Massachusetts · Nonprofit
COLLEGE OF OUR LADY OF THE ELMS
COLLEGE OF OUR LADY OF THE ELMS (Massachusetts) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,979,572 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($2,789,083). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $46M
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $9.0M
- Net assets
- $63M
What College of Our Lady of the Elms does
Mission
The College of Our Lady of the Elms, a catholic college, educates a diverse group of students in a supportive, vibrant learning community. Combining a liberal arts education with professional studies, elms college empowers students to effect positive changes in the community and in the world. Affirming the founding tradition of the sisters of st. Joseph, elms college challenges students to embrace change without compromising principle, to respond creatively to the demands of their chosen careers, and to advocate for people in need. Elms college is a community rooted in faith, educated in mind, compassionate in heart, and responsive to civic and social obligations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The college is devoted to educating students in a supported, vibrant learning community and has adapted to changing times by developing innovative programs designed to prepare them for leadership in a wide variety of fields. Educational programs are offered in seven different sessions. During the 2024/2025 school year, we served 1,633 full and part time students.
$35,990,263 spentof which $18,296,348 as grants$37,568,859 earned by the program96% of program spendingAuxiliary services include cafeteria, health center, and other facilities provided for the convenience of the students, faculty, adjunct, and staff. During the year 2,103 people were served.
$1,445,635 spent$2,932,791 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $37,435,898.
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 2019 to 2020, from $61M to $69M (+13%).
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 3% · 2021 8% · 2022 10% · 2023 6% · 2024 3% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
7% of COLLEGE OF OUR LADY OF THE ELMS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Paul M Stelzer
Chair of board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $71k → $2.3M.
9 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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: $463k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts). These are real filings, and they are not money COLLEGE OF OUR LADY OF THE ELMS raised.
From the IRS filings of COLLEGE OF OUR LADY OF THE ELMS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 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
COLLEGE OF OUR LADY OF THE ELMS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
40% 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 COLLEGE OF OUR LADY OF THE ELMS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 61% · 2019 76% · 2020 34% · 2021 56% · 2022 73% · 2023 44% — 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 COLLEGE OF OUR LADY OF THE ELMS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
COLLEGE OF OUR LADY OF THE ELMS draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
COLLEGE OF OUR LADY OF THE ELMS's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 17 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding COLLEGE OF OUR LADY OF THE ELMS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $227k on record.
- National Science Foundation$227k
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 COLLEGE OF OUR LADY OF THE ELMS
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
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
- Elms College Foundation Inc · exempt
- Friends of Elms College Inc · exempt
- Perpetual Trust (1) · corp_trust
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COLLEGE OF OUR LADY OF THE ELMS: 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 COLLEGE OF OUR LADY OF THE ELMS?
- COLLEGE OF OUR LADY OF THE ELMS (Massachusetts) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,979,572 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($2,789,083). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLLEGE OF OUR LADY OF THE ELMS have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $8,979,572 in grants to COLLEGE OF OUR LADY OF THE ELMS, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLLEGE OF OUR LADY OF THE ELMS?
- WK Kellogg Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $2,789,083 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLLEGE OF OUR LADY OF THE ELMS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 46 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing