New York · Nonprofit
SKIDMORE COLLEGE
SKIDMORE COLLEGE (New York) receives grants from 343 organizations whose IRS filings report $96,145,490 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($19,821,263). 223 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $287M
- Funders on record
- 343
- Grants received
- $96M
- Net assets
- $915M
What Skidmore College does
Mission
The education of predominantly full-time undergraduates, a diverse population of talented students who are eager to engage actively in the learning process. The college seeks to prepare liberally educated graduates to continue their quest for knowledge and to make the choices required of informed, responsible citizens. Skidmore faculty and staff create a challenging yet supportive environment that cultivates students' intellectual and personal excellence, encouraging them to expand their expectations of themselves while they enrich their academic understanding.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Instruction and research: includes all expenses for all activities that are a part of the college's instructional program. The college provides liberal arts education to approximately 2700 students and maintains a student to faculty ratio of approximately 8:1.
$58,745,173 spent$180,380,144 earned by the program26% of program spendingStudent aid: includes expenses for scholarships in the form of grants to students, resulting from selection by the institution from a needs-based program. Currently, approximately 54.6% of skidmore students are receiving scholarships, grants, loans, and/or work awards which are offered singly or in various combinations.
$77,175,000 spentof which $77,175,000 as grants$8,626 earned by the program34% of program spendingInstitutional support: includes expenses for central administrative level activities concerned with management of the entire institution. Organizational units include fiscal operations, planning and budgeting, human resources, purchasing, campus safety, information technology, etc.
$28,729,161 spent13% of program spendingHigher education: other: includes student services, academic support and other auxiliary enterprises. Student services includes expenses for organizational units that provide support to students. These units include health services, counseling center, athletics, interfaith programs, etc. Academic support includes all expenses for all activities that are part of the college's academic mission. Auxiliary enterprises includes expenses for organizational units that exist to furnish goods or services to students, faculty and staff, and that charge a fee directly related to the cost of the goods or services. Facilities include twelve dorms and apartment complexes providing housing to approximately 2220 students, two dining halls, a bookstore, snack bar, child center, and telephone services.
$60,980,779 spentof which $49,000 as grants$46,957,942 earned by the program27% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $225,630,113.
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 $826M to $1.0B (+23%).
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 2% · 2020 2% · 2021 3% · 2022 3% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
10% of SKIDMORE 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. 0 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
Nancy Hamilton
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 88 funders to 137 funders, grant income rose $5.9M → $17M.
56 of 343 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 SKIDMORE COLLEGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 343 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
SKIDMORE COLLEGE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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
58% 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 SKIDMORE COLLEGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 41% · 2019 34% · 2020 27% · 2021 23% · 2022 44% · 2023 38% — 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
45% of SKIDMORE COLLEGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
52% of SKIDMORE COLLEGE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $47M that is directly attributable, 74% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50M arriving through sponsors registered in 25 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
SKIDMORE COLLEGE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 684 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding SKIDMORE COLLEGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $19.7M on record.
- Department of Education$8.2M
- National Science Foundation$5.8M
- Department of Homeland Security$2.9M
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$1.6M
- Department of Health and Human Services$994k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$200k
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 SKIDMORE 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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
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
- Charitable Remainder Trusts (12) · corp_trust
- Charitable Gift Annuities (136) · corp_trust
- Pooled Income Fund (16) · corp_trust
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SKIDMORE 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 SKIDMORE COLLEGE?
- SKIDMORE COLLEGE (New York) receives grants from 343 organizations whose IRS filings report $96,145,490 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($19,821,263). 223 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SKIDMORE COLLEGE have?
- IRS filings report 343 organizations giving $96,145,490 in grants to SKIDMORE COLLEGE, 223 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SKIDMORE COLLEGE?
- JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND is the largest funder on record, with $19,821,263 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SKIDMORE 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.
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 343 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