Massachusetts · Nonprofit
HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES
HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES (Massachusetts) receives grants from 138 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,308,410 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($8,253,563). 91 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $69M
- Funders on record
- 138
- Grants received
- $18M
- Net assets
- $38M
What Hampshire College Trustees does
Mission
The mission of hampshire college is to foster a lifelong passion for learning, inquiry, and ethical citizenship that inspires students to contribute to knowledge, justice, and positive change in the world and, by doing so, to transform higher education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Instructional and other educational activities. Hampshire college provides instruction for 800 undergraduate students and employs 55 fte faculty. Educational delivery also includes student financial aid programs. Financial aid includes grants, scholarships, and government aid awards to assist students in the financial cost of attending hampshire college. 100% of our faculty have ph.d or other terminal degrees in their fields. Accreditation: hampshire college is fully accredited by the new england association of schools and colleges. Membership in the association indicates that the institution has been carefully evaluated and found to meet standards agreed upon qualified evaluators.
$58,189,931 spentof which $36,195,399 as grants$46,557,723 earned by the program88% of program spendingIncludes the cost of health services, recreational athletics, dean of student's office expenses and other support services for students. Hampshire is one of 44 colleges profiled in colleges that change lives (ctcl) for "developing potential, values, initiative, and risk-taking" in students. Ctcl says of hampshire, "no college has students whose intellectual thyroids are more active or whose minds are more compassionately engaged." being part of hampshire is a whole new way of life, centered on community. Students are integral to every part of the college, serving on the board of trustees, hiring committees, budget committees), and more. 85% of students live on campus. Over 100 clubs, sports, and organizations.
$7,207,057 spent$11,666,049 earned by the program11% of program spendingSponsored research and restricted expenses: includes all private and federal funds received for sponsored research and restricted activities. Grants from corporations, foundations, and government agencies support educational programming, program development, individual faculty research, and endowed scholarships.
$816,104 spent$106,046 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $66,213,092.
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 2021 to 2022, from $116M to $99M (−15%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 3% · 2021 20% · 2022 17% · 2023 14% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
11% of HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES’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. 6 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
Jose Fuentes
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 39 funders to 54 funders, grant income rose $2.7M → $2.8M.
28 of 138 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 138 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
HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 58%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
72% 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 HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 31% · 2019 23% · 2020 32% · 2021 46% · 2022 68% · 2023 60% — 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
43% of HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
71% of HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES'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 $5.4M that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 25 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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
HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES's revenue fell 21% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 14 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Charitable Remainder Trusts(3) · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES?
- HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES (Massachusetts) receives grants from 138 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,308,410 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($8,253,563). 91 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES have?
- IRS filings report 138 organizations giving $18,308,410 in grants to HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES, 91 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $8,253,563 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES 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 138 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