California · Nonprofit
POMONA COLLEGE
POMONA COLLEGE (California) receives grants from 247 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,547,408 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($12,933,838). 162 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $502M
- Funders on record
- 247
- Grants received
- $62M
- Net assets
- $3.8B
What Pomona College does
Mission
Throughout its history, Pomona College has educated men and women of exceptional promise. We gather individuals, regardless of financial circumstances, into a small residential community that is strongly rooted in southern california yet global in its orientation. Through close ties among a diverse group of faculty, staff and classmates, pomona students are inspired to engage in the probing inquiry and creative learning that enable them to identify and address their intellectual passions. This experience will continue to guide their contributions as the next generation of leaders, scholars, artists and engaged members of society to fulfill the vision of the college's founders: to bear their added riches in trust for all.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Instruction and research: consistently ranked as one of the top national liberal arts colleges according to u.s. News and world report, Pomona College offers an academic program that encompasses the major fields of the arts, humanities, natural sciences and social sciences. Learning is encouraged through theory-building and empirical research, historical and linguistic analysis, inquiry and ethical debate. Pomona's liberal arts curriculum, small classes, residential campus and sophisticated laboratories and studios prepare students for lives of personal fulfillment and social responsibility in a global context. Pomona graduates not only receive excellent lifelong preparation for a wide range of careers, but also are encouraged to develop the rational discrimination, aesthetic appreciation, compassion and understanding that only knowledge can foster. In 2024-25, 18 recipients from Pomona College were awarded fulbright awards, placing pomona as a top producer of fulbright students among bachelor's institutions, as reported by the chronicle of higher education. Pomona offers 48 fields of studies / majors in the natural sciences, humanities, social sciences fine arts and…
$149,928,355 spentof which $63,203,345 as grants$148,545,648 earned by the program53% of program spendingAuxiliary enterprises: a majority of Pomona College students reside in campus housing throughout their college career, a testament to the quality of life on campus. The scale and arrangement of pomona's 14 residence halls encourage students to get to know each other. Ranging in size from 60 to 250 students, with an average of about 120 each, these coeducational residences are large enough to bring together students with a variety of interests and experiences, but small enough to allow residents to work in cohesive groups. Pomona provides self-operated dining and catering services at three dining halls. Pomona's goal is to serve food that is healthy, fresh and delicious and that is produced in a just and sustainable manner, while minimizing waste through responsible disposal and composting. The instructional and extra-curricular programs are further supported by bridges auditorium, a performing arts center that seats 2,500, and seaver theatre, a comprehensive theatre complex featuring a 350-seat auditorium and 100-seat experimental theatre space. Athletic facilities include a center for athletics, recreation and wellness, the haldeman aquatics center, and fields for softball,…
$42,745,732 spent$263,383 earned by the program15% of program spendingStudent services: Pomona College offers students a wide variety of programs to extend their education beyond the classroom, including more than 300 student organizations across the claremont colleges consortium, sports, the student life newspaper, student government among other opportunities to engage with the campus community. The college also assists students with orientation, registration and academic counseling. From their first year at pomona, students can turn to the career development office (cdo), which provides resources, services and career advising. Students also can apply for the cdo's program of summer internships in the u.s. And abroad. In addition, pomona students can study away from campus either in the u.s. Or abroad through the extensive programming of the college's office of international & domestic programs. The claremont colleges' student health services stresses preventative medicine and health awareness, while monsour counseling and psychological services provide mental health and wellness services. Pomona College also provides students with 24/7 on demand access to medical and mental health services. The interfaith office of the chaplains directs the…
$32,163,273 spent$1,931,762 earned by the program11% of program spendingOther-public service, institutional support, academic support: in order to facilitate our program of instruction and research, Pomona College provides institutional support through our business office, alumni relations, information technologies, communications, major gifts/giving and staff educational support to keep our staff informed of new and developing ways to advance our primary mission. The draper center for community partnerships is the college's main avenue for fostering mutually beneficial exchanges among community members, students, faculty and staff in order to support educational outreach initiatives, community-based research and learning, and other community engagement activities. The draper center's signature program, the Pomona College academy for youth success (pays), is a college access program for high school students that aims to increase the pool of students prepared to enter highly selective colleges and universities. Through the draper center, pomona students can explore an assortment of community and volunteer opportunities, including collaborative theatre with local middle-school students, food rescue for local shelters, educational outreach, volunteering…
$56,151,644 spent$1,467,035 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $280,989,004.
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 $3.2B to $3.9B (+25%).
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 2% · 2022 1% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
10% of POMONA COLLEGE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Janet Inskeep Benton
Trustee/board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 72 funders to 104 funders, grant income fell $7.7M → $6.3M.
39 of 247 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 POMONA COLLEGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 247 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
POMONA COLLEGE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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
38% 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 POMONA COLLEGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 21% · 2019 53% · 2020 16% · 2021 55% · 2022 17% · 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
48% of POMONA COLLEGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
POMONA COLLEGE draws 63% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 35 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 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
POMONA COLLEGE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 684 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding POMONA COLLEGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15.9M on record — $15.9M federal, $687 state.
- National Science Foundation$7.3M
- Department of Education$6.4M
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.5M
- Department of Defense$399k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$249k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$43k
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $687
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 POMONA 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
36%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 7 states
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- The Claremont College Services · exempt
- Charitable Remainder Trust (82) · corp_trust
- Pooled Income Fund (3) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for POMONA 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 POMONA COLLEGE?
- POMONA COLLEGE (California) receives grants from 247 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,547,408 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($12,933,838). 162 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does POMONA COLLEGE have?
- IRS filings report 247 organizations giving $61,547,408 in grants to POMONA COLLEGE, 162 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of POMONA COLLEGE?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $12,933,838 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like POMONA COLLEGE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 247 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