Virginia · Nonprofit
HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION
HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION (Virginia) receives grants from 183 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,121,435 to it, the largest being ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($11,383,000). 126 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $77M
- Funders on record
- 183
- Grants received
- $32M
- Net assets
- $419M
What Hollins University Corporation does
Mission
Hollins university is an independent liberal arts university dedicated to academic excellence and humane values. Hollins university offers undergraduate liberal arts education for women, selected graduate programs for men and women, and community outreach initiatives. The hollins community sustains talented students engaged in challenging study, and productive scholars and artists devoted to teaching and to the advancement of knowledge. The hallmarks of a hollins education are creativity and effective self-expression, problem solving and critical thinking skills, and independent inquiry and the free exchange of ideas. Our university motto, levavi oculos, calls us to leadership and service in accord with the hollins values and traditions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Hollins university is a nonprofit institution of higher education offering undergraduate, graduate, exchange, and abroad education programs. These programs prepare our students for lives of active learning and achievement.
$56,126,571 spentof which $21,997,425 as grants$39,125,978 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $56,126,571.
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 2020 to 2021, from $260M to $310M (+19%).
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 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 2% · 2021 3% · 2022 2% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
33% of HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Debra Meade
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 58 funders to 90 funders, grant income rose $825k → $5.2M.
42 of 183 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 183 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
HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 35% 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
68% 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 HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 16% · 2018 12% · 2019 20% · 2020 47% · 2021 36% · 2022 52% · 2023 47% — 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
54% of HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
60% of HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION'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 $13M that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 29 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19M arriving through sponsors registered in 21 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
HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.1M on record — $6.1M federal, $3k state.
- Department of Education$4.7M
- National Science Foundation$1.1M
- Department of Justice$300k
- DISTRIBUTION TO INDIVIDUALS$3k
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 HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: 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 HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION?
- HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION (Virginia) receives grants from 183 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,121,435 to it, the largest being ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($11,383,000). 126 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 183 organizations giving $32,121,435 in grants to HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION, 126 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION?
- ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $11,383,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 183 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