Massachusetts · Nonprofit
GORDON COLLEGE
GORDON COLLEGE (Massachusetts) receives grants from 146 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,881,074 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,797,270). 75 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $83M
- Funders on record
- 146
- Grants received
- $26M
- Net assets
- $163M
What Gordon College does
Mission
Gordon College strives to graduate men & women distinguished by (continued on schedule o) (continuation) intellectual maturity and christian character, committed to lives of service and prepared for leadership worldwide.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Higher education: our largest program service is providing education and instruction to individuals giving them an opportunity to earn an undergraduate degree, graduate degree, or graduate certificate. The college welcomes dual-enrollment students and learners pursuing professional development after college. Gordon College is the only nondenominational christian liberal arts college in new england. It offers 35 majors and confers 3 distinct undergraduate degrees: bachelor of arts, bachelor of science and bachelor of music. Undergraduate enrollment of 1,501 students (degree seeking and non-degree seeking) is drawn from 43 states and 38 countries. Graduate enrollment in 2024-25 was 544 students. (continued in schedule o). (continuation) in 2024-2025, Gordon College issued 317 undergraduate degrees (with a six-year graduation rate of 71%). Gordon had a faculty to student ratio of 11 to 1 with 63% of the students from outside massachusetts. Of the 91 full-time faculty, 76% have earned a doctorate or other terminal degree. Gordon College students can take advantage of a wide variety of off-campus programs, both domestic and abroad. During 2024-25, 100 students participated in…
$53,055,023 spentof which $17,955,216 as grants$40,748,741 earned by the program75% of program spendingAuxiliary programs related to the educational process for dormitory housing, food service, bookstore, lavida outdoor experience, balance and mobility center, summer athletic camps and other summer programs. There were 1,131 resident students in the fall semester 2024 and 1,079 in the spring semester 2025.
$15,423,259 spent$17,723,678 earned by the program22% of program spendingHigher education: as of the 2024-25 academic year, Gordon College offers graduate programs in education, music education, christian leadership, theology, and public health conferring degrees in masters of education, education specialist in education, masters of music education, master of arts in christian leadership, education specialist in christian leadership, master of theology for community transformation, and master of public health. The total of unduplicated graduate students was 544 drawn from 37 states and 16 countries. Gordon College conferred 100 master's degrees in 2024-25.
$1,834,843 spentof which $82,792 as grants$2,538,292 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $70,313,125.
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 2018 to 2019, from $145M to $195M (+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: 2017 0% · 2018 1% · 2019 0% · 2020 1% · 2021 2% · 2022 6% · 2023 2% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of GORDON COLLEGE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Dr Carrie Tibbles
Chairman of the board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 34 funders to 49 funders, grant income rose $2.9M → $3.6M.
31 of 146 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 GORDON COLLEGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 146 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
GORDON COLLEGE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
74% 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 GORDON COLLEGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 35% · 2019 38% · 2020 52% · 2021 41% · 2022 35% · 2023 42% — 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
38% of GORDON COLLEGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
69% of GORDON 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 $8.1M that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 29 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18M arriving through sponsors registered in 20 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
GORDON COLLEGE's revenue fell 28% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding GORDON COLLEGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9.6M on record — $8.2M federal, $1.4M state.
- Department of Education$6.9M
- National Science Foundation$1.3M
- MA$1.4M
- NJ$41k
- FL$30
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 GORDON 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
43%
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 2 related entities
- Gordon College Foundation · exempt
- Charitable Remainder Trusts(4) · corp_trust
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GORDON 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 GORDON COLLEGE?
- GORDON COLLEGE (Massachusetts) receives grants from 146 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,881,074 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,797,270). 75 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GORDON COLLEGE have?
- IRS filings report 146 organizations giving $25,881,074 in grants to GORDON COLLEGE, 75 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GORDON COLLEGE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $6,797,270 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GORDON COLLEGE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 146 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