Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
WILSON COLLEGE
WILSON COLLEGE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,949,277 to it, the largest being KING MARY W FBO WILS COLL (PF) ($1,215,473). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $39M
- Funders on record
- 82
- Grants received
- $7.9M
- Net assets
- $111M
What Wilson College does
Mission
Wilson College empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Founded in 1869 as an independent, non-profit college for women, Wilson College remains focused on delivering an accessible and affordable education rooted in the liberal arts and sciences. In 1982, the college was one of the first in the region to begin offering a continuing studies program to meet the needs of a growing population of adults seeking a post-secondary education. In 1996, the college was one of the first in the nation to offer on-campus, residential education for single parents with children. In 2022, the college launched Wilson College online, further embracing its focus on accessibility to underserved populations. Today, wilson admits women and men of all ages to its bachelor's and associate degrees, as well as post-baccalaureate and graduate programs. By providing a quality, private education at a price competitive with regional public institutions, wilson remains committed to delivering value and affordability to its students and their families. In the fall of 2025, the college reached its highest total enrollment in its history with 1,705 enrolled students.
$26,880,956 spentof which $8,191,284 as grants$28,495,351 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $26,880,956.
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 $117M to $132M (+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: 2017 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 3% · 2020 9% · 2021 6% · 2022 8% · 2023 1% · 2024 7% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of WILSON COLLEGE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Jennifer N Banzhof
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $383k → $1.1M.
19 of 82 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 WILSON COLLEGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 82 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
WILSON COLLEGE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
47% 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 WILSON COLLEGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 47% · 2019 19% · 2020 20% · 2021 19% · 2022 14% · 2023 19% — 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
47% of WILSON COLLEGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
WILSON COLLEGE draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
WILSON COLLEGE is better cushioned than half of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding WILSON COLLEGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.4M on record — $8.4M federal, $4k state.
- Department of Education$6.9M
- National Science Foundation$998k
- Department of Justice$300k
- Department of Agriculture$250k
- Department of Commerce$9k
- SCHOLARSHIPS$4k
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 WILSON 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
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WILSON 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 WILSON COLLEGE?
- WILSON COLLEGE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,949,277 to it, the largest being KING MARY W FBO WILS COLL (PF) ($1,215,473). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WILSON COLLEGE have?
- IRS filings report 82 organizations giving $7,949,277 in grants to WILSON COLLEGE, 42 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WILSON COLLEGE?
- KING MARY W FBO WILS COLL (PF) is the largest funder on record, with $1,215,473 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WILSON 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 82 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