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CONNECTICUT COLLEGE
CONNECTICUT COLLEGE (Connecticut) receives grants from 311 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,796,802 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,486,397). 212 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $186M
- Funders on record
- 311
- Grants received
- $40M
- Net assets
- $614M
What Connecticut College does
Mission
Connecticut College educates students to put the liberal arts into action as citizens of a global society. For additional information, see schedule o.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
*undergraduate instruction*the teaching of undergraduate students working towards a four-year degree in one of the various liberal arts and sciences majors offered by Connecticut College. The college's academic programs in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences are designed to shape ethical, informed citizens with a global perspective. Highlights of the academic program include a student-faculty ratio of 10:1, fourty five majors, approximately 175 full-time professors, language study, residential education programs, certificate programs, pre-law, pre-health and pre-business programs, and support for pursuing fellowships and scholarships.
$137,659,000 spentof which $75,163,000 as grants$123,167,000 earned by the program75% of program spending*auxiliary services*auxiliary services involves running the college's numberous dormitories and dining facilities. Connecticut College is a residential campus. Ninety-eight percent of students live on campus in 23 residence halls. Four dining halls on campus serve our students in a variety of capacities. The college extends the teaching and learning experience within the dormitories.
$38,851,000 spent$32,127,000 earned by the program21% of program spending*study away*is an opportunity for qualified students to study away for credit abroad or elsewhere in the us. The college has a long tradition of recognizing the importance of int'l studies and study away as reflected in our mission statement: "Connecticut College educates students to put the liberal arts into action as citizens in a global society". Approximately 50% of the college's students study away during their junior year through carefully selected programs. Our study away/teach away typically sends 10-12 students and faculty to host institutions throughout the world to complete a full semester of scholarly activity while being immersed in the local culture.
$4,867,000 spent$8,317,000 earned by the program3% of program spendingOther program services includes expenses related to alumni and reunion events, amortization of tax-exempt bond interest and fees, physical plant costs, depreciation, and administrative computing costs.
$2,200,000 spent$2,929,000 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $183,577,000.
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 $513M to $654M (+28%).
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: 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
9% of CONNECTICUT COLLEGE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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.
Chief executive
Justin Wolfradt
Exec dir facilities mgmt plan
Board chair
Seth W Alvord
Trustee & chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 93 funders to 153 funders, grant income rose $2.7M → $5.9M.
42 of 311 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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: $1.6M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Oakleaf Endowment Trust for Connecticut College). These are real filings, and they are not money CONNECTICUT COLLEGE raised.
From the IRS filings of CONNECTICUT COLLEGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 311 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
CONNECTICUT COLLEGE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 12 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 12 funders to its left
47% 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 CONNECTICUT COLLEGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 18% · 2018 25% · 2019 16% · 2020 14% · 2021 16% · 2022 14% · 2023 12% — 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
54% of CONNECTICUT COLLEGE'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
CONNECTICUT COLLEGE draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 32 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16M arriving through sponsors registered in 22 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
CONNECTICUT COLLEGE 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 CONNECTICUT COLLEGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $14.0M on record — $9.5M federal, $4.5M state.
- Department of Education$6.3M
- National Science Foundation$1.3M
- Department of Health and Human Services$990k
- Department of Defense$559k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$395k
- National Endowment for the Arts$15k
- CT$4.5M
- FL$800
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 CONNECTICUT COLLEGE
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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
63%
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 7 related entities
- Connecticut College Community Radio Inc · exempt
- Oakleaf Endowment Trust for Ct College · exempt
- Connecticut College Employer-Contribution · exempt
- Associated Kyoto Program Inc · exempt
- Phi Beta Kappa Society · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CONNECTICUT COLLEGE?
- CONNECTICUT COLLEGE (Connecticut) receives grants from 311 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,796,802 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,486,397). 212 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CONNECTICUT COLLEGE have?
- IRS filings report 311 organizations giving $39,796,802 in grants to CONNECTICUT COLLEGE, 212 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONNECTICUT COLLEGE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $4,486,397 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONNECTICUT COLLEGE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 311 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