Minnesota · Nonprofit
COLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT
COLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT (Minnesota) receives grants from 128 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,569,713 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,595,496). 77 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $117M
- Funders on record
- 128
- Grants received
- $21M
- Net assets
- $253M
What College of Saint Benedict does
Mission
To provide for women the best undergraduate residential liberal arts education along with select graduate programs, in the catholic and benedictine traditions. The college fosters integrated learning, exceptional leadership for change and wisdom for a lifetime.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Higher education: educational instruction, 1,405 fall fte students enrolled in undergraduate and graduate courses, 347 graduates. The College of Saint Benedict will be nationally recognized as a community that provides a liberal arts education preparing women to think critically, lead courageously, and advocate passionately. The College of Saint Benedict designs programs to meet the needs and aspirations of young women, emphasizing women's leadership and a personal development profile that includes intellectual, spiritual, emotional and physical development. Its values-based and value-added residential liberal arts education provides the framework for fulfilling lives of disciplined inquiry and leadership in careers devoted to the professions, public life and service to others.
$86,861,574 spentof which $46,680,244 as grants$77,376,504 earned by the program87% of program spendingHigher education: auxiliary revenue (dining, housing, etc.) 1,366 students. The residential life program at the College of Saint Benedict provides a four-year residential experience of community living which supports and challenges our students with opportunities for personal and social growth. This experience allows women to develop an understanding and appreciation of their responsibilities to themselves and others living in the community on campus and beyond.
$13,177,807 spent$16,387,457 earned by the program13% of program spendingOther program services: fine arts programming and other student and community services designed to foster development and growth outside the classroom. Our fine arts events bring regional and national artists to our community. Other programs include service trips, conferences, service to other organizations, and campus events.
$0 spent$931,345 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $100,039,381.
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 $252M to $272M (+8%).
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 3% · 2022 5% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
18% of COLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT’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. 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
Leanne Stewart
Trustee - chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 37 funders to 52 funders, grant income rose $1.7M → $2.5M.
31 of 128 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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: $24M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Schoeneckers Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money COLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT raised.
From the IRS filings of COLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 128 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 SAINT BENEDICT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
69% 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 SAINT BENEDICT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 36% · 2019 30% · 2020 14% · 2021 21% · 2022 35% · 2023 20% — 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
51% of COLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT'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
61% of COLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT'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 $8.1M that is directly attributable, 64% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 26 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12M 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
COLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT is better cushioned than half of the 684 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding COLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $11.9M on record.
- Department of Education$11.1M
- Department of Justice$300k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$211k
- National Science Foundation$147k
- National Endowment for the Arts$130k
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 SAINT BENEDICT
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 18 states
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Sisters of the Order of Saint Benedict · exempt
- St John's University · exempt
- Order of St Benedict · exempt
- Life Estate Trust (1) · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT?
- COLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT (Minnesota) receives grants from 128 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,569,713 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,595,496). 77 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT have?
- IRS filings report 128 organizations giving $20,569,713 in grants to COLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT, 77 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,595,496 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 128 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