New York · Nonprofit
ITHACA COLLEGE
ITHACA COLLEGE (New York) receives grants from 249 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,874,053 to it, the largest being THE HELEN GURLEY BROWN FOUNDATION ($5,279,572). 141 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $333M
- Funders on record
- 249
- Grants received
- $24M
- Net assets
- $739M
What Ithaca College does
Mission
Our mission is to educate, engage, and empower through theory, practice, and performance.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Instruction, research, and public service: Ithaca College is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational liberal arts college located in ithaca, new york. The princeton review consistently names the college among the best colleges in the nation, with "the best 391 colleges: 2026 edition" awarding the college high rankings on lists for best college newspaper, best college radio station, best college theater, and top 50 green colleges. In fall 2025, the college enrolled 4,205 undergraduate students and 586 graduate students. Roy h. Park school of communications: the school of communications, recognized as a leading undergraduate communications school, is known for its prominent student-run media vehicles, including: the ithacan, the college's official weekly newspaper; Ithaca College television; and the wicb radio station. The school also offers the los angeles program, an internship-based program that provides students with professional experience in their chosen field while taking industry-related courses at the james b. Pendleton center, located minutes from burbank and hollywood. School of business: accredited by the association of advance collegiate schools of business (aacsb), the…
$205,823,915 spentof which $125,608,906 as grants$238,149,055 earned by the program68% of program spendingAuxiliary services: auxiliary enterprises exist to furnish goods or services to students, faculty, staff, and other institutional departments. Auxiliary enterprises are managed to operate as self-supporting activities. Major auxiliary enterprises at the college include the following: dining services, which operates multiple residential and retail dining facilities located throughout the campus; the campus store, which purveys textbooks, apparel, supplies and accessories; and conference and event services, which provides a full range of meeting and event services.
$48,519,823 spentof which $1,383 as grants$62,683,032 earned by the program16% of program spendingStudent services: student services includes expenses incurred for offices of admissions and the registrar, student aid administration, and activities with the primary purpose of contributing to students' emotional and physical well-being and intellectual, cultural, and social development outside the context of the formal instruction program. Student services also includes the college's multitude of athletics programs. The college's varsity teams compete at the division iii level of the ncaa. The college is also a member of the eastern college athletic conference and the liberty league. Intercollegiate sports include baseball, basketball, crew, cross country running, field hockey, football, golf, gymnastics, lacrosse, sculling, soccer, softball, swimming & diving, tennis, track & field, volleyball, and wrestling. The college also has a large intramural sports program, in which approximately 20% of students participate, and which offers a variety of sports including soccer, volleyball, flag football, and basketball, in addition to single day events such as tennis tournaments and battleship. The college is also home to more than 60 club sports, many of which compete regularly against…
$29,088,665 spentof which $422,522 as grants$1,498,087 earned by the program10% of program spendingAcademic support:academic support includes expenses incurred to provide support services for the college's primary program service of instruction, research, and public service. It includes the following activities: the retention, preservation, and display of educational materials at the Ithaca College library, the handwerker gallery, and other gallery spaces; information technology services deployed at the college, particularly services within the themes of campus engagement and teaching & learning; academic administration and personnel providing administrative support and management direction to the primary program service; and separately budgeted support for course and curriculum development.
$21,448,443 spentof which $765,546 as grants7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $304,880,846.
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 $835M to $909M (+9%).
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% · 2020 2% · 2021 6% · 2022 2% · 2023 1% · 2024 2% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
5% of ITHACA COLLEGE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Nicole Eversley Bradwell
Executive director, admission
Board chair
John Neeson
Chair (as of 07/24)
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 52 funders to 83 funders, grant income rose $2.1M → $4.2M.
36 of 249 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 ITHACA COLLEGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 249 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
ITHACA COLLEGE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
34% 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 ITHACA COLLEGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 19% · 2019 40% · 2020 32% · 2021 23% · 2022 42% · 2023 58% — 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
37% of ITHACA COLLEGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
51% of ITHACA COLLEGE's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 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
ITHACA COLLEGE's funding base is broadening — from 52 funders to 83 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding ITHACA COLLEGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30.5M on record — $30.4M federal, $167k state.
- Department of Education$23.3M
- National Science Foundation$5.8M
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.1M
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$150k
- Department of State$75k
- NJ$149k
- CT$14k
- DE$3k
- FL$831
- VT$60
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 ITHACA 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
55%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ITHACA 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 ITHACA COLLEGE?
- ITHACA COLLEGE (New York) receives grants from 249 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,874,053 to it, the largest being THE HELEN GURLEY BROWN FOUNDATION ($5,279,572). 141 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ITHACA COLLEGE have?
- IRS filings report 249 organizations giving $23,874,053 in grants to ITHACA COLLEGE, 141 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ITHACA COLLEGE?
- THE HELEN GURLEY BROWN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,279,572 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ITHACA COLLEGE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 249 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