Arizona · Nonprofit
PRESCOTT COLLEGE INC
PRESCOTT COLLEGE INC (Arizona) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,531,100 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE B STORER FOUNDATION INC ($670,000). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $20M
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $4.5M
- Net assets
- $21M
What Prescott College Inc does
Mission
Together, we create interdisciplinary, experiential, and diverse learning environments that inspire future leaders to develop a healthy, just and sustainable world. We value our inclusive community, experiential and field-based learning, a culture of creativity, justice, individualized education, and regenerative sustainability. Prescott college provides experiential and collaborative education, creating opportunities for students to effect positive change in education, environment, and society.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Undergraduate programson-campus: prescott college offers experience-based bachelor of arts degrees focused on justice, the environment, adventure education, and the human experience within a liberal arts curriculum. Undergraduate - on-line: prescott college offers an online yet experience-based bachelor of arts degree in psychology.in 2022 prescott college earned a stars silver rating in recognition of its sustainability achievements from the association for the advancement of sustainability in higher education (aashe). Stars, the sustainability tracking, assessment & rating system measures and encourages sustainability in all aspects of higher education. Prescott college has also been recognized by us news and world report in 2022 as a top performer for social mobility. In 2024 prescott college was recognized by forbes as one of the best master's of mental health counseling online.in 2024 prescott college was recognized by forbes as one of the best online colleges in arizona.in 2024 prescott college was recognized by leading colleges for student outcomes: demonstrating the value of a college degree.for 2025 prescott college was recognized by the princeton review guide to green…
$11,509,412 spentof which $2,333,585 as grants$5,244,099 earned by the program67% of program spendingArizona serve program: the mission of arizona serve is to connect passionate people with transformative community projects to fight poverty. The vision is that communities and the individuals who serve them thrive when every person contributes to a sustainable and just existence. Arizona serve includes americorps and vista national service programs designed to improve lives and foster civic engagement. Members commit their time to address critical community needs like increasing academic achievement, mentoring youth, fighting poverty, sustaining national parks, preparing for disasters, and more. Fy 2024-25 members - 84
$1,622,398 spent$1,397,884 earned by the program9% of program spendingCounseling - masters - prescott college's cacrep-accredited ms in counseling gives students the opportunity to focus on areas of emphasis including: human sexuality counseling; marriage, couple, and family counseling; social justice in counseling; and somatic counseling. Students can also earn post graduate certificates in adventure-based counseling, nature-based counseling, or expressive arts therapy to enhance their learning and future practice. In 2023, prescott college launched a new education specialist (ed.s.) degree in experiential counseling. The program is designed to develop skills and knowledge necessary to incorporate the experience of experiential counseling, particularly in adventure-based, nature-based, and outdoor modalities. Graduates of the program will be employable in a range of settings, from educational to clinical. Fall 2024 full-time equivalents - 236
$1,897,751 spentof which $85,692 as grants$5,913,913 earned by the program11% of program spendingMasters and phd on-line: prescott college masters and phd programs are offered in the areas of sustainability, social justice, business, education, counseling, psychology, outdoor education, and interdisciplinary studies. All programs are offered in an online or hybrid format while focusing on experiential education. 86% of faculty hold terminal degrees in their fields. They frequently serve as subject matter experts in the local and national communities through published works and speaking engagements. Fall 2024 full-time equivalents -163
$1,719,704 spentof which $265,217 as grants$3,902,288 earned by the program10% of program spendingTitle iii program: prescott college has received a $2.2-million grant from the u.s. Department of education through the title iii strengthening institutions program(sip) to implement a comprehensive development plan: making a difference: transforming the undergraduate experience. The award, which is being distributed over five years, provides the college with the resources to significantly increase student success, ensure institutional vitality, and intensify its effort to develop leaders for the future. This is the first time that prescott college has received title iii funds. The title iii project is driven by goals intended to remove barriers for the identified minority groups, providing equal access and participation in higher education tied to degree attainment and economic mobility. The initial award for the first year is designed to help eligible institutions of higher education to become self-sufficient and expand their capacity to serve low-income students by providing funds to improve and strengthen the academic quality, institutional management and fiscal stability of eligible institutions.
$352,079 spent$352,079 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $17,101,344.
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.
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 $29M to $32M (+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: 2019 4% · 2020 4% · 2021 14% · 2022 13% · 2023 5% · 2024 6% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Kathleen Murphy
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $254k → $937k.
14 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 PRESCOTT COLLEGE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 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
PRESCOTT COLLEGE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
60% 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 PRESCOTT COLLEGE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 54% · 2019 51% · 2020 30% · 2021 18% · 2022 20% · 2023 33% — 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
38% of PRESCOTT COLLEGE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 76% 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
PRESCOTT COLLEGE INC draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Government funding PRESCOTT COLLEGE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.2M on record — $7.2M federal, $1k state.
- Department of Education$4.4M
- Corporation for National and Community Service$2.3M
- Department of Agriculture$400k
- Department of the Interior$106k
- Employee Tuition Costs$1k
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 PRESCOTT COLLEGE INC
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Prescott College Development Company LLC · disregarded
- Prescott College Acquisition Company LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PRESCOTT COLLEGE INC?
- PRESCOTT COLLEGE INC (Arizona) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,531,100 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE B STORER FOUNDATION INC ($670,000). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PRESCOTT COLLEGE INC have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $4,531,100 in grants to PRESCOTT COLLEGE INC, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PRESCOTT COLLEGE INC?
- THE GEORGE B STORER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $670,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PRESCOTT COLLEGE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 46 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