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Eckerd College

Eckerd College (Florida) receives grants from 171 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,963,229 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($1,325,000). 112 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$150M
Funders on record
171
Grants received
$14M
Net assets
$200M
112/171 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Eckerd College does

Mission

The mission of Eckerd College is to provide excellent innovative undergraduate liberal arts education and lifelong learning programs in the unique florida environment, within the context of a covenant relationship with the presbyterian church (u.s.a.).

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Instruction and scholarships to/for students - students come from 52 states and territories and 36 countries. Students can choose from 42 majors in the residential program or design their own interdisciplinary concentrations. All programs lead to a bachelor of arts, bachelor of fine arts or bachelor of science degree. Attending Eckerd College during the 2024-25 academic year were 1,893 full-time and part-time degree-seeking students. For information about majors and minors visit www.eckerd.edu/academics/ or www.eckerd.edu/admissions/ for scholarship information.

    $87,380,413 spentof which $50,737,389 as grants$106,942,363 earned by the program
    71% of program spending
  2. Student services - provide services to students apart from instruction such as admissions, financial aid, student activities, athletics and more. Approximately 97% of Eckerd College students receive financial assistance as a result of the efforts of the financial aid office. The college's students have access to many services including the fitness center, the outdoor pool, men's and women's sports, student government, student media (radio, tv and newspaper) and registered student clubs and organizations. More information is available about Eckerd College athletics and clubs at www.eckerdtritons.com and www.eckerd.edu/campus-life/.

    $16,193,766 spent
    13% of program spending
  3. Auxiliary services - housing, food service and others. With 87 percent of students living in the residence halls, Eckerd College offers residence halls that range from traditional rooms with a shared common area to apartment style suites. Food services are provided by a third party management company that operates several locations across eckerd's main campus. More information is available at www.eckerd.edu/.

    $13,994,299 spent$21,618,407 earned by the program
    11% of program spending
  4. Other program services expense includes academic support services and research.

    $6,295,701 spent$462,571 earned by the program
    5% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $123,864,179.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($115M) Expenses 100 ($112M) Net assets 100 ($157M)2018 Revenue 106 ($122M) Expenses 105 ($118M) Net assets 104 ($163M)2019 Revenue 111 ($128M) Expenses 109 ($122M) Net assets 108 ($169M)2020 Revenue 111 ($128M) Expenses 111 ($124M) Net assets 108 ($170M)2021 Revenue 117 ($135M) Expenses 104 ($116M) Net assets 120 ($189M)2022 Revenue 109 ($125M) Expenses 123 ($137M) Net assets 113 ($177M)2023 Revenue 125 ($144M) Expenses 126 ($141M) Net assets 114 ($180M)2024 Revenue 138 ($159M) Expenses 128 ($143M) Net assets 124 ($196M)2025 Revenue 130 ($150M) Expenses 130 ($145M) Net assets 127 ($200M)
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Revenue (130)Expenses (130)Net assets (127)Peer revenue range

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 $226M to $247M (+9%).

$219M
$222M
$226M
$226M
$247M
$233M
$240M
$254M
$261M
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 2% · 2020 2% · 2021 5% · 2022 5% · 2023 2% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

6% of Eckerd College’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (14% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 732 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$3.7M
’17
$4.4M
’18
$6.4M
’19
$3.6M
’20
$19M
’21
−$12M
’22
$2.7M
’23
$16M
’24
$4.9M
’25
1.4
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

Ian Johnson

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2017201820192020202120242025
Listed33343337363635
Joined·+3+2+8+4·+3
No longer listed·2345·4
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 42 funders to 72 funders, grant income rose $490k → $2.7M.

31 of 171 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 Eckerd College’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 171 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

Eckerd College has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 9% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left

63% 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 Eckerd College.

9%
largest funder
25%
top three
~23
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 18% · 2018 26% · 2019 25% · 2020 16% · 2021 17% · 2022 18% · 2023 23% — 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

45% of Eckerd College's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

Eckerd College draws 64% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 26 states in all.

ME
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
NM
KS
TN
NC
DC
OK
AL
GA
TX
FL

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

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Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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

Against its field

Eckerd College's funding base is broadening — from 42 funders to 72 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve1.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025

Government funding Eckerd College receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $11.6M on record — $11.1M federal, $440k state.

Federal$11.1M
grants $11.0Mcontracts $94k
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Top agencies
  • Department of Education$8.8M
  • National Science Foundation$1.1M
  • Environmental Protection Agency$500k
  • Department of Commerce$365k
  • Department of the Interior$255k
  • Department of Defense$49k
State$440k
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By state
  • FL$404k
  • NJ$36k
  • OK$60

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 Eckerd 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 Florida

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 13%Fundraising 1%

Governance

24
board members
96%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 9 states

NH
ND
MI
MA
IN
OH
MD
AL
FL

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Ecp2 Inc · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds Eckerd College?
Eckerd College (Florida) receives grants from 171 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,963,229 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($1,325,000). 112 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Eckerd College have?
IRS filings report 171 organizations giving $13,963,229 in grants to Eckerd College, 112 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Eckerd College?
VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $1,325,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Eckerd College find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 171 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