New York · Nonprofit
PAUL SMITHS COLLEGE
PAUL SMITHS COLLEGE (New York) receives grants from 108 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,564,501 to it, the largest being ADIRONDACK FOUNDATION ($691,733). 53 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $42M
- Funders on record
- 108
- Grants received
- $5.6M
- Net assets
- $60M
What Paul Smiths College does
Mission
Higher education: "the real value of a psc education is in the emphasis on not just learning something, but in actually doing it." the paul smith's college community provides a dynamic educational environment which encourages students to be actively engaged in their own learning experience by fostering creative, ethical and intellectual growth.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Postsecondary education, general/other: instruction - to provide higher education to men and women in the arts and sciences, with authority to confer the degrees of associates in arts (aa), associates in applied science (aas) and bachelor of science (bs) in conformity with the regents of nys and the commissioner of education. Approximately 600 students.
$32,572,110 spentof which $12,133,599 as grants$18,909,778 earned by the program79% of program spendingPostsecondary education, general/other: auxilliary enterprises - the operation and maintenance of the residence halls, cafeteria and campus store that serve the students.
$8,614,291 spent$8,614,291 earned by the program21% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $41,186,401.
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 2021 to 2022, from $83M to $77M (−7%).
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 6% · 2018 7% · 2019 10% · 2020 18% · 2021 18% · 2022 17% · 2023 9% · 2024 13% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
18% of PAUL SMITHS COLLEGE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 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
Mark Dzwonczyk
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 37 funders, grant income rose $489k → $544k.
19 of 108 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 PAUL SMITHS COLLEGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 108 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
PAUL SMITHS COLLEGE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
50% 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 PAUL SMITHS COLLEGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 48% · 2019 17% · 2020 24% · 2021 18% · 2022 23% · 2023 16% — 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
49% of PAUL SMITHS COLLEGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
59% of PAUL SMITHS COLLEGE's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
PAUL SMITHS COLLEGE's funding base is broadening — from 20 funders to 37 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding PAUL SMITHS COLLEGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $11.0M on record — $11.0M federal, $50 state.
- Department of Education$7.4M
- National Science Foundation$1.4M
- Department of Agriculture$1.2M
- Environmental Protection Agency$594k
- Department of Justice$300k
- Department of Commerce$210k
- Registration & Identification$50
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 PAUL SMITHS 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Green & White Hospitality LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PAUL SMITHS COLLEGE?
- PAUL SMITHS COLLEGE (New York) receives grants from 108 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,564,501 to it, the largest being ADIRONDACK FOUNDATION ($691,733). 53 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PAUL SMITHS COLLEGE have?
- IRS filings report 108 organizations giving $5,564,501 in grants to PAUL SMITHS COLLEGE, 53 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PAUL SMITHS COLLEGE?
- ADIRONDACK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $691,733 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PAUL SMITHS COLLEGE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 108 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