New York · Nonprofit
SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE
SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE (New York) receives grants from 180 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,892,973 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,965,314). 109 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $149M
- Funders on record
- 180
- Grants received
- $32M
- Net assets
- $208M
What Sarah Lawrence College does
Mission
At Sarah Lawrence College, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued on schedule o)
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Undergraduate programs: the freedom to steer your own education has always been the basis of sarah lawrence's academic approach. Students create a course of study that is uniquely theirs, benefiting from a 11:1 student-to-faculty ratio and 1:1 conferences with faculty. Students engage in a level of intellectual and creative development that prepares them for a life of meaning in whatever professional pathways they choose. Our 1,400 degree-seeking students can focus in any of our nearly 50 disciplines on our campus or in global studies programs in london, oxford, paris, and havana.
$106,972,053 spentof which $53,844,376 as grants$100,160,099 earned by the program82% of program spendingAuxiliary enterprises: Sarah Lawrence College provides students with a wide range of living and dining experiences. On-campus housing for 1,124 students includes many unique options, from converted houses to traditional suite-style residence halls. Sarah lawrence dining options include dining-hall, grab-and-go, and cafe style fare across a range of meal-plans.
$15,990,843 spent$20,535,022 earned by the program12% of program spendingGraduate programs: Sarah Lawrence College offers its 223 graduate students nine distinctive master's degree and various non-degree and certificate programs which include the areas of writing, theatre, dance, child development, art of teaching, human genetics, health advocacy and dance movement therapy.
$6,449,406 spent$7,170,143 earned by the program5% of program spendingOther educational programs consisting of non-credit continuing education programs, special non-credit courses for adults, (language, photography, swimming and fitness, etc.), writing institute classes, certificate courses, and early childhood programs.
$353,123 spent$1,863,747 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $129,765,425.
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 $244M to $289M (+19%).
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 4% · 2022 2% · 2023 24% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
7% of SARAH LAWRENCE 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. 7 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
Meryl Rosen
Chair of the board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 62 funders to 66 funders, grant income fell $4.7M → $2.1M.
23 of 180 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 180 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
SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
35% 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 SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 37% · 2019 22% · 2020 24% · 2021 24% · 2022 21% · 2023 35% — growing more concentrated.
“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
47% of SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 30 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE receives grants from 180 organizations whose IRS filings report $32M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.2M on record — $5.2M federal, $41k state.
- Department of Education$4.7M
- National Science Foundation$442k
- Smithsonian Institution$90k
- FEDERAL$41k
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 SARAH LAWRENCE 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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Sarah Lawrence at Oxford · exempt
- Sarah Lawrence Paris · exempt
- Charitable Remainder Trusts (9) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SARAH LAWRENCE 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE?
- SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE (New York) receives grants from 180 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,892,973 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,965,314). 109 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE have?
- IRS filings report 180 organizations giving $31,892,973 in grants to SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE, 109 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $5,965,314 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SARAH LAWRENCE 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.
Play a game about who funds Sarah Lawrence College →
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 180 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