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COUNCIL OF GRADUATE SCHOOLS

EIN 52-2175852 WASHINGTON, DC

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Revenue 2024
$8,111,862
Expenses 2024
$8,184,288

Program services were 70.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B015
Classification
1200
Street
1 DUPONT CIR NW STE 230

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

Dedicated to the improvement and advancement of graduate education. As the largest national association organized specifically to represent the interests of graduate education, the Council offers many opportunities for deans and graduate school personnel to exchange ideas and share information on major issues in graduate education.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Dedicated to the improvement and advancement of graduate education.

  • Grants: The Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) uses grant funding to support a range of initiatives intended to advance graduate education such as those intended to promote graduate student success, advance financial education, leverage international experiences, promote diversity and inclusion, and better understand the impact of graduate education on the workforce.

    Expenses $4,459,533 · Grants $1,255,000 · Revenue $149,833

  • Meetings and Workshops:CGS holds an annual meeting in December where participants explore important and current issues in graduate education. The meeting also provides opportunities for graduate leaders to exchange ideas and information. Graduate deans, associate and assistant deans, faculty and staff from colleges and universities, association, federal and state agencies, and other education related administrators, graduate students, and others interested in graduate education are invited. Pre-meeting workshops and plenary sessions, concurrent sessions, annual awards ceremony, and the Lapidus luncheon lecture comprise the annual meeting. Exhibits also are available to meeting attendees. CGS conducts a summer workshop for graduate deans with a fresh focus on hot topics that affect every facet of graduate education. Complementing the workshop is the new deans institute, a program tailored to orient new deans and integrate the workshop experience. CGS invites graduate deans, associate and assistant deans, and other faculty and staff from colleges, universities and associations to network with their colleagues. The CGS Board of Directors, staff and other specialists serve as core faculty for the new deans' institute and summer workshop. The summer workshop program includes informative plenary sessions, dean dialogues and hot topic sessions along with many opportunities for networking and interactive discussions on the issues most pressing to the graduate education community.

    Expenses $847,404 · Revenue $1,035,063

  • Member Services: Leading effort to reach out to a growing number and different types of graduate schools for membership to provide relevant support and fulfill the needs of a dynamic and ever-changing membership.

    Expenses $471,175 · Revenue $2,893,373

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

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Susan Carvalho

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Chevelle Newsome

    Chair-elect

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Mary Farmer-Kaiser

    Past Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Lisa Boehm

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Jeni Hart

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Chris Nelson

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Michael Solomom

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Joshua Barker

    Affiliate Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Suzanne T Ortega

    President

    Total calculated
    $643,986
    From this org
    $579,509
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $64,477
    Hours/week
    35

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $564,509
    Bonus
    $15,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $41,325
    Nontaxable benefits
    $23,152
    Filer's total
    $643,986

  • Keith I Peregonov

    VP Finance, HR and Operations

    Total calculated
    $369,665
    From this org
    $272,595
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $97,070
    Hours/week
    35

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $264,025
    Bonus
    $8,570
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $31,632
    Nontaxable benefits
    $65,438
    Filer's total
    $369,665

  • Amy Scott

    Assoc. VP, Gov't Relations/Public Policy

    Total calculated
    $240,382
    From this org
    $199,877
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $40,505
    Hours/week
    35

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $193,752
    Bonus
    $6,125
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $23,213
    Nontaxable benefits
    $17,292
    Filer's total
    $240,382

  • Julia Kent

    VP, Best Practices and Strategic Initiatives

    Total calculated
    $263,632
    From this org
    $197,292
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $66,340
    Hours/week
    35

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $191,080
    Bonus
    $6,212
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $22,893
    Nontaxable benefits
    $43,447
    Filer's total
    $263,632

  • Adrienne Vincent

    Asst VP for Membership & Alliances

    Total calculated
    $165,109
    From this org
    $148,097
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,012
    Hours/week
    35

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $139,932
    Bonus
    $8,165
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $16,765
    Nontaxable benefits
    $247
    Filer's total
    $165,109

  • Janice Goggins

    Dir, Member Engagement, Recruitment & Retention

    Total calculated
    $187,610
    From this org
    $134,789
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $52,821
    Hours/week
    35

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $128,210
    Bonus
    $6,579
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $15,547
    Nontaxable benefits
    $37,274
    Filer's total
    $187,610

  • Heidi Shank

    Dir, Meetings & Member Services

    Total calculated
    $191,280
    From this org
    $134,432
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $56,848
    Hours/week
    35

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $127,960
    Bonus
    $6,472
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $15,331
    Nontaxable benefits
    $41,517
    Filer's total
    $191,280

  • Anna Naranjo

    Executive Assistant

    Total calculated
    $168,980
    From this org
    $131,236
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $37,744
    Hours/week
    35

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $123,636
    Bonus
    $7,600
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $14,796
    Nontaxable benefits
    $22,948
    Filer's total
    $168,980

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $8,111,862
    Expenses
    $8,184,288
    Contributions
    $3,188,488
    Grants paid
    $1,255,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,756,217
    Expenses
    $6,417,151
    Contributions
    $1,428,693
    Grants paid
    $160,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $6,749,858
    Expenses
    $5,511,331
    Contributions
    $2,651,863
    Grants paid
    $300,001

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,111,442
    Expenses
    $4,408,998
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,106,067

  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,356,151
    Expenses
    $4,317,549
    Assets (EOY)
    $15,477,083

  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,832,887
    Expenses
    $5,489,512
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,999,754

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,351,042
    Expenses
    $5,560,336
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,684,699

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,403,348
    Expenses
    $5,154,229
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,633,141

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.