Utah · Nonprofit
JOHN ADAMS COLLEGE
JOHN ADAMS COLLEGE (Utah) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $108,473 to it, the largest being SORENSON LEGACY FOUNDATION ($60,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $105k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $108k
- Net assets
- $103k
What John Adams College does
Mission
John Adams College is an independent classical liberal arts institution in the American West for students seeking a deeper understanding of the world and their responsibility within it. Through rigorous study and Socratic mentorship, we cultivate intellectual depth, moral clarity, and the practical wisdom needed for meaningful careers, responsible citizenship, and leadership in civic and community life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Mount Liberty College was founded to educate our students in the classical liberal arts. We just completed our sixth year of classes and had an average of 25 students during this past year. Our students are earning a great education which will help them in any career path they choose to enter. We have graduates getting jobs and going on to graduate programs as well as becoming entrepreneurs.
$92,595 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $92,595.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $80k to $93k (+17%).
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.
17% of JOHN ADAMS COLLEGE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $21k → $21k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 JOHN ADAMS COLLEGE’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
JOHN ADAMS COLLEGE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 95% · 2021 50% · 2022 70% · 2023 71% — diversifying over time.
“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 JOHN ADAMS COLLEGE's grant income comes from Utah funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $173 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
JOHN ADAMS COLLEGE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like JOHN ADAMS 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 Utah
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JOHN ADAMS 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 JOHN ADAMS COLLEGE?
- JOHN ADAMS COLLEGE (Utah) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $108,473 to it, the largest being SORENSON LEGACY FOUNDATION ($60,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JOHN ADAMS COLLEGE have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $108,473 in grants to JOHN ADAMS COLLEGE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JOHN ADAMS COLLEGE?
- SORENSON LEGACY FOUNDATION 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 JOHN ADAMS COLLEGE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Utah. 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 2021–2025), 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