California · Nonprofit
ROME INSTITUTE OF LIBERAL ARTS INC
ROME INSTITUTE OF LIBERAL ARTS INC (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $104,950 to it, the largest being THE AHMANSON FOUNDATION ($104,950). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $395k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $105k
- Net assets
- $72k
What Rome Institute of Liberal Arts Inc does
Mission
We give American college students a chance to study the great books/core texts of the liberal arts in Rome, interweaving with those readings Rome's art, architecture and history, as well as the experience of a broader world and Italian culture. We aim to supplement the education in philosophy and literature that students get in great books colleges in the US with an aesthetic and an historical education, as well as a broader understanding of the world beyond the United States.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
We began planning for a two-week program for adults from the University of Chicago Graham School to take place in Rome in March of 2026. This was a program for adult students who have already completed an intensive four year program of classical studies at the University of Chicago. Nearly all of the students were senior citizens. The two week program involved visits to classical sites, lectures and seminars. We are very glad to extend our study abroad work for such unusually engaged students in this more advanced age group. We also began planning for a January 2006 Venice program for regular college age undergraduates from Providence College, for whom we already organize a Maymester program.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Our courses are academically rigorous and involve difficult texts in philosophy and literature, from Plato to Hegel and from Dante to Wallace Stevens. We combine such study with excursions to explore art, architecture and history in Italy that our students' readings help open up for them. 1. Summer Program: we held our six week summer program in Rome, Italy. Professors came from St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland and Santa Fe, New Mexico as well as from the University of Texas at Austin Jefferson Center for the Study of Core Texts. We had 30 very excited and capable students in our summer program. These students took part in classes focused either in a course on readings in Roman history/political theory, or in art history/aesthetics, alongside regular excursions for the whole group, together with their professors, to see art and architecture in museums, churches, ancient monuments, renaissance palaces, and so on. As happens every year, a couple of our students discovered new career paths in art history or classics. As in all our classes, the rigorous engagement with major texts from the past alongside excursions to explore art and architecture made these courses a serious…
$443,709 spent$394,504 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $443,709.
The organization over time
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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 $63k to $124k (+98%).
How it's funded, over time
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6% of ROME INSTITUTE OF LIBERAL ARTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $16k → $23k.
From the IRS filings of ROME INSTITUTE OF LIBERAL ARTS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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.
Where its funders are
100% of ROME INSTITUTE OF LIBERAL ARTS INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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Against its field
ROME INSTITUTE OF LIBERAL ARTS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,450 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,450 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ROME INSTITUTE OF LIBERAL ARTS INC: 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 ROME INSTITUTE OF LIBERAL ARTS INC?
- ROME INSTITUTE OF LIBERAL ARTS INC (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $104,950 to it, the largest being THE AHMANSON FOUNDATION ($104,950). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ROME INSTITUTE OF LIBERAL ARTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $104,950 in grants to ROME INSTITUTE OF LIBERAL ARTS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROME INSTITUTE OF LIBERAL ARTS INC?
- THE AHMANSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $104,950 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROME INSTITUTE OF LIBERAL ARTS INC 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 1 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