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Bryn Mawr College

Provide a rigorous education and encourage pursuit of knowledge as preparation for life and work.

$57M
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$917k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$25MScience & Tech$341kPublic Benefit$263kHealth$14k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $1,036,414, the rows itemized in this filing. The $57,394,723 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $56,358,309 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $119k
  • $250k+1 grant · $917k
$13,745
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.7B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION$917,463
FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY SERVICES$37,500
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION$32,405
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO$13,745
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY$13,088
COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA$11,600
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$10,613
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Wellesley College: $14k → 7%BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $13k → 8%Mount Holyoke College: $5k → 12%Saint Olaf College: $27k → 11%Foundation for Community Services: $38k → 10%Lafayette College: $9k → 11%Allegheny College: $15k → 14%COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA: $12k → 22%Vassar College: $78k → 9%Barnard College: $16k → 17%SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $60k → 14%Grinnell College: $6k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $14k → 12%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $11k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM: $6k → 15%Wellesley College: $10k → 7%Smith College: $6k → 12%Saint Olaf College: $23k → 11%FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $38k → 10%Lafayette College: $6k → 11%Community College of Philadelphia: $6k → 22%Vassar College: $40k → 9%SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $52k → 14%FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE: $38k → 10%Public Health Management Corp: $14k → 22%SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $43k → 14%Foundation for Community Service: $38k → 10%Temple University: $8k → 22%SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $32k → 14%FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $38k → 10%Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars: $20k → 14%FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $38k → 10%AMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNT'L EDUC: $4.6M → 14%Foundation for Community Services: $38k → 10%American Councils for International Education ACTR Accels: $4.6M → 14%FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $38k → 10%ACTR ACCELS: $4.6M → 14%FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $38k → 10%American Councils for International Education ACTR: $4.1M → 14%AMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION: $2.3M → 14%AMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION: $1.8M → 14%AMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION: $1.3M → 14%AMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION: $917k → 14%AMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION: $830k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MN
NY
MA
IA
PA
CA
CO
MD
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$26M · 11 repeat orgs$126k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
9

Total granted

$26M
$101k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+24%

Still filing today

64%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationSocial ScienceInternationalArts & CultureHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • AC
    AMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION ACTR ACCELS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $12M · revenue +45%
  • SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $187k · revenue +3%
  • VC
    VASSAR COLLEGE
    2× · 2018–2019 · $118k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • WW
    WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +24%
  • BARNARD COLLEGE
    one grant, 2018 · $16k · revenue +16%
  • AC
    ALLEGHENY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +3%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
2
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
3
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
4
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
5
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
6
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
7
Hillsdale College

Hillsdale college is a private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 students. founded in 1844, the college remains, in the words of its articles of association, "grateful to god for the inestimable blessings resulting from the…

Education
8
Wesleyan University

Wesleyan university is dedicated to providing an education in liberal arts by building a diverse, energetic community of students, faculty, and staff who value independence of mind and generosity of spirit. see additional description in…

Education
9
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
10
Elizabethtown College

Provide a transformative educational experience that cultivates strengths of its students.

Education
11
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
12
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Barnard College; the most unlike its peers is Foundation for Community Service. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 24 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
14/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

American Councils for International Education ACTR Accels: $13,273,250 · OtherAmerican Councils for International Education ACTR Accels+7 more: $531,301 · OtherAMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION ACTR ACCELS INC: $11,776,315 · InternationalAMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION ACTR …Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $82,923 · EducationWellesley College: $23,953 · EducationCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $17,541 · EducationBARNARD COLLEGE: $15,704 · EducationLAFAYETTE COLLEGE: $15,310 · EducationALLEGHENY COLLEGE: $14,885 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $14,673 · EducationBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $13,088 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $10,613 · Education+3 more: $17,597 · EducationSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $187,281 · Arts & CultureWOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS: $20,000 · Social SciencePublic Health Management Corporation: $13,912 · Health
Other$13,804,551International$11,776,315Education$226,287Arts & Culture$187,281Social Science$20,000Health$13,912

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION ACTR ACCELS INC: $11,776,315 over 6y, 6.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE: $262,500 over 7y, 33% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $187,281 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE: $118,060 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $82,923 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWellesley College: $23,953 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $17,541 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE: $15,704 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAFAYETTE COLLEGE: $15,310 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALLEGHENY COLLEGE: $14,885 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $14,673 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPublic Health Management Corporation: $13,912 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $13,088 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $10,613 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF GRINNELL COLLEGE: $6,356 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $6,218 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $5,023 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bryn Mawr College funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bryn Mawr College. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
  • Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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