Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
CEDAR CREST COLLEGE
CEDAR CREST COLLEGE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 79 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,925,720 to it, the largest being THE CENTURY FUND TRUST ($404,000). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $57M
- Funders on record
- 79
- Grants received
- $3.9M
- Net assets
- $84M
What Cedar Crest College does
Mission
Cedar Crest College is a liberal arts college primarily for women dedicated to the education of the next generation of leaders. The college prepares students for life in a global community by educating the whole student at all stages of life and experience.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The college campus, with 19 primary buildings, is located in the western residential section of the city of allentown, pennsylvania in the lehigh valley, which has a combined population of approximately 820,000. The college is within 55 miles of philadelphia and 90 miles of new york city. The college serves approximately 1,250 students and has a 9:1 student-faculty ratio. The college is accredited by the middle states commission on higher education.a women's college in allentown, pennsylvania, was first envisioned by the fathers of the united church of christ, who, in 1867, established a program for their daughters to achieve education beyond high school. More than 150 years later, cedar crest remains primarily a women's college dedicated to the education of the next generation of leaders. Through academic courses, student-life programming, athletics, activities, and pre-professional practices, the college empowers students to meet the needs of the future, pursue varied interests, inspire progressive thinking, and contribute to the global community.
$47,481,639 spentof which $15,498,259 as grants$41,433,580 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $47,481,639.
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 $94M to $109M (+16%).
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 3% · 2019 1% · 2020 4% · 2021 15% · 2022 10% · 2023 2% · 2024 2% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
12% of CEDAR CREST 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. 3 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
Robin Ann Ingram
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 33 funders, grant income rose $305k → $356k.
14 of 79 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $42k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Alumnae Assoc of Cedar Crest College). These are real filings, and they are not money CEDAR CREST COLLEGE raised.
From the IRS filings of CEDAR CREST COLLEGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 79 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
CEDAR CREST COLLEGE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 10% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 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 CEDAR CREST COLLEGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 15% · 2019 18% · 2020 31% · 2021 47% · 2022 12% · 2023 13% — 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
50% of CEDAR CREST COLLEGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
71% of CEDAR CREST COLLEGE's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
CEDAR CREST COLLEGE's funding base is broadening — from 20 funders to 33 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding CEDAR CREST COLLEGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10.8M on record — $10.7M federal, $89k state.
- Department of Education$9.4M
- Department of Justice$608k
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$500k
- Department of Health and Human Services$190k
- NJ$87k
- DE$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 CEDAR CREST 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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Charitable Remainder Trust (2) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CEDAR CREST 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 CEDAR CREST COLLEGE?
- CEDAR CREST COLLEGE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 79 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,925,720 to it, the largest being THE CENTURY FUND TRUST ($404,000). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CEDAR CREST COLLEGE have?
- IRS filings report 79 organizations giving $3,925,720 in grants to CEDAR CREST COLLEGE, 47 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CEDAR CREST COLLEGE?
- THE CENTURY FUND TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $404,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CEDAR CREST 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.
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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 79 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