Maryland · Nonprofit
WASHINGTON COLLEGE
WASHINGTON COLLEGE (Maryland) receives grants from 153 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,750,823 to it, the largest being JHC Foundation ($5,500,000). 91 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $132M
- Funders on record
- 153
- Grants received
- $30M
- Net assets
- $486M
What Washington College does
Mission
Washington College challenges and inspires emerging citizen leaders to discover lives of purpose and passion.core valueswe share these values of our founding patron, george washington: integrity, determination, curiosity, civility, leadership, and moral courage. We offer academic rigor and self-discovery in a supportive, residential community of well-qualified, diverse, and motivated individuals. We develop in our students habits of analytic thought and clear communication, aesthetic insight, ethical sensitivity, and civic responsibility.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Washington College's achievements include succeeding as an institution of higher education promoting habits of analytic thought, aesthetic insight, imagination, ethical sensitivity and clarity of expression while successfully graduating students in 4 years. The college endeavors to prepare its graduates for further education and productive careers. With many majors and academic programs to choose from, students can devise a course of study that fits their intellectual interests and career aspirations. In addition to traditional fields of study, they may choose an area of concentration in fields such as behavioral neuroscience, clinical psychology or east asian studies, among others. The college also offers professional preparation tracks in premedical studies and pre-law, as well as dual degree programs in engineering, nursing and pharmacy.
$91,716,033 spentof which $33,301,798 as grants$48,317,225 earned by the program100% of program spendingWashington College uses its facilities during summer months to facilitate educational experiences for younger k-12 students. These students are given an opportunity to participate in summer camps ranging from sciences, mathematics and hands on projects. These camps last anywhere from four days to three weeks and are managed by other outside nonprofit organizations.
$133,677 spent$1,080,054 earned by the program0% of program spendingWashington College's residential life program provides students with opportunities and experiences that help them to develop responsibilities both to themselves and to their fellow students. It attempts to provide a relaxing and calm atmosphere for study and day-to-day living. Indeed, living on-campus is truly the "other-half" of a college education. With approximately 27 dorms to choose from, students have choices of single, doubles or triples in each room/unit. Hodson hall houses the dining facilities for Washington College. The main dining hall seats 500 on two levels. Students, faculty and staff find made-to-order meals along with self-serve options allowing for a customized dining experience. Students choose from five meals plans with additional options for meal equivalencies. Casual dining is located on the first floor of the commons. Operating until late evening, options include mondo subs, martha's kitchen, and the campus coffee bar, java george.
$0 spent$11,665,233 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $91,849,710.
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 $491M to $563M (+15%).
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 4% · 2018 3% · 2019 5% · 2020 9% · 2021 5% · 2022 5% · 2023 7% · 2024 4% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
16% of WASHINGTON 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. 2 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
Stephen T Golding
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 43 funders to 58 funders, grant income rose $2.2M → $2.3M.
27 of 153 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 COLLEGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 153 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 COLLEGE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
37% 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 COLLEGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 30% · 2019 21% · 2020 15% · 2021 27% · 2022 30% · 2023 44% — 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
47% of WASHINGTON COLLEGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
WASHINGTON COLLEGE draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 24 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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 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 COLLEGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $39.4M on record — $6.0M federal, $33.4M state.
- Department of Education$5.2M
- National Archives and Records Administration$339k
- National Science Foundation$325k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$60k
- Department of Agriculture$55k
- Department of Commerce$6k
- MD$33.1M
- DE$209k
- NJ$40k
- CT$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 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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Wc Water LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WASHINGTON 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 COLLEGE?
- WASHINGTON COLLEGE (Maryland) receives grants from 153 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,750,823 to it, the largest being JHC Foundation ($5,500,000). 91 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WASHINGTON COLLEGE have?
- IRS filings report 153 organizations giving $29,750,823 in grants to WASHINGTON COLLEGE, 91 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WASHINGTON COLLEGE?
- JHC Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $5,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WASHINGTON COLLEGE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 153 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