Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
MUHLENBERG COLLEGE
MUHLENBERG COLLEGE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 167 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,755,133 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($7,183,000). 113 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $160M
- Funders on record
- 167
- Grants received
- $24M
- Net assets
- $526M
What Muhlenberg College does
Mission
Muhlenberg aims to help students become independent thinkers who are intellectually agile, characterized by a zest for reasoned and civil debate, knowledgeable about the achievements and traditions of diverse civilizations and cultures, able to express ideas with clarity and grace, committed to life-long learning, equipped with ethical and civic values and prepared for lives of leadership and service.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Instruction and research expenditures for 2,063 full-time undergraduate students. The college offers 40 majors in the humanities, fine arts, social sciences and natural sciences, in addition to strong pre-professional programs in such areas as pre-health, pre-law, pre-theology, business and education. Muhlenberg professors are experts in their fields. They conduct cutting-edge research, publish books and articles, are quoted in the media, present at conferences, and win awards. Muhlenberg professors are the force behind the college's unmatched connectivity. They drive the rich and rewarding curriculum, which connects and combines classical liberal arts with outstanding pre-professional study.
$40,662,215 spent$104,728,309 earned by the program27% of program spendingOther program services: library, depreciation, interest, non-cash financial aid, amortization of bond settlement costs (2,063 full-time undergraduate students). Student services including recruitment for admission, counseling, a nationally recognized peer tutoring program, career development, financial aid administration, and student record administration. All of these services contribute to the sense of connectivity experienced by muhlenberg students while interacting in the campus community.
$89,277,175 spentof which $65,392,866 as grants60% of program spendingAuxiliary services: housing of 1,750 students; meals for approximately 1,625 students; and a bookstore for approximately 2,063 students and 808 employees.
$19,003,000 spent13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $148,942,390.
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 $528M to $587M (+11%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 1% · 2021 4% · 2022 1% · 2023 2% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
6% of MUHLENBERG COLLEGE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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 46 funders to 77 funders, grant income rose $1.6M → $3.4M.
23 of 167 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 MUHLENBERG COLLEGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 167 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
MUHLENBERG COLLEGE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
64% 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 MUHLENBERG COLLEGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 16% · 2019 20% · 2020 69% · 2021 34% · 2022 41% · 2023 29% — 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 MUHLENBERG COLLEGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
60% of MUHLENBERG COLLEGE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $9.5M that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 25 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
MUHLENBERG COLLEGE is better cushioned 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 MUHLENBERG COLLEGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9.6M on record — $9.5M federal, $118k state.
- Department of Education$8.2M
- National Science Foundation$1.3M
- Environmental Protection Agency$25k
- FEDERAL$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 MUHLENBERG 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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 8 states
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Oscar & Mildred Larson Scholarship Trust · exempt
- Charitable Gift Annuity Trusts (2) · corp_trust
- Charitable Remainder Unitrusts (8) · corp_trust
- Pooled Income Fund · corp_trust
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MUHLENBERG 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 MUHLENBERG COLLEGE?
- MUHLENBERG COLLEGE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 167 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,755,133 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($7,183,000). 113 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MUHLENBERG COLLEGE have?
- IRS filings report 167 organizations giving $23,755,133 in grants to MUHLENBERG COLLEGE, 113 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MUHLENBERG COLLEGE?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,183,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MUHLENBERG 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 167 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