Nebraska · Nonprofit
COLLEGE OF SAINT MARY
COLLEGE OF SAINT MARY (Nebraska) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,013,423 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($12,376,981). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $35M
- Funders on record
- 68
- Grants received
- $34M
- Net assets
- $92M
What College of Saint Mary does
Mission
College of Saint Mary is a catholic university providing access to education for women in an enviroment that calls forth potential, fosters leadership, and is consistent with the works, values, and aspirations of the sisters of mercy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
College of Saint Mary is a catholic university dedicated to the education of women in an enviroment that calls forth potential and fosters leadership. The college provides educational courses to approximately 450 undergraduate and 250 graduate level students.
$20,814,265 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $20,814,265.
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 $83M to $94M (+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 25% · 2022 2% · 2023 2% · 2024 3% · 2025 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
59% of COLLEGE OF SAINT MARY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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
Sue Weiler-Doke
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 30 funders, grant income rose $2.4M → $5.7M.
13 of 68 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 COLLEGE OF SAINT MARY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 68 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 MARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 78% · 2019 73% · 2020 31% · 2021 41% · 2022 19% · 2023 55% — 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
53% of COLLEGE OF SAINT MARY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
92% of COLLEGE OF SAINT MARY's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $967k arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 MARY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding COLLEGE OF SAINT MARY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.7M on record.
- Department of Education$5.7M
- National Science Foundation$1.5M
- Department of Justice$600k
- Department of Health and Human Services$554k
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$368k
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 MARY
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 Nebraska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Sisters of Mercy of the Americas · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COLLEGE OF SAINT MARY?
- COLLEGE OF SAINT MARY (Nebraska) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,013,423 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($12,376,981). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLLEGE OF SAINT MARY have?
- IRS filings report 68 organizations giving $34,013,423 in grants to COLLEGE OF SAINT MARY, 46 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLLEGE OF SAINT MARY?
- THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $12,376,981 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLLEGE OF SAINT MARY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. 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 68 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