Iowa · Nonprofit
LORAS COLLEGE
LORAS COLLEGE (Iowa) receives grants from 155 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,975,238 to it, the largest being THE GALLAGHER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($3,124,895). 90 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $72M
- Funders on record
- 155
- Grants received
- $20M
- Net assets
- $54M
What Loras College does
Mission
Loras, as a catholic liberal arts college, creates a community of active learners, reflective thinkers, ethical decision makers and responsible contributors in diverse professional, social and religious roles.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Scholarships and grants to students.
$27,187,767 spentof which $27,187,767 as grants42% of program spendingInstruction and academic support provided to full and part time students (1,170 full time equivalent students).
$14,329,785 spent$43,126,494 earned by the program22% of program spendingStudent services, including student development, intercollegiate athletics and other services.
$11,257,659 spent$4,184,747 earned by the program17% of program spendingOther program services include auxiliary programs such as housing and food service, research, pubic service and institutional support.
$12,503,835 spent$6,150,431 earned by the program19% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $65,279,046.
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.
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 $126M to $115M (−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% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 6% · 2022 11% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Richard Scalise
Chair, regent
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 37 funders to 57 funders, grant income rose $1.6M → $2.5M.
33 of 155 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 LORAS COLLEGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 155 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
LORAS COLLEGE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% 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 LORAS COLLEGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 27% · 2019 15% · 2020 28% · 2021 19% · 2022 26% · 2023 20% — 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.
How long its funders stay
39% of LORAS COLLEGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
50% of LORAS COLLEGE's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 20 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.
Government funding LORAS COLLEGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.4M on record.
- Department of Education$6.5M
- National Science Foundation$649k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$231k
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 LORAS 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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Perpetual Trusts (1) · corp_trust
- Charitable Remainder Unitrust (3) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LORAS 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 LORAS COLLEGE?
- LORAS COLLEGE (Iowa) receives grants from 155 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,975,238 to it, the largest being THE GALLAGHER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($3,124,895). 90 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LORAS COLLEGE have?
- IRS filings report 155 organizations giving $19,975,238 in grants to LORAS COLLEGE, 90 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LORAS COLLEGE?
- THE GALLAGHER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,124,895 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LORAS COLLEGE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 155 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