Tennessee · Nonprofit
MARYVILLE COLLEGE
MARYVILLE COLLEGE (Tennessee) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,389,027 to it, the largest being EAST TENNESSEE FOUNDATION ($4,129,213). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $65M
- Funders on record
- 62
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $178M
What Maryville College does
Mission
Maryville College prepares students for lives of citizenship and leadership as we challenge each one to search for truth, grow in wisdom, work for justice, and dedicate a life of creativity and service to the peoples of the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Higher education: Maryville College is a four year liberal arts college. The institution provides four year degree granting programs. In fiscal year 2025 there were 1138 total undergraduates with approximately 75% living on campus.
$47,550,747 spentof which $24,748,555 as grants$42,733,228 earned by the program96% of program spendingThe clayton center for the arts is a two building complex and plaza located on a part of the Maryville College campus. The buildings are owned by the industrial development board of blount county and are leased to the city of maryville and the city of alcoa. The cities in turn have an operating agreement with the college to manage and operate the facility. The center is a place to present outstanding artists, produce worthy art, develop both local artists and their audiences and provide space for the presentation of artistic and cultural events by outside entities. It is also where the college's fine arts division is located.
$2,114,702 spent$44,270 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $49,665,449.
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 2017 to 2018, from $155M to $183M (+18%).
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 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 3% · 2021 10% · 2022 9% · 2023 2% · 2024 3% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
12% of MARYVILLE 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. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $3.4M.
15 of 62 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 MARYVILLE COLLEGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 62 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
MARYVILLE COLLEGE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
54% 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 MARYVILLE COLLEGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 60% · 2019 29% · 2020 20% · 2021 37% · 2022 27% · 2023 47% — growing more concentrated.
“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
50% of MARYVILLE 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
62% of MARYVILLE COLLEGE's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.3M 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
MARYVILLE COLLEGE's funding base is broadening — from 17 funders to 26 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding MARYVILLE COLLEGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $14.2M on record.
- Department of Education$11.5M
- National Science Foundation$1.1M
- Department of Justice$600k
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$500k
- Department of Health and Human Services$306k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$118k
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 MARYVILLE 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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
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 MARYVILLE 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 MARYVILLE COLLEGE?
- MARYVILLE COLLEGE (Tennessee) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,389,027 to it, the largest being EAST TENNESSEE FOUNDATION ($4,129,213). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MARYVILLE COLLEGE have?
- IRS filings report 62 organizations giving $13,389,027 in grants to MARYVILLE COLLEGE, 40 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARYVILLE COLLEGE?
- EAST TENNESSEE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,129,213 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARYVILLE COLLEGE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 62 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