Massachusetts · Nonprofit
MILLS COLLEGE
MILLS COLLEGE (Massachusetts) receives grants from 118 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,287,599 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,855,942). 70 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $43M
- Funders on record
- 118
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $0
What Mills College does
Mission
Mills College is an independent liberal arts college for women and gender nonbinary students, with graduate programs for all genders. The college educates students to think critically and communicate responsibly and effectively, to accept the challenges of their creative visions, and to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to effect thoughtful changes in a global, multicultural society.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Programs
With a total enrollment of 868 students, representing 34 states and 12 countries, the college provides instruction, research, public service, and academic support to 461 undergraduate, 379 graduate, and 28 non-degree students. On the undergraduate side, students of color represent 66% of the class, and 44% are first-generation students; on the graduate side, students of color represent 59% of the class. The college's undergraduate hispanic population is 32%, making us eligible to declare as a hispanic-serving institution (hsi). The college provides financial aid, scholarships, and fellowships to both our undergraduate and graduate students. A total of 28% of our students receive cal grants, and 44% are eligible for pell grants. The percentage of graduate students receiving financial aid was 84%, with mills providing $2.8 million in scholarships and grants out of a total of $12.7 of any financial aid awarded to graduate students. Effective june 30, 2022, the organization merged with northeastern university.
$37,618,276 spentof which $12,052,819 as grants$20,693,586 earned by the program59% of program spendingThe college provides auxiliary services, including student housing, food services, and other student services.
$26,490,411 spentof which $36,433 as grants$6,479,737 earned by the program41% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2021 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $64,108,687.
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 2021 to 2022, from $350M to $0 (−100%).
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 4% · 2018 4% · 2019 5% · 2020 13% · 2021 10% · 2022 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 6 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
Katie Sanborn
Board chair
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 42 funders to 13 funders, grant income fell $2.7M → $171k.
31 of 118 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $200k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Alumnae Association of Mills College). These are real filings, and they are not money MILLS COLLEGE raised.
From the IRS filings of MILLS COLLEGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 118 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
MILLS COLLEGE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
59% 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 MILLS COLLEGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 20% · 2019 17% · 2020 25% · 2021 17% · 2022 30% · 2023 35% — 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
28% of MILLS COLLEGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
MILLS COLLEGE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 22 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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 MILLS COLLEGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $18.0M on record.
- Department of Education$17.7M
- National Science Foundation$318k
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 MILLS 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 Massachusetts
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
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 13 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Charitable Remainder Trusts (2) · corp_trust
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MILLS 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 MILLS COLLEGE?
- MILLS COLLEGE (Massachusetts) receives grants from 118 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,287,599 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,855,942). 70 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MILLS COLLEGE have?
- IRS filings report 118 organizations giving $13,287,599 in grants to MILLS COLLEGE, 70 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MILLS COLLEGE?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,855,942 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MILLS COLLEGE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 118 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