Minnesota · Nonprofit
TRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
TRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA (Minnesota) receives grants from 97 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,862,242 to it, the largest being THE INDEPENDENT CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($935,000). 61 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $123M
- Funders on record
- 97
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $216M
What Trustees of the Hamline University of Minnesota does
Mission
Founded in 1854, hamline university is a nationally ranked comprehensive university serving over 2,600 students in its college of liberal arts, school of education, and school of business. It offers undergraduate, masters, doctorate and professional degrees, as well as certificate and continuing studies programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Hamline university is a nationally-ranked, comprehensive university serving over 2,600 students in its college of liberal arts, school of education, and school of business. It offers undergraduate, masters, doctoral and professional degrees, as well as certificate and continuing studies programs. Founded in 1854, hamline university was the first institution of higher learning in minnesota. The university has established a national reputation for academic quality, as well as providing students with personal attention and high-impact learning experiences. Hamline is one of approximately 290 phi beta kappa institutions in the united states. Among comprehensive universities, u.s. News and world report's 2024 rankings place hamline as the top minnesota university in its category of best regional universities. It is one of only four private universities in minnesota, wisconsin, iowa and the dakotas that rate within the top 20% for student's economic mobility, out of 1,320 of us colleges and universities, according to thirdway.org's 2022 rankings.
$70,525,530 spentof which $47,428,607 as grants$93,237,968 earned by the program67% of program spendingHamline university provides educational services to its students and includes such operating expenses as admissions, financial aid, administration, registrar activities, and activities that contribute to students' emotional and physical well-being and to their intellectual, cultural, and social development outside the context of the formal instructional program.
$16,610,766 spent16% of program spendingHamline university provides academic support to its students through support services that are an integral part of the university's primary mission of instruction. This includes expenses for libraries, galleries, audio/visual services, academic development, academic computing support, course and curriculum development, and academic administration. The revenue includes contracts.
$7,860,653 spent$1,011,190 earned by the program7% of program spendingHamline university also provides auxiliary services to students in relation to their operations. These services may charge a fee to students that is related to, although not necessarily equal to, the cost of providing the service. Examples are residence halls, dining services, student health services, and the campus bookstore.
$7,792,786 spent$3,761,476 earned by the program7% of program spendingExpenditures of those offices and activities whose primary purpose is to support the program activities of the university.
$3,237,125 spentof which $20,000 as grants$2,254,170 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $106,026,860.
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 $223M to $258M (+16%).
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 3% · 2019 2% · 2020 4% · 2021 5% · 2022 9% · 2023 8% · 2024 3% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
10% of TRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA’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. 1 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.
Chief executive
Jilliam Peterson
Executive director - vpprc
Board chair
Doron Clark '00
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 28 funders to 36 funders, grant income rose $881k → $1.5M.
22 of 97 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 97 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 THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 9% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
68% 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 THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 18% · 2019 38% · 2020 17% · 2021 18% · 2022 15% · 2023 48% — 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
46% of TRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
52% of TRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA'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 $5.3M that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 19 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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 THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA receives grants from 97 organizations whose IRS filings report $11M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding TRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $19.0M on record.
- Department of Education$17.5M
- Department of Justice$1.1M
- Department of the Interior$195k
- National Science Foundation$152k
- Environmental Protection Agency$49k
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 THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 10 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: 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 THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA?
- TRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA (Minnesota) receives grants from 97 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,862,242 to it, the largest being THE INDEPENDENT CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($935,000). 61 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA have?
- IRS filings report 97 organizations giving $10,862,242 in grants to TRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, 61 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA?
- THE INDEPENDENT CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $935,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 97 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