Virginia · Nonprofit
THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL
THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL (Virginia) receives grants from 100 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,119,967 to it, the largest being BIKOFF FOUNDATION ($1,800,000). 82 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $65M
- Funders on record
- 100
- Grants received
- $10M
- Net assets
- $151M
What The Collegiate School does
Mission
To create a diverse and inclusive community of learners committed to a challenging and supportive educational experience that will foster the intellectual, moral, emotional, and physical development of each student.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Instructional: collegiate school provided junior kindergarten through twelfth grade education to 1,690 students. Collegiate operates two campuses: the 55-acre main academic campus, located in western henrico county, and the robins campus, a 180-acre athletic campus, located in eastern goochland county. The main campus comprises the lower school, middle school and upper school and is also home to the hershey center for the arts, grover jones athletic field, the sharp academic commons and three libraries. Program description continued on schedule o.
$50,866,259 spentof which $5,197,935 as grants$50,853,617 earned by the program92% of program spendingAuxiliaries and other programs - the school operates, for the benefit and convenience of parents, students, and alumni, several auxiliary services including food service (cafeterias), a campus bookstore, after school programs, summer camps, youth sports, and private music instruction, among others.
$4,501,832 spent$5,927,119 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $55,368,091.
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 $158M to $175M (+10%).
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: 2021 8% · 2023 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
7% of THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% 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
W Hildebrandt Surgner Jr
Chairman of the board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 26 funders to 58 funders, grant income rose $346k → $1.6M.
20 of 100 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 100 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
THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% 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
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 THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 55% · 2019 21% · 2020 20% · 2021 28% · 2022 24% · 2023 35% — broadly stable.
“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
68% of THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 82% 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
55% of THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL's funding base is broadening — from 26 funders to 58 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL
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 Virginia
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
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL?
- THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL (Virginia) receives grants from 100 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,119,967 to it, the largest being BIKOFF FOUNDATION ($1,800,000). 82 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 100 organizations giving $10,119,967 in grants to THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL, 82 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL?
- BIKOFF FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,800,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 100 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