Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
BRYN MAWR COLLEGE
BRYN MAWR COLLEGE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 246 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,549,089 to it, the largest being INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC ($24,877,590). 159 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $274M
- Funders on record
- 246
- Grants received
- $81M
- Net assets
- $1.6B
What Bryn Mawr College does
Mission
Provide a rigorous education and encourage pursuit of knowledge as preparation for life and work.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Instruction: during the year, Bryn Mawr College's enrollment consisted of approximately 1,463 full and part-time undergraduate students and 318 graduate and professional students. In fy2025, bryn mawr conferred 382 bachelor's degrees; 60 post-baccalaureate certificates; 90 master's degrees and 2 doctoral degrees. Seventy eight percent of full-time undergraduate students received some form of financial aid. The average aid award for students with assessed financial need was $67,305. In addition, during fiscal year 2025, the college provided over $0.9 million in subawards to other institutions for instruction in critical languages.
$168,794,898 spentof which $57,321,707 as grants$132,550,051 earned by the program97% of program spendingResearch: since its founding in 1885, the college has maintained its character as a small residential community which fosters close working relationships between faculty and students. The faculty of teacher/scholars emphasizes learning through conversation and collaboration, primary reading, original research and experimentation. The college's faculty research support programs reflect a strong institutional commitment to faculty scholarship and to the relationship between teaching and research.
$2,666,714 spentof which $70,744 as grants$2,666,714 earned by the program2% of program spendingPublic service and civic engagement: Bryn Mawr College's phebe anna thorne school has been serving children, adolescents, and adults in the greater philadelphia area for more than sixty years. The thorne school continues to offer developmentally oriented, child-centered pre-school and kindergarten programs. Civic engagement collaborates with community-based organizations to prepare students to be socially responsible leaders and citizens through purposeful action, reflection, and learning. A wide variety of programs include providing direct service such as tutoring, tax preparation, mentoring, community gardening, and leadership training, and reflecting on that service inside and outside of a classroom setting. (see shedule o)this dynamic combination of the practical and the academic helps shape students' professional goals, gives them real work experience, and provides the philadelphia metropolitan area with much-needed services.
$1,710,918 spentof which $2,272 as grants$941,840 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $173,172,530.
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 $1.2B to $1.6B (+29%).
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 4% · 2018 3% · 2019 3% · 2020 3% · 2021 3% · 2022 3% · 2023 2% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
11% of BRYN MAWR 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. 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.
Board chair
Cynthia Archer
Chair board of trustees
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 69 funders to 108 funders, grant income rose $7.8M → $11M.
42 of 246 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 BRYN MAWR COLLEGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 246 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
BRYN MAWR COLLEGE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
59% 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 BRYN MAWR COLLEGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 52% · 2019 48% · 2020 39% · 2021 42% · 2022 18% · 2023 29% — 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
52% of BRYN MAWR COLLEGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
55% of BRYN MAWR 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 $36M that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 31 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $44M 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
BRYN MAWR 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 BRYN MAWR COLLEGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $22.2M on record — $22.2M federal, $8k state.
- National Science Foundation$14.2M
- Department of Education$5.1M
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.6M
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$169k
- Department of Energy$150k
- DIAMOND STATE SCHOLARSHIP$7k
- SCHOLARSHIPS$2k
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 BRYN MAWR 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 Pennsylvania
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
36%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 14 states
Part of a family of 6 related entities
- Remainder Trusts (Total 24) · corp_trust
- Charitable Income Trusts (Total 13) · corp_trust
- Charitable Remainder Unitrusts(Total 13) · corp_trust
- Charitable Gift Annuity Fund (Total 1) · corp_trust
- Charitable Pooled Income Fund (Total 1) · corp_trust
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BRYN MAWR 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 BRYN MAWR COLLEGE?
- BRYN MAWR COLLEGE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 246 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,549,089 to it, the largest being INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC ($24,877,590). 159 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BRYN MAWR COLLEGE have?
- IRS filings report 246 organizations giving $80,549,089 in grants to BRYN MAWR COLLEGE, 159 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRYN MAWR COLLEGE?
- INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $24,877,590 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRYN MAWR COLLEGE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 246 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