Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
TRINITY COLLEGE
TRINITY COLLEGE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 72 organizations whose IRS filings report $66,538,436 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($27,000,000). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $86M
- Funders on record
- 72
- Grants received
- $67M
- Net assets
- $153M
What Trinity College does
Mission
To expand on the mission statement made on page 1, trinity's core mission values and characteristics emphasize: 1)commitment to the education of women in a particular way through the design and pedagogy of the historic undergraduate women's college, and by advancing principles of equity, justice, and honor in the education of women and men in all other programs; 2)foundation for learning in the liberal arts through the curriculum design in all undergraduate degree programs and through emphasis on the knowledge, skills, and values of liberal learning in all graduate and professional programs; 3)integration of liberal learning with professional preparation through applied and experiential learning opportunities in all programs; and 4)grounding in the mission of the sisters of notre dame de namur and the catholic tradition, welcoming persons of all faiths, to achieve the larger purposes of learning in the human search for meaning and fulfillment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Instruction - expenses include salary and benefits for full-time faculty and adjunct faculty members. During the academic year, trinity had approximately 4000 students enrolled in its three schools. Trinity maintains a very low student to faculty ratio.
$21,641,727 spent$37,151,916 earned by the program53% of program spendingStudent financial aid - expenses include aid provided through unfunded scholarships and discounts and restricted scholarships (term and endowment). As disclosed elsewhere in the 990, approximately 1,600 trinity students received some portion of student financial aid during the academic year.
$12,670,267 spentof which $12,670,267 as grants31% of program spendingAuxiliary enterprises the college's dormitories, dining hall and the trinity center for women and girls in sports are the major auxiliary enterprises serving the campus community. Students have living quarters in four buildings on campus. Academic support includes a 200,000 volume online library, computer center and administrative office.
$6,722,768 spent16% of program spendingStudent services expenses include athletics and recreation, admissions, registrar's office, health and counseling, student life and campus housing staff and programs, financial aid and campus ministry.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $41,034,762.
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 2024 to 2025, from $149M to $180M (+21%).
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 2% · 2018 1% · 2019 2% · 2020 14% · 2021 6% · 2022 13% · 2023 3% · 2024 3% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
49% of TRINITY COLLEGE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (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
Amy Freeman
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 21 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $2.6M → $13M.
19 of 72 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 72 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 leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
70% 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.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 63% · 2019 46% · 2020 27% · 2021 57% · 2022 37% · 2023 49% — 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
58% of TRINITY COLLEGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
66% 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 $22M that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 19 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $44M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
TRINITY COLLEGE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding TRINITY COLLEGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15.7M on record.
- Department of Education$15.7M
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TRINITY 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 TRINITY COLLEGE?
- TRINITY COLLEGE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 72 organizations whose IRS filings report $66,538,436 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($27,000,000). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% 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 72 organizations giving $66,538,436 in grants to TRINITY COLLEGE, 49 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TRINITY COLLEGE?
- CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $27,000,000 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 Washington, D.C.. 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 72 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing