New York · Nonprofit
TRUSTEES OF ROBERT COLLEGE OF ISTANBUL
TRUSTEES OF ROBERT COLLEGE OF ISTANBUL (New York) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,044,495 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($560,970). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $27M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $-2150703
What Trustees of Robert College of Istanbul does
Mission
Organization's mission is to promote educational excellence in turkey. This is accomplished through the operation of robert college, a secondary school in istanbul, turkey, which educates young men and women with the skills, insights, and determination to function as leaders and contributing citizens in a wide range of social and cultural roles, both locally and internationally. Robert college has an academic program designed to enable highly talented and motivated students to pursue academic excellence and acquire fluency and literacy in english and in turkish.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Operation of secondary school in istanbul turkey with enrollment of approximately 1,040 students, 855 day students and 185 boarding students. The school provides classroom and other facilities, equipment, dorms, faculty and administrative services for these students.
$26,511,619 spentof which $4,825,791 as grants$21,342,784 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $26,511,619.
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 $13M to $9.1M (−28%).
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.
15% of TRUSTEES OF ROBERT COLLEGE OF ISTANBUL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $87k → $152k.
8 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 87% 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 ROBERT COLLEGE OF ISTANBUL’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 ROBERT COLLEGE OF ISTANBUL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% 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 ROBERT COLLEGE OF ISTANBUL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 99% · 2019 82% · 2020 57% · 2021 57% · 2022 35% · 2023 52% — diversifying over time.
“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
50% of TRUSTEES OF ROBERT COLLEGE OF ISTANBUL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
87% of TRUSTEES OF ROBERT COLLEGE OF ISTANBUL'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 $135k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $910k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 ROBERT COLLEGE OF ISTANBUL receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1.0M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 174 international nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like TRUSTEES OF ROBERT COLLEGE OF ISTANBUL
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Robert College Foundation · exempt
- Robert College of United Kingdom · exempt
- Ileri Egitim Vakfi · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF ROBERT COLLEGE OF ISTANBUL?
- TRUSTEES OF ROBERT COLLEGE OF ISTANBUL (New York) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,044,495 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($560,970). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TRUSTEES OF ROBERT COLLEGE OF ISTANBUL have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,044,495 in grants to TRUSTEES OF ROBERT COLLEGE OF ISTANBUL, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TRUSTEES OF ROBERT COLLEGE OF ISTANBUL?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $560,970 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRUSTEES OF ROBERT COLLEGE OF ISTANBUL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 13 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