Washington · Nonprofit
BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE
BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE (Washington) receives grants from 155 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,240,059 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($10,020,100). 99 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $208M
- Funders on record
- 155
- Grants received
- $57M
- Net assets
- $1.0B
What Board of Trustees of Whitman College does
Mission
The mission of whitman college is to provide a rigorous liberal arts education of the highest quality to passionate and engaged students from diverse backgrounds. Whitman students develop their intellectual and creative capacities in a supportive scholarly community that prioritizes student learning within and beyond the classroom.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
To provide academic instruction, support and other programs to all whitman college students, including 1,459 full-year unduplicated full time equivalent students and 417 graduated students.
$74,238,665 spent$99,288,968 earned by the program51% of program spendingTo provide students with services including financial aid assistance, counseling, internships, job placement, instructional scholarships, and federal loans or grants. During the fiscal year, 1,519 students received instructional scholarships and 683 students received federal loans or grants.
$54,384,012 spentof which $54,384,012 as grants38% of program spendingTo provide students with auxiliary services. During the fiscal year, 918 students were housed in college-provided housing and 828 students participated in college-provided board plans.
$16,264,870 spent$13,261,806 earned by the program11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $144,887,547.
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 $862M to $1.1B (+31%).
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 2% · 2022 1% · 2023 0% · 2024 2% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
11% of BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE’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. 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 53 funders to 69 funders, grant income rose $2.8M → $11M.
29 of 155 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 155 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
BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% 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
63% 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 BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 52% · 2019 26% · 2020 15% · 2021 30% · 2022 23% · 2023 31% — broadly stable.
“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 BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN 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
60% of BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN 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 $23M that is directly attributable, 54% of it comes from funders outside Washington, across 29 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $34M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE holds deeper cash reserves 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 BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.9M on record.
- Department of Education$3.9M
- National Science Foundation$2.6M
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.2M
- National Endowment for the Humanities$287k
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 BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN 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 Washington
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
54%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 39 states
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Whitman College 21st Century Trust · exempt
- Charitable Lead Annuity Trust (1) · corp_trust
- Charitable Remainder Trusts (29) · corp_trust
- Pooled Income Funds (2) · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE?
- BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE (Washington) receives grants from 155 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,240,059 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($10,020,100). 99 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE have?
- IRS filings report 155 organizations giving $57,240,059 in grants to BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE, 99 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE?
- GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,020,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 155 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