Massachusetts · Nonprofit
NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL
NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL (Massachusetts) receives grants from 120 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,589,012 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,100,214). 85 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $91M
- Funders on record
- 120
- Grants received
- $28M
- Net assets
- $352M
What Northfield Mount Hermon School does
Mission
Northfield mount hermon educates the head, heart and hands of our students. We engage their intellect, compassion, and talents, empowering them to act with humanity and purpose.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Northfield Mount Hermon School (nmh) gives young people an exceptional academic experience taught by expert, caring faculty. Nmh is a secular coed boarding and day school for 628 students in grades nine through twelve and post graduate. Our beautiful wooded campus borders the connecticut river in western massachusetts' pioneer valley. Here, we challenge students to think critically and to channel their talents to do good in the world, inspiring in them a sense of purpose at nmh, a constellation of adults interact with and support students throughout the day. Classes are small and extended to allow students to explore each subject in depth. Students take three major courses each semester for a total of six challenging college-preparatory courses per year. The school offers an extensive choice of sports teams, performing arts groups, clubs and study-abroad options. An estimated 132 students volunteer each term in service activities. Students also help run our working farm, and provide support for graduational credit in multiple departments, including food services and plant facilities.
$39,558,637 spentof which $11,481,870 as grants$47,347,433 earned by the program97% of program spendingNorthfield Mount Hermon School "nmh summer" offers programs for students wishing to enrich, supplement, or accelerate their school-year education. We have an extensive, comprehensive program that has existed in various forms for more than 100 years. Each summer, we gather as a community of 216 nmh summer students to engage in academic work and to learn from each other in many different ways. Our student population is diverse and globally inclined -- in the summer of 2024, 15 different countries and 15 states within the u.s. Were represented. Our 40 talented faculty members and 33 teaching fellows provided an outstanding experience for our students. Our goal, through all aspects of our comprehensive program, is to provide a valuable, life-changing experience for each student who joins us. For many students, nmh summer provides their first experience of a rigorous independent boarding school academic program and challenges them to a new level. Other students come from various peer schools and use their nmh summer program as an opportunity to further accelerate academic skills, advance in their coursework, gain confidence and independence, and prepare for college.
$1,041,283 spentof which $201,775 as grants$1,876,317 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $40,599,920.
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 2023 to 2024, from $333M to $395M (+19%).
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 1% · 2022 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
38% of NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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.
Board chair
Monie T Hardwick
Chair of the board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 37 funders to 54 funders, grant income rose $1.7M → $2.5M.
34 of 120 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 120 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
NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 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 NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 41% · 2019 57% · 2020 47% · 2021 45% · 2022 38% · 2023 28% — 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 NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
53% of NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL'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 $13M that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 22 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15M arriving through sponsors registered in 20 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
NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.1M on record.
- Department of Education$2.1M
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 NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL
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
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
53%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 6 related entities
- East Northfield Water Company · corp_trust
- Charitable Remainder Unitrust (1) · corp_trust
- Trust Under Agreement (Hibbard Trusts) (2) · corp_trust
- Charitable Remainder Annuity Trust (4) · corp_trust
- Charitable Remainder Unitrust (7) · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL?
- NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL (Massachusetts) receives grants from 120 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,589,012 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,100,214). 85 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 120 organizations giving $27,589,012 in grants to NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL, 85 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $5,100,214 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 120 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