Wisconsin · Nonprofit
BELOIT COLLEGE
BELOIT COLLEGE (Wisconsin) receives grants from 136 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,710,550 to it, the largest being WEISSBERG FOUNDATION ($3,214,750). 87 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $100M
- Funders on record
- 136
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $185M
What Beloit College does
Mission
See schedule oBeloit College engages the intelligence, imagination, and curiosity of its students, empowering them to lead fulfilling lives marked by high achievement, personal responsibility, and public contribution in a diverse society. Our emphasis on international and interdisciplinary perspectives, the integration of knowledge with experience, and close collaboration among peers, professors, and staff equips our students to approach the complex problems of the world ethically and thoughtfully.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Academic and student program: Beloit College, a liberal arts college founded on the wisconsin frontier in 1846, was born out of a belief that a particular brand of education could energize and transform lives, and by extension, the world. Beloit continues to believe this and delivers it through a unique, integrated curriculum that engages students in an exploration of ideas, compels students to deeply know their subjects, and requires them to demonstrate that they do by deeply connecting education and experience to students' future careers and lives. That focus on providing a rigorous and rewarding education and preparation has long set the college and its graduates apart. Hailed as one of 40 "colleges that change lives" by former new york times education editor loren pope, beloit offers students access to more than 45 academic programs, more than 60 student clubs, 18 varsity sports, and countless other opportunities that range from hands-on field and internship experiences both locally and globally, to college-funded student business startups.during the 2024-25 academic year, the college served 1,004 students from 39 countries, 45 states, and the district of columbia. The college…
$72,535,430 spentof which $39,376,676 as grants$62,332,967 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $72,535,430.
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 2018 to 2019, from $256M to $225M (−12%).
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 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 1% · 2020 2% · 2021 6% · 2022 10% · 2023 5% · 2024 12% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
16% of BELOIT COLLEGE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Mr Donald Carson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 34 funders to 58 funders, grant income rose $1.6M → $1.9M.
32 of 136 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 BELOIT COLLEGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 136 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
BELOIT COLLEGE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
39% 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 BELOIT COLLEGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 40% · 2019 21% · 2020 22% · 2021 22% · 2022 24% · 2023 24% — 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
44% of BELOIT COLLEGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
BELOIT COLLEGE draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 25 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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
BELOIT COLLEGE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding BELOIT COLLEGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $16.0M on record.
- Department of Education$15.1M
- National Endowment for the Humanities$699k
- Department of the Interior$198k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$14k
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 BELOIT 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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Beloit Powerhouse LLC · partnership
- Powerhouse Master Tenant LLC · partnership
- Charitable Remainder Trusts (11) · corp_trust
- Beloit Powerhouse Holdings Inc · corp_trust
- Beloit Powerhouse Holdings II LLC · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BELOIT COLLEGE: 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 BELOIT COLLEGE?
- BELOIT COLLEGE (Wisconsin) receives grants from 136 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,710,550 to it, the largest being WEISSBERG FOUNDATION ($3,214,750). 87 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BELOIT COLLEGE have?
- IRS filings report 136 organizations giving $15,710,550 in grants to BELOIT COLLEGE, 87 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BELOIT COLLEGE?
- WEISSBERG FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,214,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BELOIT COLLEGE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 136 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