Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
LYCOMING COLLEGE
LYCOMING COLLEGE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 101 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,470,978 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($894,848). 61 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $87M
- Funders on record
- 101
- Grants received
- $5.5M
- Net assets
- $262M
What Lycoming College does
Mission
The mission of Lycoming College is to provide a distinguished baccalaureate education in the liberal arts and sciences within a coeducational, supportive, and residential setting.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Lycoming College is a four-year liberal arts based, co-educational, independent college whose primary function is the presentation of formal instruction. The college has a regular faculty, a regularly scheduled curriculum (consisting of fall, spring, may and summer term), and a regularly enrolled student body in attendance at its campus located in williamsport, pennsylvania. The college's areas of concentration include bachelor of arts degrees in 32 major fields and bachelor of science degrees in 5 major fields. Program services of the college include the cost of instruction, academic support, student services, institutional support, and scholarships. Continued on schedule othe cost of instruction includes expenses contributing directly to the presentation of formal instruction for the 76 aforementioned majors.academic support is all expenses related to those areas of the college such as the college library, computer center, tutoring services, the institution for management studies, humanities research center, and center for academic experiences. Student services are all of the expenses specifically related to providing "our customer", the student, with a complete college…
$70,800,392 spentof which $35,734,420 as grants$60,199,415 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $70,800,392.
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 $280M to $328M (+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 1% · 2020 4% · 2021 5% · 2022 7% · 2023 4% · 2024 2% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
8% of LYCOMING COLLEGE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
D Mark Fultz
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 23 funders to 30 funders, grant income fell $508k → $426k.
17 of 101 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $724k from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest First Community Foundation Partnership of Pennsylvania). These are real filings, and they are not money LYCOMING COLLEGE raised.
From the IRS filings of LYCOMING COLLEGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 101 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
LYCOMING COLLEGE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
40% 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 LYCOMING COLLEGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 46% · 2019 32% · 2020 42% · 2021 34% · 2022 24% · 2023 21% — 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
38% of LYCOMING COLLEGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
LYCOMING COLLEGE draws 73% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 20 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
LYCOMING COLLEGE receives grants from 101 organizations whose IRS filings report $5.5M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding LYCOMING COLLEGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $11.1M on record — $11.0M federal, $104k state.
- Department of Education$7.8M
- National Science Foundation$2.1M
- Department of Justice$1.0M
- National Endowment for the Humanities$150k
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
- NJ$75k
- DE$29k
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 LYCOMING 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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
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 LYCOMING 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 LYCOMING COLLEGE?
- LYCOMING COLLEGE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 101 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,470,978 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($894,848). 61 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LYCOMING COLLEGE have?
- IRS filings report 101 organizations giving $5,470,978 in grants to LYCOMING COLLEGE, 61 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LYCOMING COLLEGE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $894,848 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LYCOMING 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.
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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 101 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