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FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE

FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 233 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,213,880 to it, the largest being NATIONAL COLLEGE ADVISING CORPS INC ($4,532,064). 162 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$199M
Revenue FY2025
233
Funders on record
$51M
Grants received
$695M
Net assets
162/233 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%

Against its field

FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE's funding base is broadening — from 69 funders to 104 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve1.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 671 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($213M) Expenses 100 ($189M) Net assets 100 ($526M)2018 Revenue 96 ($206M) Expenses 104 ($196M) Net assets 103 ($544M)2019 Revenue 98 ($209M) Expenses 106 ($199M) Net assets 104 ($548M)2020 Revenue 83 ($176M) Expenses 103 ($194M) Net assets 104 ($547M)2021 Revenue 98 ($210M) Expenses 101 ($190M) Net assets 128 ($671M)2022 Revenue 92 ($196M) Expenses 101 ($190M) Net assets 116 ($609M)2023 Revenue 88 ($187M) Expenses 101 ($190M) Net assets 118 ($623M)2024 Revenue 95 ($201M) Expenses 103 ($193M) Net assets 126 ($661M)2025 Revenue 94 ($199M) Expenses 103 ($195M) Net assets 132 ($695M)
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Revenue (94)Expenses (103)Net assets (132)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 2% · 2020 2% · 2021 2% · 2022 3% · 2023 1% · 2024 2% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

8% of FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (14% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 729 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$25M
17
$9.8M
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$9.8M
19
$18M
20
$19M
21
$6.2M
22
$3.0M
23
$7.9M
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$4.8M
25
1.4
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 69 funders to 104 funders, grant income rose $5.7M → $6.5M.

42 of 233 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)33% 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 FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 233 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

FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 9% of grant income, and it takes 10 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 10 funders to its left

48% 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 FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE.

9%
largest funder
21%
top three
~29
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 20% · 2019 17% · 2020 13% · 2021 23% · 2022 28% · 2023 15%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

46% of FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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

FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE draws 65% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 27 states in all.

VT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
NV
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
KS
NC
SC
DC
LA
TX
FL

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

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Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 233 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $22.0M on record — $22.0M federal, $50k state.

Federal$22.0M
grants $22.0Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Science Foundation$9.8M
  • Department of Education$8.4M
  • Department of Health and Human Services$2.9M
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$699k
  • Department of Commerce$150k
State$50k
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By state
  • NJ$26k
  • DE$24k

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 FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Pennsylvania

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 21%Fundraising 3%

Governance

36
board members
97%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

67%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 13 states

AK
NH
WA
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
CA
CO
KY
MD
DC

Part of a family of 18 related entities

  • Nw Gateway Project · partnership
  • Charitable Remainder Unitrust (1) · corp_trust
  • Charitable Remainder Unitrust (1) · corp_trust
  • Fox Adele W (Charit) · corp_trust
  • Split Interest Trust (1) · corp_trust

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE?
FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 233 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,213,880 to it, the largest being NATIONAL COLLEGE ADVISING CORPS INC ($4,532,064). 162 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE have?
IRS filings report 233 organizations giving $51,213,880 in grants to FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE, 162 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE?
NATIONAL COLLEGE ADVISING CORPS INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,532,064 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE 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 233funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing