Connecticut · Nonprofit
DWIGHT HALL AT YALE
DWIGHT HALL AT YALE (Connecticut) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,677,989 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($632,505). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.3M
- Funders on record
- 63
- Grants received
- $3.7M
- Net assets
- $16M
What Dwight Hall at Yale does
Mission
Dwight Hall at Yale's mission is to nurture and inspire students as leaders of social change and to advance justice and service in new haven and around the world. As such, Dwight Hall at Yale supports students as they seek meaningful service opportunities, develops the capacity for civic leadership among the student body, and creates a collaborative space where social issues are discussed, analyzed and acted upon in concrete ways. With a strong history of service and social justice that goes back to 1886, the organization supports service for more than 58 student-run member groups that engage approximately 3,500 students, or nearly 2/3, of yale's undergraduates each year. Dwight hall enables students to design, manage, evaluate and adapt responses to a wide range of local, national and global needs, then supports those efforts through training, peer mentorship, and reflection opportunities. This culture of action and reflection encourages student leaders to share best practices, learn
As stated on its FY2017 Form 990.
Programs
Student service opportunities and civic engagement - comprising 87 groups, student-led programming is a core aspect of the work of Dwight Hall at Yale. Led by a student executive committee that provides governance and guidance, the groups forge trusted partnerships with new haven neighborhoods and communities around the world. Student-led member groups work on various causes and issues, including mentorship and tutoring, hunger, homelessness, peace, and health education. While dwight hall resources such as funding, transportation, working space, and publicity are utilized, it is the training, mentoring, and reflection that provide the greatest support to the student groups.in the 2024-2025 academic year, the organization engaged 4,481 volunteers who contributed more than 59,895 hours of direct service.
$868,371 spent27% of program spendingFellowships and experiential learning - Dwight Hall at Yale now offers 26 distinct programs, including fellowships, internships, and other leadership development opportunities for students. Through the support of Dwight Hall at Yale staff, students engage with internal yale communities and external organizations, community partners, and agencies dedicated to particular areas of service and community need. Dwight hall urban fellows seek to uncover and address urban challenges through neighborhood collaboration, community-led solutions, and economic development. Dwight hall summer fellows is an institutional program through which students design a project in conjunction with field experts that is realistic, will show demonstratable results, and contributes positively to the community. Public school interns serve as liaisons between the yale community and a new haven public school to which they are assigned.
$643,686 spent20% of program spendingCo-op after school - a signature program of Dwight Hall at Yale co-op after school is the only after school model in the country that continually evolves around the needs of high school students to accomodate their voluntary participation. Since 2010, Dwight Hall at Yale has been a recipient of the connecticut state department of education's after school grant and has managed and operated the program in conjunction with new haven's cooperative arts and humanities interdistrict magnet high school. The program model is built on freedom of choice and breadth of opportunity, which leads to a depth of experience manifested in positive social relationships, increased self-expression, and higher academic performance.yale prison education initiative - a signature program of Dwight Hall at Yalethe yale prison education initiative (ypei) was founded as a dwight hall program in 2016 to bring access to rigorous, for-credit yale liberal arts courses and other programming to incarcerated students in connecticut prisons. In fiscal year 2025, ypei continued its expansion into a year-round degree-granting program in partnership with the university of new haven and offered college-to-career…
$1,645,070 spent$30,670 earned by the program52% of program spendingIn fiscal year 2025, Dwight Hall at Yale continued to support innovative student-led groups like the dwight hall socially responsible investment fund. This organization now consists of a community investment team making grants to new haven organizations, a shareholder engagement team, and a portfolio team.
$8,146 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,165,273.
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 $11M to $14M (+34%).
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: 2018 12% · 2019 14% · 2020 10% · 2021 15% · 2022 7% · 2023 8% · 2024 8% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of DWIGHT HALL AT YALE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% 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.
Chief executive
Peter Crumlish
Executive director
Board chair
Bradford Williams
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $81k → $806k.
18 of 63 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.
From the IRS filings of DWIGHT HALL AT YALE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 63 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
DWIGHT HALL AT YALE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 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 DWIGHT HALL AT YALE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 47% · 2019 53% · 2020 55% · 2021 33% · 2022 20% · 2023 19% — 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
43% of DWIGHT HALL AT YALE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
DWIGHT HALL AT YALE draws 53% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 17 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
DWIGHT HALL AT YALE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding DWIGHT HALL AT YALE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$30k
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 DWIGHT HALL AT YALE
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DWIGHT HALL AT YALE?
- DWIGHT HALL AT YALE (Connecticut) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,677,989 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($632,505). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DWIGHT HALL AT YALE have?
- IRS filings report 63 organizations giving $3,677,989 in grants to DWIGHT HALL AT YALE, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DWIGHT HALL AT YALE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $632,505 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DWIGHT HALL AT YALE 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 63 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