Massachusetts · Nonprofit
Trustees of Tufts College
Trustees of Tufts College (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1064 organizations whose IRS filings report $478,286,579 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($53,278,073). 658 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6B
- Funders on record
- 1,064
- Grants received
- $478M
- Net assets
- $3.7B
What Trustees of Tufts College does
Mission
Education and Research
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Instruction - during the 2024-2025 academic year, the following degrees were conferred: 1,843 undergraduate, 1,527 graduate, 632 professional, and 213 certificate.
$774,621,415 spentof which $204,465,703 as grants$906,500,916 earned by the program62% of program spendingResearch -there were 1,189 government and 701 non-government grants active in fiscal year 2025. Sponsored research at tufts was performed in the medical, dental, and veterinary schools as well as in the basic science departments of arts & science & engineering. Research is also being performed at the usda human nutrition research center on aging. Also, clinical and other research activities include 30 clinics that are operated by the dental and veterinary schools to train students and support their research. Other educational activities include, among others, veterinary school newsletters and continuing education programs for health school professionals.
$364,411,717 spentof which $42,681,637 as grants$127,604,703 earned by the program29% of program spendingAuxiliary enterprises - activities primarily consist of services for students, including student housing, dining services and health services. During the 2025 fiscal year there were 77 residence halls housing 4,201 students. Approximately 5,299 meal plans were sold to students each semester.
$117,519,874 spent$10,027,605 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,256,553,006.
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 $3.8B to $4.8B (+29%).
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 15% · 2018 13% · 2019 13% · 2020 14% · 2021 13% · 2022 13% · 2023 16% · 2024 15% · 2025 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
24% of Trustees of Tufts College’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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 268 funders to 399 funders, grant income rose $35M → $70M.
96 of 1064 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $16M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Omidyar-Tufts Active Citizenship Trust). These are real filings, and they are not money Trustees of Tufts College raised.
From the IRS filings of Trustees of Tufts College’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 1064 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 Tufts College has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 21 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 21 funders to its left
56% 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 Tufts College.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 11% · 2018 18% · 2019 11% · 2020 13% · 2021 8% · 2022 13% · 2023 9% — 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
42% of Trustees of Tufts College's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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 Tufts College draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 42 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $166M arriving through sponsors registered in 30 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 Tufts College runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 684 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding Trustees of Tufts College receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.5B on record — $1.4B federal, $174.8M state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$807.9M
- Department of Agriculture$150.9M
- National Science Foundation$122.9M
- Department of Defense$109.1M
- Agency for International Development$107.1M
- Department of Education$27.3M
- MA$174.7M
- VT$92k
- DE$625
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 Tufts 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 8 states
Part of a family of 18 related entities
- Tudc LLC · disregarded
- Tufts Media LLC · disregarded
- Tufts Health and Wellness Services LLC · disregarded
- TAS Operations LLC · disregarded
- Tufts Global UK Limited · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College?
- Trustees of Tufts College (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1064 organizations whose IRS filings report $478,286,579 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($53,278,073). 658 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Trustees of Tufts College have?
- IRS filings report 1064 organizations giving $478,286,579 in grants to Trustees of Tufts College, 658 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Trustees of Tufts College?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $53,278,073 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Trustees of Tufts College 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 1064 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