Kansas · Nonprofit
Benedictine College
Benedictine College (Kansas) receives grants from 165 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,153,387 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($19,938,250). 109 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $148M
- Funders on record
- 165
- Grants received
- $40M
- Net assets
- $183M
What Benedictine College does
Mission
Benedictine College's mission as a catholic, benedictine, liberal arts, residential college is the education of men and women within a community of faith & scholarship.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Benedictine College is a catholic, benedictine, liberal arts, residential college with a mission to educate men and women within a community of faith and scholarship. We have a vision to build one of the great catholic colleges in america, and attaining that vision requires a community-wide commitment to excellence. We dedicate ourselves to educating students to become leaders in the benedictine tradition, who will transform the world through their commitment to intellectual, personal and spiritual greatness. Benedictine College is located in atchison, kansas, on a 120-acre campus overlooking the missouri river, about 50 miles north of kansas city, missouri. The college also maintains a campus in florence, italy. Benedictine College has enjoyed enrollment growth for the past two decades and in the fall of 2025 had a full-time undergraduate student body of 2,247 students, more than doubling Benedictine College's enrollment from 20 years ago. For several years now, average gpa has been the highest of any freshman class at any college or university in kansas. It is obvious that Benedictine College is attracting both more students as well as the best and the brightest. Over 80% of…
$101,450,284 spentof which $46,319,813 as grants$106,382,619 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $101,450,284.
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 2021 to 2022, from $164M to $193M (+18%).
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: 2020 2% · 2021 7% · 2022 3% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
17% of Benedictine College’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
Tim Andrews
Executive director of planned giving
Board chair
Mike Kuckelman
Director/chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 32 funders to 77 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $7.9M.
29 of 165 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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 Benedictine College’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 165 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
Benedictine College leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
78% 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 Benedictine College.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 36% · 2019 34% · 2020 41% · 2021 32% · 2022 47% · 2023 42% — 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
46% of Benedictine College's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
77% of Benedictine College'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 $9.3M that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from funders outside Kansas, across 30 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31M arriving through sponsors registered in 20 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
Benedictine College 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 Benedictine College receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.5M on record.
- Department of Education$8.3M
- National Science Foundation$147k
- Department of Agriculture$29k
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 Benedictine 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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 12 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Kansas Independent College Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Benedictine 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 Benedictine College?
- Benedictine College (Kansas) receives grants from 165 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,153,387 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($19,938,250). 109 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Benedictine College have?
- IRS filings report 165 organizations giving $40,153,387 in grants to Benedictine College, 109 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Benedictine College?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $19,938,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Benedictine College find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 165 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