Massachusetts · Nonprofit
TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY
TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY (Massachusetts) receives grants from 233 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,600,734 to it, the largest being GORDON E AND BETTY I MOORE FOUNDATION ($7,081,048). 137 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $236M
- Funders on record
- 233
- Grants received
- $41M
- Net assets
- $577M
What Trustees of Clark University does
Mission
Clark university's mission is to educate undergraduate and graduate students to be imaginative and contributing citizens of the world, and to advance the frontiers of knowledge and understanding through rigorous scholarship and creative effort. (continued on schedule o)
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Instruction and academic support: clark's fall 2024 enrollment consisted of 2,266 undergraduates and 1,665 graduate students. Our motto - and mission - is "challenge convention; change our world", and our faculty members work to inspire their students to utilize their liberal arts based education to make a real difference in the communities in which they live and work. We also have strong graduate programs, which include masters' level degrees and eight phd programs.
$96,484,251 spent$180,194,289 earned by the program39% of program spendingFinancial aid: clark is committed to being affordable to those students able to meet the high academic expectations of our faculty. Approximately 97% of all undergraduate students receive some level of financial assistance, which is distributed on the basis of both merit and financial need.
$93,812,751 spentof which $93,812,751 as grants38% of program spendingResearch: clark is committed to a program of research and has a very professionally active faculty, virtually all of whom are engaged in sponsored or unsponsored research and creative activity. Undergraduate and graduate students participate extensively in faculty-directed research. Research is funded by both private and public grants.
$14,835,698 spentof which $2,757,808 as grants6% of program spendingAuxiliary services includes providing high quality residence halls, food service, and campus store services to clark students. Student services program supports an environment for the students that encourages them to become active, involved and responsible citizens in the global communities. Resources are expended to provide support to the students in achieving their non-academic goals and providing a balance and healthy social environment.
$40,282,562 spent$22,177,988 earned by the program16% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $245,415,262.
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 $609M to $719M (+18%).
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 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).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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
Gary Labovich
Trustee/chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 48 funders to 87 funders, grant income rose $1.6M → $5.6M.
39 of 233 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 233 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 17% 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.
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.
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 63% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 31 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13M arriving through sponsors registered in 20 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
TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY's funding base is broadening — from 48 funders to 87 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
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.
- 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
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Jonas Realty Corp · exempt
- Charitable Remainder Trust (18) · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY?
- TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY (Massachusetts) receives grants from 233 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,600,734 to it, the largest being GORDON E AND BETTY I MOORE FOUNDATION ($7,081,048). 137 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 233 organizations giving $40,600,734 in grants to TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY, 137 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 233 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