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AUGUSTANA COLLEGE

AUGUSTANA COLLEGE (Illinois) receives grants from 145 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,874,310 to it, the largest being THE AUSTIN E KNOWLTON FOUNDATION INC ($10,330,928). 94 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$187M
Funders on record
145
Grants received
$37M
Net assets
$410M
94/145 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What Augustana College does

Mission

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service in a diverse & changing world.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Higher education: instruction - includes 73 academic majors, foreign study programs, honors programs, and other educational related departments servicing approximately 2,500 total students and staffed by approximately 300 faculty members.

    $114,694,043 spentof which $84,687,583 as grants$122,988,926 earned by the program
    74% of program spending
  2. Higher education: academic support - includes library support of 160,000 total volumes, audiovisual materials and equipment, art exhibits, jazz, theater, band, choir, intercollegiate athletics, and related activities servicing the student and the community.

    $15,174,087 spent$2,297,223 earned by the program
    10% of program spending
  3. Higher education: auxiliary enterprises - serves the student community by selling textbooks and other instructional materials and supplies, and provides meal service and housing.

    $13,272,083 spent$23,281,489 earned by the program
    9% of program spending
  4. Higher education: student services - serves the student community by providing registration assistance, counseling, career planning, internships, financial assistance, multicultural programming, orientation and advising, intramural sports, and other related programs.higher education: public services - includes a center for communicative disorders, art programs, alumni programs, community service and a national public radio station serving the students and community.higher education: research - supports extensive opportunities for students and faculty to conduct research on and off campus.

    $11,800,094 spent$3,947,624 earned by the program
    8% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $154,940,307.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($148M) Expenses 100 ($141M) Net assets 100 ($358M)2022 Revenue 106 ($157M) Expenses 103 ($146M) Net assets 94 ($338M)2023 Revenue 104 ($154M) Expenses 107 ($151M) Net assets 98 ($353M)2024 Revenue 115 ($170M) Expenses 115 ($162M) Net assets 105 ($377M)2025 Revenue 127 ($187M) Expenses 121 ($170M) Net assets 114 ($410M)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (127)Expenses (121)Net assets (114)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $421M to $452M (+7%).

$426M
$398M
$398M
$421M
$452M
20212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 6% · 2022 1% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

11% of AUGUSTANA COLLEGE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (14% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 732 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$6.5M
’21
$11M
’22
$2.7M
’23
$8.3M
’24
$17M
’25
1.1
months of
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

Michael Gapen

Chair of the board

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202320242025
Listed485044
Joined·+14+3
No longer listed·129
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 48 funders to 65 funders, grant income rose $3.3M → $6.2M.

22 of 145 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 AUGUSTANA COLLEGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 145 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

AUGUSTANA COLLEGE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

33% 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 AUGUSTANA COLLEGE.

28%
largest funder
44%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 48% · 2019 18% · 2020 26% · 2021 56% · 2022 35% · 2023 56% — growing more concentrated.

“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

50% of AUGUSTANA COLLEGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

AUGUSTANA COLLEGE draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 27 states in all.

MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
KS
NC
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

AUGUSTANA COLLEGE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 684 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin9% · above the median
Months of reserve1.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025

Government funding AUGUSTANA COLLEGE receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $16.6M on record.

Federal$16.6M
grants $16.5Mcontracts $75k
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25
Top agencies
  • Department of Education$12.1M
  • National Science Foundation$3.2M
  • Department of Justice$699k
  • Department of Health and Human Services$416k
  • National Endowment for the Humanities$82k
  • Department of the Interior$75k

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 AUGUSTANA COLLEGE

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 Illinois

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 8%Fundraising 1%

Governance

32
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

65%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 22 states

ME
NH
WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
CT
MO
VA
MD
NC
SC
DC
HI
LA
GA
FL

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Charitable Remainder Annuity Trust (10) · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds AUGUSTANA COLLEGE?
AUGUSTANA COLLEGE (Illinois) receives grants from 145 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,874,310 to it, the largest being THE AUSTIN E KNOWLTON FOUNDATION INC ($10,330,928). 94 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does AUGUSTANA COLLEGE have?
IRS filings report 145 organizations giving $36,874,310 in grants to AUGUSTANA COLLEGE, 94 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AUGUSTANA COLLEGE?
THE AUSTIN E KNOWLTON FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,330,928 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AUGUSTANA COLLEGE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 145 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