West Virginia · Nonprofit
AMERITAS COLLEGE INC
AMERITAS COLLEGE INC (West Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $800,000 to it, the largest being CERTELL INC ($750,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $800k
- Net assets
- $733k
What Ameritas College Inc does
Mission
Ameritas college is a comprehensive, open-admission private institution located in huntington, wv, serving students globally. Ameritas college is committed to ensuring student learning, validating student outcomes, and promoting academic excellence as evidenced by graduate success in employment or lifelong learning.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Institution of higher learning educational services:in 2024, hjc was approved for the classical liberal arts program (cla) and the prison education program (pep). In 2025, hjc was rebranded as ameritas college, inc.
$1,990,134 spent$2,500,942 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,990,134.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.2M to $1.7M (+43%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
30% of AMERITAS COLLEGE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Dennis Trinkle
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of AMERITAS COLLEGE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AMERITAS COLLEGE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AMERITAS COLLEGE INC.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
94% of AMERITAS COLLEGE INC's grant income comes from West Virginia funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
AMERITAS COLLEGE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like AMERITAS COLLEGE INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In West Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
57% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Sensibleschool Holdings LLC · disregarded
- Certell Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERITAS COLLEGE INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERITAS COLLEGE INC?
- AMERITAS COLLEGE INC (West Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $800,000 to it, the largest being CERTELL INC ($750,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERITAS COLLEGE INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $800,000 in grants to AMERITAS COLLEGE INC.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERITAS COLLEGE INC?
- CERTELL INC is the largest funder on record, with $750,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERITAS COLLEGE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in West Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing