North Carolina · Nonprofit
GUILFORD COLLEGE
GUILFORD COLLEGE (North Carolina) receives grants from 116 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,675,953 to it, the largest being Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc ($1,180,000). 68 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.4M
- Funders on record
- 116
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $117M
What Guilford College does
Mission
To provide a transformative, practical, and excellent liberal arts education that produces critical thinkers in an inclusive, diverse environment, guided by quaker testimonies of community, equality, integrity, peace, and simplicity and emphasizing the creative problem solving skills, experience, enthusiasm and international perspectives necessary to promote positive change in the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provided educational opportunities for 972 students at the undergraduate level. Guilford has a diverse study body that includes traditional, transfer audit and early college students. In addition, there's the wiser justice program, which provides incarcerated individuals the opportunity to earn college credits by taking courses taught by guilford professors. 12:1 student-to faculty ratio, an average class size of 17 students means students receive individual attention from exceptionally accomplished faculty who know their fields. In addition, Guilford College has three graduate programs: masters of business management, master of criminal justice, and master of international sport management.
$3,884,408 spentof which $46,936 as grants$660,398 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,884,408.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $184M to $212M (+16%).
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 11% · 2019 12% · 2020 17% · 2021 16% · 2022 20% · 2023 9% · 2024 1% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
69% of GUILFORD COLLEGE’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. 4 of the last 8 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
Daniel D Mosca
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 21 funders to 43 funders, grant income rose $534k → $1.3M.
23 of 116 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 GUILFORD COLLEGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 116 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
GUILFORD COLLEGE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
60% 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 GUILFORD COLLEGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 61% · 2019 16% · 2020 24% · 2021 12% · 2022 25% · 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
42% of GUILFORD COLLEGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
GUILFORD COLLEGE draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 27 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.5M 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
GUILFORD COLLEGE holds deeper cash reserves 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 GUILFORD COLLEGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $16.0M on record.
- Department of Education$14.0M
- National Science Foundation$1.5M
- Department of Justice$400k
- Department of State$165k
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 GUILFORD 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GUILFORD 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 GUILFORD COLLEGE?
- GUILFORD COLLEGE (North Carolina) receives grants from 116 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,675,953 to it, the largest being Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc ($1,180,000). 68 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GUILFORD COLLEGE have?
- IRS filings report 116 organizations giving $10,675,953 in grants to GUILFORD COLLEGE, 68 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GUILFORD COLLEGE?
- Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,180,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GUILFORD COLLEGE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 116 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