Vermont · Nonprofit
GODDARD COLLEGE
GODDARD COLLEGE (Vermont) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,483,250 to it, the largest being THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($463,584). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $-649074
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Goddard College does
Mission
To advance cultures of rigorous inquiry, collaboration, and lifelong learning, where individuals take imaginative and responsible action in the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The college ceased running academic semesters after the spring semester in may, 2024. The college's board of directors voted to cease operations and close the college during the year ending june 30, 2025. The property was sold on may 1, 2025. Goddard College plans to fully dissolve before the end of calendar year 2025.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Goddard College did not run an academic semester during fiscal year ending june 30, 2025. The only programs that were run during fiscal year ending june 30, 2025 were 2 cohorts that ended on 7/12/2024 and 8/2/2024. The college has closed and plans to dissolve fully before the end of calendar year 2025.
$409,199 spent$73,857 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $409,199.
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 2024 to 2025, from $7.1M to $1.4M (−81%).
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: 2020 0% · 2021 16% · 2022 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of GODDARD COLLEGE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (65% 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.
Board chair
Mark Jones
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $157k → $50k.
6 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 GODDARD COLLEGE’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
GODDARD COLLEGE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
84% 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 GODDARD COLLEGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 47% · 2019 51% · 2020 40% · 2021 34% · 2022 48% · 2023 85% — 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
50% of GODDARD COLLEGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
56% of GODDARD COLLEGE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $654k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Vermont, across 12 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $829k 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.
Against its field
GODDARD COLLEGE's revenue fell 107% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding GODDARD COLLEGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.0M on record — $1.9M federal, $1.0M state.
- Department of Education$1.9M
- Other Grants$936k
- Gr, Awards, Scholarships&Loans$69k
- Contr&3rd Pty-Participant$5k
- Employee Tuition Costs$3k
- Rent Land&Bldgs-Non-Office$2k
- Food$1k
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 GODDARD 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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
14% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GODDARD 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds GODDARD COLLEGE?
- GODDARD COLLEGE (Vermont) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,483,250 to it, the largest being THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($463,584). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GODDARD COLLEGE have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,483,250 in grants to GODDARD COLLEGE, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GODDARD COLLEGE?
- THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $463,584 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GODDARD COLLEGE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 22 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