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WAGNER COLLEGE

WAGNER COLLEGE (New York) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,317,905 to it, the largest being NORTHEAST CONFERENCE ($4,504,416). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$117M
Funders on record
68
Grants received
$9.3M
Net assets
$126M
35/68 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Wagner College does

Mission

Wagner College prepares students for life, as well as for careers, by emphasizing scholarship, achievement, leadership, and citizenship. Wagner College offers a comprehensive educational program that is anchored in the liberal arts, experiential and (see schedule o) (continuation) curricular learning, interculturalism, interdisciplinary studies, and service to society, and that is cultivated by a faculty dedicated to promoting individual expression, reflective practice, and integrative learning.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Instruction and scholarships/fellowships: Wagner College serves 2,001 students (fall 2024 semester). Wagner offers programs in humanities, performing and visual arts, professional programs, the sciences, social sciences and interdisciplinary programs. The college grants the degrees of bachelor of arts, bachelor of science, bachelor of science in education, master of business administration, master of science in education, master of science in accounting, master of science in nursing, master of science in microbiology, master of science in advanced physician assistant, executive master in business administration, and doctor of nursing practice. Scholarships and fellowships are awarded to approximately 90% of all full-time students through the college's financial aid office.

    $79,467,208 spentof which $55,942,010 as grants$96,268,461 earned by the program
    68% of program spending
  2. Student services and academic support: student services for 2,001 students include dean of students, academic advisement, admissions, chaplain, career planning, health services, financial aid, orientation, registrar counseling, student government, student activities board, campus life, and security, as well as athletic services consisting of 26 varsity sports teams for men and women. Academic support services for 2,001 students include academic affairs, technology services, library, language lab, media services, nursing lab, and spiro computer lab.

    $10,264,594 spent$944,500 earned by the program
    9% of program spending
  3. Auxiliary services: Wagner College provides residence and dining services to approximately 80% of full-time undergraduate students.

    $27,479,844 spent$18,078,351 earned by the program
    23% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $117,211,646.

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 ($121M) Expenses 100 ($114M) Net assets 100 ($104M)2018 Revenue 101 ($122M) Expenses 103 ($117M) Net assets 106 ($109M)2019 Revenue 102 ($124M) Expenses 102 ($116M) Net assets 111 ($115M)2020 Revenue 97 ($117M) Expenses 97 ($110M) Net assets 123 ($127M)2021 Revenue 96 ($116M) Expenses 96 ($109M) Net assets 140 ($146M)2022 Revenue 96 ($116M) Expenses 104 ($118M) Net assets 121 ($126M)2023 Revenue 100 ($120M) Expenses 108 ($123M) Net assets 125 ($130M)2024 Revenue 97 ($117M) Expenses 119 ($136M) Net assets 121 ($126M)
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Revenue (97)Expenses (119)Net assets (121)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 2021 to 2022, from $223M to $274M (+23%).

$192M
$194M
$201M
$208M
$223M
$274M
$279M
$278M
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 0% · 2020 2% · 2021 2% · 2022 3% · 2023 1% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

5% of WAGNER COLLEGE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (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 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$6.8M
’17
$5.4M
’18
$7.5M
’19
$6.7M
’20
$6.9M
’21
−$2.1M
’22
−$2.3M
’23
−$19M
’24
0.2
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.

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Listed3029343536373738
Joined·+3+7+6+11+10+6+6
No longer listed·42510965
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $201k → $1.9M.

11 of 68 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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: $5.0M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest National Collegiate Athletic Association). These are real filings, and they are not money WAGNER COLLEGE raised.

From the IRS filings of WAGNER COLLEGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 68 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

WAGNER COLLEGE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

80% 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 WAGNER COLLEGE.

48%
largest funder
69%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 30% · 2019 82% · 2020 46% · 2021 63% · 2022 58% · 2023 36% — 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

34% of WAGNER COLLEGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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

WAGNER COLLEGE draws 85% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 18 states in all.

IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
NV
OH
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
NC
DC
OK
TX
FL

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

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New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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

WAGNER COLLEGE's funding base is broadening — from 19 funders to 22 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−16% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−0% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 696 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2024

Government funding WAGNER COLLEGE receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.4M on record — $7.3M federal, $92k state.

Federal$7.3M
grants $7.3Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Education$7.3M
  • National Endowment for the Humanities$10k
State$92k
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By state
  • NJ$91k
  • DE$1k

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 WAGNER 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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 15%Fundraising 2%

Governance

24
board members
96%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds WAGNER COLLEGE?
WAGNER COLLEGE (New York) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,317,905 to it, the largest being NORTHEAST CONFERENCE ($4,504,416). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WAGNER COLLEGE have?
IRS filings report 68 organizations giving $9,317,905 in grants to WAGNER COLLEGE, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WAGNER COLLEGE?
NORTHEAST CONFERENCE is the largest funder on record, with $4,504,416 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WAGNER COLLEGE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 68 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