Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
LAFAYETTE COLLEGE
LAFAYETTE COLLEGE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 276 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,628,333 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($7,252,156). 184 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $335M
- Funders on record
- 276
- Grants received
- $62M
- Net assets
- $1.5B
What Lafayette College does
Mission
Chartered in 1826, Lafayette College is dedicated to excellence in undergraduate education. Students are engaged in a transformative educational experience that bridges the liberal arts, engineering, and interdisciplinary study. The college fosters (continued in sch o) intellectual inquiry, artistic exploration, scholarship, and personal growth in a vibrant, diverse, and inclusive community. Lafayette students become critical thinkers, creative problem-solvers, and responsible citizens of the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Lafayette College is a liberal arts college offering bachelor of arts engineering, natural sciences, and social sciences. In fall 2024, the 2,750 students came from 44 states and 47 countries. The student-to-faculty ratio at the college is approximately 10 to 1. Of the 259 full-time faculty, 252 hold a doctorate or other terminal degree. Approximately 63% of the students attending Lafayette College receive financial assistance. 718 students were awarded an undergraduate degree. Lafayette College has a four-year graduation rate of 77% and six-year graduation rate of 85%. Approximately 90% of the college's graduates were employed, in graduate school, or secured internships within 6 months after graduation.
$214,602,676 spentof which $74,332,949 as grants$222,680,307 earned by the program84% of program spendingAs a residential college, lafayette students complement their academic. Scholarship with a myriad of opportunities to connect with one another and learn from the large world represented on the college's campus. As part of their experience at a residential college, lafayette students are deeply engaged academically and have significant opportunities toengage in a vast offering of extracurricular and co-curricular possibilities. Lafayette College offers more than 150 student clubs and organizations, 23 ncaa division 1 athletic programs, and numerous experiences in the fine arts and performing arts all of which are complemented by a strong student life program that enhances the lafayette experience beyond the classroom.
$40,304,687 spent$41,210,445 earned by the program16% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $254,907,363.
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 $1.4B to $1.6B (+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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 0% · 2020 1% · 2021 2% · 2022 3% · 2023 2% · 2024 2% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of LAFAYETTE COLLEGE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (14% 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
Robert E Sell
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 61 funders to 128 funders, grant income rose $5.7M → $6.8M.
39 of 276 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 LAFAYETTE COLLEGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 276 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
LAFAYETTE COLLEGE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
57% 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 LAFAYETTE COLLEGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 40% · 2019 21% · 2020 23% · 2021 21% · 2022 13% · 2023 20% — 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.
How long its funders stay
52% of LAFAYETTE COLLEGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
LAFAYETTE COLLEGE draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 33 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $29M 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
LAFAYETTE COLLEGE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 684 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding LAFAYETTE COLLEGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $17.3M on record — $17.2M federal, $125k state.
- Department of Education$6.9M
- National Science Foundation$6.4M
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.5M
- Department of Defense$974k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$200k
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$162k
- NJ$124k
- FL$648
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 LAFAYETTE 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 7 states
Part of a family of 8 related entities
- John T Gallaher Charitable Trust · exempt
- Charles W Blair Testamentary Trust B · exempt
- Church Presbyterian Church USA Foundation - Sigler · exempt
- Church Presbyterian Church USA Foundation - Raymond Music · exempt
- Charitable Remainder Unitrusts (23) · corp_trust
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LAFAYETTE 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 LAFAYETTE COLLEGE?
- LAFAYETTE COLLEGE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 276 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,628,333 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($7,252,156). 184 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LAFAYETTE COLLEGE have?
- IRS filings report 276 organizations giving $61,628,333 in grants to LAFAYETTE COLLEGE, 184 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LAFAYETTE COLLEGE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $7,252,156 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LAFAYETTE COLLEGE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 276 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