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Wabash College

Wabash College (Indiana) receives grants from 105 organizations whose IRS filings report $92,644,547 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($71,889,207). 67 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$110M
Funders on record
105
Grants received
$93M
Net assets
$650M
67/105 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 42%
01What it does

What Wabash College does

Mission

Wabash College is a liberal arts college for men that educates them to think critically, act responsibly, lead effectively, and live humanely.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Instruction - the academic instruction program. Student services and athletics - activities whose primary goal is to contribute to the student's emotional and physical well-being as well as intellectual, cultural, and social development outside of the classroom. Academic support and library - support services for instruction, research, and public service. Includes library and computer services. 882 students served.

    $88,843,837 spentof which $33,815,157 as grants$56,929,429 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $88,843,837.

02The 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 ($59M) Expenses 100 ($71M) Net assets 100 ($449M)2018 Revenue 134 ($79M) Expenses 106 ($76M) Net assets 105 ($472M)2019 Revenue 139 ($82M) Expenses 116 ($83M) Net assets 104 ($466M)2020 Revenue 152 ($90M) Expenses 113 ($81M) Net assets 104 ($468M)2021 Revenue 145 ($85M) Expenses 116 ($83M) Net assets 124 ($558M)2022 Revenue 159 ($94M) Expenses 122 ($87M) Net assets 119 ($536M)2023 Revenue 129 ($76M) Expenses 125 ($89M) Net assets 119 ($533M)2024 Revenue 188 ($111M) Expenses 131 ($93M) Net assets 131 ($588M)2025 Revenue 187 ($110M) Expenses 139 ($100M) Net assets 145 ($650M)
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Revenue (187)Expenses (139)Net assets (145)Peer revenue range

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 $537M to $622M (+16%).

$520M
$539M
$526M
$537M
$622M
$587M
$580M
$633M
$694M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 2% · 2022 3% · 2023 1% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

37% of Wabash College’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (14% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 732 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$13M
’17
$3.1M
’18
−$1.1M
’19
$8.6M
’20
$2.7M
’21
$6.7M
’22
−$13M
’23
$18M
’24
$11M
’25
7.9
months of
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

Jay R Allen

Chair of the board of trustees

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed474849484643424747
Joined·+5+6+7+46+1+3+47+2
No longer listed·4584844422
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 28 funders to 53 funders, grant income rose $9.1M → $32M.

27 of 105 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 Wabash College’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 105 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

Wabash College leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

78%
largest funder
83%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 55% · 2019 67% · 2020 67% · 2021 91% · 2022 36% · 2023 88% — 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

49% of Wabash College's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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

88% of Wabash College's grant income comes from Indiana funders.

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

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Indiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Wabash College holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 684 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin10% · above the median
Months of reserve7.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025

Government funding Wabash College receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.5M on record — $6.5M federal, $3k state.

Federal$6.5M
grants $6.5Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Education$4.1M
  • National Science Foundation$1.9M
  • Department of Health and Human Services$304k
  • National Endowment for the Humanities$151k
State$3k
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08
Top programs
  • Scholarships-Students$3k

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 Wabash 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 Indiana

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 9%Fundraising 2%

Governance

40
board members
98%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 7 states

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ND
NY
CO
SC
AL
GA

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Great Lakes Colleges Association Inc · exempt
  • Independent Colleges of Indiana Inc · exempt
  • Charitable Remainder Trusts (23) · corp_trust

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Wabash College: 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 Wabash College?
Wabash College (Indiana) receives grants from 105 organizations whose IRS filings report $92,644,547 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($71,889,207). 67 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Wabash College have?
IRS filings report 105 organizations giving $92,644,547 in grants to Wabash College, 67 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Wabash College?
LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $71,889,207 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Wabash College find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 105 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