Vermont · Nonprofit
Norwich University
Norwich University (Vermont) receives grants from 133 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,783,506 to it, the largest being TAWANI CHARITABLE DISTRIBUTION FUND ($7,769,000). 76 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $192M
- Funders on record
- 133
- Grants received
- $25M
- Net assets
- $439M
What Norwich University does
Mission
Norwich's mission is to give our youth an education that shall be American in its character.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Instructional - student body of over 3,000 graduate and undergraduate students. Library and computer center servicing student body, faculty and staff. Web-based instructional platform supporting over 1,000 graduate and undergraduate students. Students receive campus-based grants, scholarships and awards coupled with aid from federally funded programs.
$154,756,984 spentof which $80,454,336 as grants$138,712,010 earned by the program88% of program spendingAuxiliary enterprises and other student services include cafeteria, dormitories, bookstore and uniform shop servicing the undergraduate population of over 2,000 undergraduate students.
$21,889,088 spent$11,312,357 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $176,646,072.
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 $451M to $568M (+26%).
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 2% · 2018 1% · 2019 2% · 2020 2% · 2021 8% · 2022 10% · 2023 9% · 2024 14% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
19% of Norwich University’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Alfred Gobeille
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 51 funders, grant income rose $537k → $2.3M.
21 of 133 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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: $143k from 8 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Council of Independent Colleges). These are real filings, and they are not money Norwich University raised.
From the IRS filings of Norwich University’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 133 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
Norwich University has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
34% 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 Norwich University.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 84% · 2019 78% · 2020 21% · 2021 40% · 2022 21% · 2023 18% — 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
45% of Norwich University's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
Norwich University draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside Vermont, across 28 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
Norwich University's funding base is broadening — from 22 funders to 51 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding Norwich University receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $106.6M on record — $96.1M federal, $10.5M state.
- Department of Defense$50.8M
- Department of Commerce$16.2M
- Department of Education$15.7M
- National Science Foundation$12.0M
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.1M
- Department of Homeland Security$193k
- VT$10.5M
- NJ$4k
- MA$2k
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 Norwich University
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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 12 states
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Norwich University Applied Research Institutes · exempt
- Charitable Remainder Unitrust · corp_trust
- Charitable Trust · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Norwich University: 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 Norwich University?
- Norwich University (Vermont) receives grants from 133 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,783,506 to it, the largest being TAWANI CHARITABLE DISTRIBUTION FUND ($7,769,000). 76 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Norwich University have?
- IRS filings report 133 organizations giving $24,783,506 in grants to Norwich University, 76 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Norwich University?
- TAWANI CHARITABLE DISTRIBUTION FUND is the largest funder on record, with $7,769,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Norwich University find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 133 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