL PASO COMMUNITY COLLEGE

  $15,000

  IMPLEMENTATION GRANTS

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2024

Filed

10 November 2025

IRS schema version

2024v5.2

Source object

202513149349303676

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