Kentucky · Nonprofit
CENTRE COLLEGE
CENTRE COLLEGE (Kentucky) receives grants from 138 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,943,004 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($16,378,443). 83 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $139M
- Funders on record
- 138
- Grants received
- $40M
- Net assets
- $514M
What Centre College does
Mission
Centre College is a small, independent, and selective educational community dedicated to study in the liberal arts as a means to develop the intellectual, personal, and moral potential of its students. Centre nurtures in its students the ability to think logically and critically, to work creatively, to analyze and compare values, and to write and speak with clarity and grace. It acquaints students with the range of accomplishments of the human mind and spirit in a variety of arts and theoretical disciplines. It enables students to choose and fulfill significant responsibilities in society. In short, centre's highest priority is to prepare its students for lives of learning, leadership and service.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Founded in 1819, the sole mission of centre, a nationally ranked residential co-ed private liberal arts college, is to provide exceptional post-secondary undergraduate education to its students. We guarantee the opportunity to study abroad, to have an internship, and to graduate in four years. To develop a global perspective, about 85 percent of our students study abroad, with centre professors, at least once. Coupled with small classes, high graduation rates, engaged professors, and real-world preparation for career, graduates enjoy a high success rate for employment or graduate degree acceptance.
$123,717,956 spentof which $52,391,758 as grants$94,443,786 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $123,717,956.
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 $512M to $678M (+32%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 1% · 2021 4% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
30% of CENTRE 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. 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
Mark E Nunnelly
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 29 funders to 59 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $7.1M.
24 of 138 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 CENTRE COLLEGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 138 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
CENTRE COLLEGE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% 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
53% 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 CENTRE COLLEGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 37% · 2019 46% · 2020 31% · 2021 26% · 2022 41% · 2023 42% — 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
41% of CENTRE COLLEGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
CENTRE COLLEGE draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 28 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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
CENTRE COLLEGE's funding base is broadening — from 29 funders to 59 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding CENTRE COLLEGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.7M on record.
- Department of Education$4.9M
- National Science Foundation$326k
- Department of Health and Human Services$301k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$122k
- Department of Commerce$9k
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 CENTRE 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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
48%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Charitable Remainder Trust (4) · corp_trust
- Charitable Remainder Trust (2) · corp_trust
- Charitable Remainder Trust · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTRE 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 CENTRE COLLEGE?
- CENTRE COLLEGE (Kentucky) receives grants from 138 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,943,004 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($16,378,443). 83 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTRE COLLEGE have?
- IRS filings report 138 organizations giving $39,943,004 in grants to CENTRE COLLEGE, 83 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTRE COLLEGE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $16,378,443 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTRE COLLEGE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 138 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