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HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION

HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION (Virginia) receives grants from 183 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,106,485 to it, the largest being ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($11,383,000). 125 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.

$77M
Revenue FY2025
183
Funders on record
$32M
Grants received
$419M
Net assets
125/183 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%

Against its field

HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin12% · above the median
Months of reserve5.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($88M) Expenses 100 ($56M) Net assets 100 ($273M)2018 Revenue 63 ($56M) Expenses 100 ($56M) Net assets 100 ($274M)2019 Revenue 65 ($58M) Expenses 105 ($58M) Net assets 98 ($267M)2020 Revenue 64 ($57M) Expenses 102 ($57M) Net assets 93 ($254M)2021 Revenue 75 ($66M) Expenses 100 ($56M) Net assets 112 ($306M)2022 Revenue 156 ($138M) Expenses 110 ($61M) Net assets 128 ($350M)2023 Revenue 71 ($63M) Expenses 111 ($62M) Net assets 132 ($360M)2024 Revenue 79 ($70M) Expenses 118 ($66M) Net assets 140 ($383M)2025 Revenue 88 ($77M) Expenses 123 ($68M) Net assets 154 ($419M)
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Revenue (88)Expenses (123)Net assets (154)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,251 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$32M
17
$236k
18
$676k
19
$429k
20
$11M
21
$76M
22
$637k
23
$4.4M
24
$9.0M
25
5.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

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.

35%
largest funder
47%
top three
~7
effective funders

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; 68% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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, 80% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 30 states.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Virginia out of state home

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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 183 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

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.

Federal$6.1M
grants $6.1Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Education$4.7M
  • National Science Foundation$1.1M
  • Department of Justice$300k
State$3k
Top programs
  • 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

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Virginia

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 16%Fundraising 2%

Governance

26
board members
96%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

VA

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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION?
HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION (Virginia) receives grants from 183 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,106,485 to it, the largest being ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($11,383,000). 125 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 $32,106,485 in grants to HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION, 125 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.

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 183funders 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 September 23, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing