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Miles College Inc

Miles College Inc (Alabama) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,407,595 to it, the largest being UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ($6,403,501). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$34M
Funders on record
48
Grants received
$11M
Net assets
$81M
23/48 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Miles College Inc does

Mission

To motivate and direct its students to seek holistic development that leads to intellectual, ethical, spiritual, and service-oriented lives.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. To sustain a learning community in which students can prepare academically, socially, and spiritually for leadership in a complex, diverse and rapidly changing world.

    $22,998,696 spentof which $4,120,289 as grants$15,940,407 earned by the program
    85% of program spending
  2. Auxiliary enterprises support the Colleges mission of providing quality educational opportunities. These services include, but are not limited to food service, campus housing, campus post office, vending, campus stores and athletics.

    $4,031,073 spent$5,013,145 earned by the program
    15% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $27,029,769.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($36M) Expenses 100 ($36M) Net assets 100 ($57M)2018 Revenue 95 ($34M) Expenses 99 ($35M) Net assets 100 ($57M)2019 Revenue 96 ($34M) Expenses 101 ($36M) Net assets 101 ($58M)2020 Revenue 104 ($37M) Expenses 99 ($35M) Net assets 106 ($61M)2021 Revenue 119 ($43M) Expenses 100 ($35M) Net assets 136 ($78M)2022 Revenue 138 ($50M) Expenses 129 ($46M) Net assets 137 ($78M)2023 Revenue 96 ($34M) Expenses 95 ($34M) Net assets 136 ($78M)2024 Revenue 93 ($33M) Expenses 93 ($33M) Net assets 142 ($81M)2025 Revenue 94 ($34M) Expenses 102 ($36M) Net assets 142 ($81M)
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Revenue (94)Expenses (102)Net assets (142)Peer revenue range

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 $86M to $96M (+11%).

$95M
$94M
$92M
$86M
$96M
$96M
$98M
$100M
$104M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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2018
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 14% · 2018 12% · 2019 17% · 2020 14% · 2021 30% · 2022 44% · 2023 28% · 2024 15% · 2025 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

32% of Miles College Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,251 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$298k
’17
−$832k
’18
−$1.6M
’19
$2.1M
’20
$7.2M
’21
$3.9M
’22
$478k
’23
$375k
’24
−$2.5M
’25
1.0
months of
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

Bishop Clarence K Heath

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed252025282828333630
Joined·+0+8+7+4+2+12+5+3
No longer listed·53442729
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $458k → $1.6M.

6 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 Miles College Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 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

Miles College Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

77% 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 Miles College Inc.

56%
largest funder
74%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 92% · 2019 89% · 2020 37% · 2021 49% · 2022 52% · 2023 54% — 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 Miles College Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

Miles College Inc draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside Alabama, across 12 states in all.

WA
IL
NY
IN
CA
MO
SC
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Alabama out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $273k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Miles College Inc's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 25 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−7% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Government funding Miles College Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $78.9M on record.

Federal$78.9M
grants $78.9Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Education$74.9M
  • Department of the Interior$1.5M
  • National Science Foundation$986k
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$850k
  • Small Business Administration$700k

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 25%Fundraising 1%

Governance

23
board members
96%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

AL

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Miles Law School · exempt
  • Miles College Community Development · exempt
  • Miles Foundation Service Corporation · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds Miles College Inc?
Miles College Inc (Alabama) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,407,595 to it, the largest being UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ($6,403,501). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Miles College Inc have?
IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $11,407,595 in grants to Miles College Inc, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Miles College Inc?
UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,403,501 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Miles College Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 48 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing