Maine · Nonprofit
The President and Trustees of Colby College
The President and Trustees of Colby College (Maine) receives grants from 312 organizations whose IRS filings report $268,102,981 to it, the largest being HAROLD ALFOND FOUNDATION ($97,048,112). 202 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $354M
- Funders on record
- 312
- Grants received
- $268M
- Net assets
- $2.1B
What The President and Trustees of Colby College does
Mission
to provide a rigorous and transformative liberal arts education that prepares students to become thoughtful, engaged citizens.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Post secondary education: Instruction of 2,407 undergraduate students in 2024/25. In the 2024/25 year, 619 students graduated, and an estimated 364 students studied away. 88% completed the degree within five years; the student/faculty ratio is 10:1.
$261,330,972 spentof which $74,302,194 as grants$204,477,000 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $261,330,972.
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 $1.9B to $2.2B (+21%).
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 2% · 2022 1% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
17% of The President and Trustees of Colby College’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
Alison Beyea
Executive Director of the Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs
Board chair
Jane Powers
Chair of the Board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 69 funders to 137 funders, grant income rose $20M → $29M.
44 of 312 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 The President and Trustees of Colby College’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 312 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
The President and Trustees of Colby College leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
26% 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 The President and Trustees of Colby College.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 68% · 2019 55% · 2020 42% · 2021 26% · 2022 37% · 2023 41% — 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
53% of The President and Trustees of Colby College's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
68% of The President and Trustees of Colby College's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $66M arriving through sponsors registered in 22 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
The President and Trustees of Colby 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 The President and Trustees of Colby College receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $25.6M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$10.5M
- National Science Foundation$7.4M
- Department of Education$6.8M
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$551k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$187k
- Department of Health and Human Services$25k
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 The President and Trustees of Colby 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 Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% 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
Part of a family of 9 related entities
- Elm City LLC · disregarded
- Elm City 9 LLC · disregarded
- Elm City 173 LLC · disregarded
- Elm City 13 LLC · disregarded
- Elm City 93 LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds The President and Trustees of Colby College?
- The President and Trustees of Colby College (Maine) receives grants from 312 organizations whose IRS filings report $268,102,981 to it, the largest being HAROLD ALFOND FOUNDATION ($97,048,112). 202 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The President and Trustees of Colby College have?
- IRS filings report 312 organizations giving $268,102,981 in grants to The President and Trustees of Colby College, 202 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The President and Trustees of Colby College?
- HAROLD ALFOND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $97,048,112 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The President and Trustees of Colby College find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. 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 312 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