In 1975, the maximum Pell Grant, targeted toward low-income students, covered roughly 84% of the cost of attending a public college or university. Today it only covers 36%. (The Education Trust)

ABOUT US

The Fulfillment Fund is a college access organization. Our students are 98% minority, and most come from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. In overcrowded and under-resourced Los Angeles schools they are often overlooked.

In Los Angeles, the graduation rate in some high schools is less than 45%. Yet our students defy the statistics by graduating from high school at twice the rate of their peers. Many are the first in their family to attend college.

The Fulfillment Fund has three main goals:
1) Help disadvantaged students graduate from high school;
2) Increase the number who go on to college; and
3) Help them successfully complete college and transition into the working world.

We offer two programs that together provide over ten years of critical support for these students, starting in the ninth grade and continuing through college.

High School Program - a four-year, classroom-based program in local schools. Students in need of additional attention also receive mentoring.

Post Secondary Program - providing college counseling services, financial aid, scholarships and much more.

Established in 1977, our mission is to help promising, yet educationally underserved and economically disadvantaged students achieve high school graduation and access to and completion of higher education through programs that also produce systemic change.