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Collegium Institute

Collegium Institute (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,192,686 to it, the largest being Foundation For Excellence in Higher Education ($1,577,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$854k
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$2.2M
Net assets
$1.1M
7/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 75%
01What it does

What Collegium Institute does

Mission

Collegium Institute is a Catholic intellectual apostolate that fosters the Catholic intellectual tradition within the University of Pennsylvania community and within the greater region and secular academia. (Continued on Sch. O)

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Collegium conducts 22 programs that draw diverse academic fields into conversation with the Catholic intellectual tradition. Programs include Professions and the Good Life, the Liberal Arts Series, and the Theology Series. Collegium also hosts or co-hosts a diverse set of professional publications, student media platforms, projects, and university partnerships in addition to public events and lectures. Student engagement included 523 undergraduate, graduate, and high school students, 212 high school and university faculty, and 1,460 total participants across all events. See further information in Schedule O.

    $671,190 spent$9,631 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $671,190.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($499k) Expenses 100 ($242k) Net assets 100 ($489k)2018 Revenue 92 ($459k) Expenses 136 ($329k) Net assets 127 ($618k)2019 Revenue 109 ($544k) Expenses 224 ($543k) Net assets 127 ($619k)2020 Revenue 96 ($480k) Expenses 165 ($399k) Net assets 143 ($698k)2021 Revenue 108 ($541k) Expenses 187 ($452k) Net assets 161 ($786k)2022 Revenue 139 ($693k) Expenses 176 ($426k) Net assets 219 ($1.1M)2023 Revenue 151 ($754k) Expenses 325 ($788k) Net assets 210 ($1.0M)2024 Revenue 171 ($854k) Expenses 318 ($770k) Net assets 226 ($1.1M)
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Revenue (171)Expenses (318)Net assets (226)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $789k to $1.1M (+36%).

$593k
$635k
$637k
$734k
$789k
$1.1M
$1.0M
$1.1M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$257k
’17
$130k
’18
$935
’19
$81k
’20
$89k
’21
$268k
’22
−$34k
’23
$84k
’24
14
months of
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

Matt OBrien

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed88121313161616
Joined·+0+6+9+1+3+1+3
No longer listed·0281013
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $145k → $428k.

7 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 Collegium Institute’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.

How concentrated its funding is

Collegium Institute leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

88% 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 Collegium Institute.

72%
largest funder
88%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 66% · 2019 46% · 2020 69% · 2021 79% · 2022 96% · 2023 88% — 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

50% of Collegium Institute's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

Collegium Institute draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 5 states in all.

NY
PA
NJ
CT
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $276k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding Collegium Institute receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $60k on record.

Federal$60k
grants $60kcontracts $0
20
26
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Humanities$60k

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 Collegium Institute

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 8%Fundraising 5%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

97%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Dappled Things Magazine · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds Collegium Institute?
Collegium Institute (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,192,686 to it, the largest being Foundation For Excellence in Higher Education ($1,577,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Collegium Institute have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $2,192,686 in grants to Collegium Institute, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Collegium Institute?
Foundation For Excellence in Higher Education is the largest funder on record, with $1,577,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Collegium Institute 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.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 12 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