Tennessee · Nonprofit
Intercollegiate Center For Classical Studies
Intercollegiate Center For Classical Studies (Tennessee) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,388 to it, the largest being FENWICK COMMUNITY FUND ($60,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.1M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $83k
- Net assets
- $18M
What Intercollegiate Center For Classical Studies does
Mission
The Intercollegiate Center For Classical Studies in rome provides undergraduate students with an immersive, academically rigorous study abroad program in classical studies, offering unparalleled access to the ancient world through site-based learning that integrates history, literature, language, archaeology, and art.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies ("the Centro") is a premier academic program based in Rome, Italy, offering undergraduate students from North American colleges and universities a rigorous, place-based curriculum in ancient history, archaeology, Greek and Latin literature, cultural heritage management, the Italian language, and Renaissance and Baroque art. Founded in 1965 and incorporated as a nonprofit in 2004, the Centro celebrated 60 years of immersive classical education in 2025. To date, over 3,500 students have participated in this life-changing experience, many of whom describe their time at the Centro as foundational to their personal and intellectual development. Alumni have gone on to careers in education, public service, academia, the arts, and beyond-often crediting the Centro for instilling in them a deeper understanding of culture, critical thinking, and global awareness. What sets the Centro apart is its interdisciplinary and place-based approach: students learn directly within Rome's extraordinary historical landscape, engaging daily with iconic archaeological and artistic landmarks under the guidance of leading scholars from top U.S. institutions.…
$1,926,974 spentof which $148,182 as grants$2,781,879 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,926,974.
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 2024 to 2025, from $15M to $20M (+33%).
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: 2022 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
38% of Intercollegiate Center For Classical Studies’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Jeremy Hartnett
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $6k → $41.
5 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Intercollegiate Center For Classical Studies’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
Intercollegiate Center For Classical Studies leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 Intercollegiate Center For Classical Studies.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 54% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of Intercollegiate Center For Classical Studies'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $83k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Intercollegiate Center For Classical Studies runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Intercollegiate Center For Classical Studies
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 25 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Intercollegiate Center For Classical Studies: 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 Intercollegiate Center For Classical Studies?
- Intercollegiate Center For Classical Studies (Tennessee) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,388 to it, the largest being FENWICK COMMUNITY FUND ($60,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Intercollegiate Center For Classical Studies have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $83,388 in grants to Intercollegiate Center For Classical Studies, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Intercollegiate Center For Classical Studies?
- FENWICK COMMUNITY FUND is the largest funder on record, with $60,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Intercollegiate Center For Classical Studies find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 5 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