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| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | ACT Education Corp. | A public-benefit assessment company behind the ACT test, workforce credentials, research, and education products after its partnership with Nexus Capital. ACT scores below nonprofit testing peers because private-equity ownership now sits behind a high-stakes admissions and workforce assessment gate. | public-benefit college and workforce assessment company | Medium confidence (AI) | Policy-capture concerns; see Policy Capture. | Developed (AI) | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | -4 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -2 | -1 | -2 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Boys & Girls Clubs of America | A nonprofit youth-development federation supporting local clubs with after-school, summer, leadership, education, health, arts, and workforce programs. Boys & Girls Clubs scores well because it provides structured youth support and safe spaces, though federated quality variation and youth-institution power require caution. | nonprofit youth-development federation | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 6 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Bright Horizons | A public company providing employer-sponsored childcare, backup care, early education, and workforce education benefits. Bright Horizons provides useful care infrastructure for working parents, but employer-channel dependence, shareholder control, and expensive childcare economics keep it limited. | public employer-sponsored childcare and education company | High confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | -3 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | -1 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | CALPIRG Students | A California student public-interest group funded through student pledges and campus chapters at UC campuses. CALPIRG scores low because it gives students some organizing experience and public-interest campaigns, but recurring student-fee funding and professional network alignment create a coercive-adjacent youth pipeline. | student-funded public-interest advocacy organization | High confidence (AI) | Student PIRGs | Policy-capture concerns; see Policy Capture. | Developed (AI) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | -5 | -3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -3 | 0 | -2 | ||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Child Care Aware of America | A nonprofit that helps families find childcare resources and supports the childcare resource-and-referral field. Child Care Aware scores well because it lowers search friction in a high-stakes care market, though referral does not itself solve cost, labor, or supply constraints. | nonprofit childcare resource and referral organization | High confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 7 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | College Board | A nonprofit organization behind the SAT, AP, PSAT/NMSQT, CSS Profile, BigFuture, and related college-readiness tools. College Board scores low-middle because it has nonprofit mission value but also gatekeeper power, fees, high-stakes testing, student data, and near-mandatory admissions infrastructure. | nonprofit college-admissions and assessment organization | High confidence (AI) | Policy-capture concerns; see Policy Capture. | Developed (AI) | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | -4 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -2 | -2 | -2 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Common App | A nonprofit platform used by students to apply to more than a thousand colleges and universities through a shared application. Common App scores well because it reduces duplicate application labor and publishes access-oriented reports, though college admissions pressure and student-data centralization still limit it. | nonprofit college-application platform | High confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 6 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | -1 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | ETS | A nonprofit educational testing organization behind GRE, TOEFL, Praxis, TOEIC, HiSET, and other assessment programs. ETS scores above private testing firms because of nonprofit structure and research mission, but standardized-test gatekeeping, fees, and credential dependence keep it qualified. | nonprofit educational testing and assessment organization | High confidence (AI) | Policy-capture concerns; see Policy Capture. | Developed (AI) | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | 0 | -1 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Khan Academy | A nonprofit online education platform offering free lessons, practice, and learning tools across school subjects and test preparation. Khan Academy scores well because the model leaves more value with stakeholders and the institution is less hostile to people with weak bargaining power, and no current penalty outweighs that structure. | nonprofit education platform | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 7 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | KinderCare Learning Companies | A public early-childhood education and childcare company operating KinderCare centers and employer-sponsored care programs. KinderCare provides necessary childcare infrastructure, but investor ownership, high fees, labor pressure, and parent dependence keep it weak. | public early-childhood education and childcare company | High confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | -4 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | -1 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | National Student Clearinghouse | A nonprofit education-data organization providing enrollment, degree, loan-status, transcript, research, and verification services across U.S. education. National Student Clearinghouse scores in the middle because nonprofit status and efficiency are real goods, but students are still placed inside a centralized education-record infrastructure used by schools, lenders, employers, and agencies. | nonprofit education-data and verification organization | High confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -2 | -2 | -1 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Student PIRGs | A student organizing network with chapters and projects on campuses, training students on climate, public health, democracy, hunger, homelessness, and textbook affordability campaigns. It scores low because it does real public-interest work but also turns student idealism, fees, lists, and leadership development into a durable advocacy pipeline. | student public-interest organizing network | High confidence (AI) | The Public Interest Network | Policy-capture concerns; see Policy Capture. | Developed (AI) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | -4 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -3 | 0 | -2 | ||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | YMCA of the USA | A nonprofit national network supporting local Ys that provide childcare, camps, swim lessons, youth development, fitness, and community programs. YMCA scores well because it provides broad everyday services through nonprofit local institutions, though federated quality variation and fee-based programs keep it qualified. | nonprofit youth, childcare, fitness, and community-services network | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 6 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 |