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TRINITY COLLEGE

TRINITY COLLEGE (Connecticut) receives grants from 333 organizations whose IRS filings report $90,249,260 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($11,316,093). 212 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$281M
Funders on record
333
Grants received
$90M
Net assets
$1.1B
212/333 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Trinity College does

Mission

Trinity College's mission is to provide excellence in liberal arts education with emphasis on outstanding faculty, rigorous curriculum, talented and motivated student body and an attractive, supportive and secure campus community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The college provided instruction, research opportunities, and related support to faculty, and students to encourage professional development and a wide curriculum for liberal arts education. In addition, the college provided grants and scholarships to students who are judged worthy by the institution's assessment on the basis of academic achievement and financial need.

    $168,811,742 spentof which $88,642,438 as grants$162,795,522 earned by the program
    69% of program spending

  2. The college provided residential and dining services to students.

    $27,135,574 spent$29,040,303 earned by the program
    11% of program spending

  3. The college maintains a beautiful 100 acre campus with classic collegiate architecture.

    $20,714,350 spent
    9% of program spending

  4. Student services

    $17,846,224 spent
    7% of program spending

  5. Institutional support

    $7,963,780 spent
    3% of program spending

  6. Public service

    $1,113,520 spent
    0% of program spending

  7. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent$4,976,525 earned by the program
    0% of program spending

The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $243,585,190.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($215M) Expenses 100 ($191M) Net assets 100 ($732M)2018 Revenue 183 ($393M) Expenses 103 ($198M) Net assets 104 ($764M)2019 Revenue 88 ($188M) Expenses 112 ($214M) Net assets 106 ($780M)2020 Revenue 98 ($210M) Expenses 116 ($222M) Net assets 104 ($763M)2021 Revenue 116 ($249M) Expenses 110 ($210M) Net assets 130 ($949M)2022 Revenue 117 ($252M) Expenses 122 ($232M) Net assets 129 ($942M)2023 Revenue 112 ($240M) Expenses 131 ($250M) Net assets 129 ($948M)2024 Revenue 127 ($273M) Expenses 142 ($271M) Net assets 137 ($1.0B)2025 Revenue 131 ($281M) Expenses 149 ($284M) Net assets 146 ($1.1B)
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Revenue (131)Expenses (149)Net assets (146)Peer revenue range

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 $961M to $1.1B (+19%).

$941M
$967M
$978M
$961M
$1.1B
$1.2B
$1.2B
$1.2B
$1.3B
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 0% · 2019 1% · 2020 2% · 2021 3% · 2022 1% · 2023 1% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

17% of TRINITY COLLEGE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (14% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 732 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$24M
’17
$196M
’18
−$25M
’19
−$12M
’20
$39M
’21
$20M
’22
−$10.0M
’23
$1.7M
’24
−$3.3M
’25
2.6
months of
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

Lisa G Bisaccia

Chair-board of trustees

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed464547454444454345
Joined·+7+5+6+6+7+8+8+8
No longer listed·838777106
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 84 funders to 149 funders, grant income rose $4.6M → $13M.

Funder
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total
funders
84
86
106
139
140
150
149
148
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52 of 333 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 TRINITY COLLEGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 333 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

TRINITY COLLEGE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% 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

63% 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 TRINITY COLLEGE.

13%
largest funder
32%
top three
~16
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 18% · 2018 16% · 2019 23% · 2020 19% · 2021 17% · 2022 17% · 2023 22% — 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

48% of TRINITY COLLEGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

62% of TRINITY 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 $34M that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from funders outside Connecticut, across 31 states.

ME
VT
NH
WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
WV
VA
MD
DE
TN
NC
DC
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Connecticut out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $56M arriving through sponsors registered in 24 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

TRINITY COLLEGE is better cushioned than half of the 684 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−1% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025

Government funding TRINITY COLLEGE receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.6M on record — $4.6M federal, $85 state.

Federal$4.6M
grants $4.6Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$2.6M
  • National Science Foundation$2.1M
  • National Endowment for the Humanities$6k
  • Department of Agriculture$5k
State$85
Top programs
  • REFUNDS - GENERAL $85

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 TRINITY 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 Connecticut

Connecticut College85%Sacred Heart University Incorporated81%Quinnipiac University81%The Trinity Foundation Dba Marian81%Albertus Magnus College81%The Taft School Corporation80%Mitchell College79%The University of Bridgeport Inc78%

Nationally

Trinity Christian College Association88%Trinity Academy Inc87%Trinity Collegiate School85%Trinity University85%Trinity College of the Bible and Theological Seminary85%St Thomas Aquinas College85%Connecticut College85%Trinity College of Florida Inc84%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 12%Fundraising 2%

Governance

37
board members
97%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

76%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Acadian Intrntl Ext Plus · partnership
  • Charitable Remainder Unitrusts (18) · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE?
TRINITY COLLEGE (Connecticut) receives grants from 333 organizations whose IRS filings report $90,249,260 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($11,316,093). 212 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does TRINITY COLLEGE have?
IRS filings report 333 organizations giving $90,249,260 in grants to TRINITY COLLEGE, 212 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TRINITY COLLEGE?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $11,316,093 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TRINITY COLLEGE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 333 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