Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE
WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 130 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,874,378 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,596,372). 73 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $104M
- Funders on record
- 130
- Grants received
- $19M
- Net assets
- $322M
What Washington & Jefferson College does
Mission
To graduate people of uncommon integrity, competence, and maturity, who are effective lifelong learners and responsible citizens, and who are prepared to contribute substantially to the world in which they live.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Washington & Jefferson College, founded in 1781, is known for its highly customized and intellectually engaging student experience that develops professionals of uncommon integrity to lead in an ever-changing world. The college offers more than 60 areas of study that allow our students to tailor their academic experience to the topics that match their ambitions. Statistics - undergraduate students: 1,306 full-time equivalent students and 3 graduate.see schedule o for continuationthe four hallmarks of this experience are "customized journeys," a unique, life-cycle approach to self-discovery, academic advising and career development; "intellectual engagement," including a requirement to study broadly in two different academic areas; "professional readiness," individualized developmental experiences including a required practicum relevant to a desired career; and "ethical leadership," a four-year curricular and co-curricular program for all students to develop competencies in conflict resolution, civil discourse, professionalism, and service to others.
$73,524,846 spentof which $23,071,835 as grants$55,753,336 earned by the program99% of program spendingWashington & Jefferson College offers auxiliary services such as the operation of the campus store, conferences & events, laundry, and dining to enhance the overall experience of its students.
$490,287 spent$952,493 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $74,015,133.
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 2023 to 2024, from $317M to $359M (+13%).
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: 2020 1% · 2021 2% · 2022 2% · 2023 5% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
30% of WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON 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. 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.
Board chair
Donna Haley Grier
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 28 funders to 47 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $1.6M.
22 of 130 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 130 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
WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
43% 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 WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 44% · 2019 74% · 2020 26% · 2021 48% · 2022 18% · 2023 25% — 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
43% of WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
78% of WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 684 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.0M on record — $7.0M federal, $7k state.
- Department of Education$6.7M
- National Science Foundation$124k
- Department of Agriculture$81k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$60k
- Department of Justice$47k
- DIAMOND STATE SCHOLARSHIP$5k
- DE POSTSECONDARY SCHLRSHP$2k
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 WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
50%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Charitable Remainder Unitrust (5) · corp_trust
- Charitable Remainder Trust (1) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON 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 WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE?
- WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 130 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,874,378 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,596,372). 73 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE have?
- IRS filings report 130 organizations giving $18,874,378 in grants to WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE, 73 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $5,596,372 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 130 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