Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
COLLEGIAN INC
COLLEGIAN INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,224 to it, the largest being CENTRE FOUNDATION INC ($5,224). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $491k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Collegian Inc does
Mission
To publish a quality collegiate newspaper for the penn state community and to provide a rewarding educational experience for the student staff members.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The collegian educates students about the fields of journalism, business, management, and publishing by supervising the preparation, printing, and distribution of the daily collegian, the weekly collegian, and the collegian magazine, p.s, and the daily collegian online. The corporation's revenue is primarily derived from the circulation of and advertisements placed in the publications noted above.
$350,252 spent$414,488 earned by the program73% of program spendingThe collegian offers scholarships to encourage students to participate on the staff of the student newspaper and to assist students in paying for their college education at penn state.
$132,616 spentof which $132,616 as grants27% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $482,868.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.2M to $1.6M (+39%).
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: 2021 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of COLLEGIAN INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (57% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 COLLEGIAN INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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.
Where its funders are
100% of COLLEGIAN INC'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
COLLEGIAN INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like COLLEGIAN INC
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Pennsylvania State University · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COLLEGIAN INC: 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 COLLEGIAN INC?
- COLLEGIAN INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,224 to it, the largest being CENTRE FOUNDATION INC ($5,224). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COLLEGIAN INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,224 in grants to COLLEGIAN INC.
- Who is the largest funder of COLLEGIAN INC?
- CENTRE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,224 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLLEGIAN INC 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.
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 1 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