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TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY

TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY (Massachusetts) receives grants from 229 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,389,086 to it, the largest being Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation ($7,081,048). 136 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$236M
Revenue FY2025
229
Funders on record
$40M
Grants received
$577M
Net assets
136/229 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%

Against its field

TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY's funding base is broadening — from 48 funders to 87 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−13% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 671 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($161M) Expenses 100 ($167M) Net assets 100 ($492M)2018 Revenue 110 ($178M) Expenses 103 ($172M) Net assets 107 ($526M)2019 Revenue 108 ($175M) Expenses 109 ($182M) Net assets 104 ($512M)2020 Revenue 125 ($201M) Expenses 118 ($197M) Net assets 104 ($510M)2021 Revenue 113 ($181M) Expenses 119 ($199M) Net assets 124 ($612M)2022 Revenue 123 ($198M) Expenses 137 ($229M) Net assets 112 ($551M)2023 Revenue 141 ($227M) Expenses 149 ($249M) Net assets 107 ($527M)2024 Revenue 155 ($250M) Expenses 155 ($259M) Net assets 116 ($572M)2025 Revenue 146 ($236M) Expenses 160 ($266M) Net assets 117 ($577M)
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Revenue (146)Expenses (160)Net assets (117)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 3% · 2018 3% · 2019 3% · 2020 4% · 2021 6% · 2022 8% · 2023 7% · 2024 4% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

11% of TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (14% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 729 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$6.1M
17
$5.3M
18
$7.6M
19
$3.6M
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$18M
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$30M
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$22M
23
$9.3M
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$31M
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0.9
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 48 funders to 87 funders, grant income rose $1.6M → $5.6M.

38 of 229 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)31% 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 TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 229 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

TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left

43% 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 TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY.

18%
largest funder
34%
top three
~18
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 11% · 2018 48% · 2019 16% · 2020 20% · 2021 26% · 2022 20% · 2023 18%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

40% of TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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

TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 31 states in all.

ME
VT
NH
WA
MT
IL
WI
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
KS
NC
DC
OK
LA
GA
TX
FL

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

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Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 229 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $65.9M on record.

Federal$65.9M
grants $65.6Mcontracts $371k
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Top agencies
  • Department of Labor$27.0M
  • National Science Foundation$20.0M
  • Department of Education$9.9M
  • Department of Agriculture$2.9M
  • Department of Health and Human Services$2.8M
  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration$2.2M

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 TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Massachusetts

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 5%Fundraising 3%

Governance

31
board members
97%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

87%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Jonas Realty Corp · exempt
  • Charitable Remainder Trust (18) · corp_trust

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY: 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 TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY?
TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY (Massachusetts) receives grants from 229 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,389,086 to it, the largest being Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation ($7,081,048). 136 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY have?
IRS filings report 229 organizations giving $40,389,086 in grants to TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY, 136 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY?
Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $7,081,048 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 229funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing