Massachusetts · Nonprofit
AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES
AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES (Massachusetts) receives grants from 348 organizations whose IRS filings report $142,090,165 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($19,397,007). 219 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $776M
- Funders on record
- 348
- Grants received
- $142M
- Net assets
- $5.3B
What Amherst College Trustees does
Mission
Amherst college educates students of exceptional potential from all backgrounds so that they may seek value and advance knowledge, engage the world around them, and lead principled lives of consequence. Amherst brings together the most promising students, whatever their financial need, in order to promote diversity of experience and ideas within a purposefully small residential community. Working with faculty, staff and administrators dedicated to intellectual freedom and the highest standards of instruction in the liberal arts, amherst undergraduates assume substantial responsibility for undertaking inquiry and for shaping their education within and beyond the curriculum. Amherst college is committed to learning through close colloquy and to expanding the realm of knowledge through scholarly research and artistic creation at the highest level. Its graduates link learning with leadership - in service to the college, to their communities, and to the world beyond.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Higher education: undergraduate educationamherst college is an undergraduate institution with an approximate student enrollment of 2,000.
$318,531,120 spentof which $85,552,813 as grants$178,565,377 earned by the program91% of program spendingThe folger shakespeare library is home to a shakespeare collection, a center for scholarly research, a venue for performances, readings, and exhibitions, and a leader in humanities education.
$31,623,985 spentof which $1,508,823 as grants$3,619,882 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $350,155,105.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2020 to 2021, from $4.3B to $5.8B (+37%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 1% · 2022 1% · 2023 3% · 2024 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
7% of AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
Chantal Kordula
Trustee - chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 99 funders to 165 funders, grant income rose $15M → $15M.
69 of 348 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 348 funders by total. 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
AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
65% 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 AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 19% · 2019 15% · 2020 19% · 2021 24% · 2022 19% · 2023 16% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
48% of AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
63% of AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $52M that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 34 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $90M arriving through sponsors registered in 24 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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
AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 684 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.0M on record.
- MA$7.0M
- DE$3k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
57%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 17 related entities
- Collegiate Catalyst Fund LLC · disregarded
- Amherst College Foundation Trust · exempt
- Ac Harry Elwin Harkness Class of 1898 · exempt
- Associated Kyoto Program Inc · exempt
- Woodside Children's Center · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES: 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 AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES?
- AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES (Massachusetts) receives grants from 348 organizations whose IRS filings report $142,090,165 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($19,397,007). 219 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES have?
- IRS filings report 348 organizations giving $142,090,165 in grants to AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES, 219 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $19,397,007 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 348 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing