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FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION INC

EIN 46-1439784 PRINCETON, NJ

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Revenue 2025
$5,032,451
Expenses 2025
$5,655,280

Program services were 91.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T22
Classification
2000
Street
16 STOCKTON ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

ESTABLISHED IN 2012 AS AN INDEPENDENT, NON-PARTISAN, GRANT-MAKING ORGANIZATION, THE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION, INC ("FEHE") FUNDS AND ADVISES PROGRAMS AT ELITE UNIVERSITIES WHERE THE NEXT GENERATION OF CULTURAL LEADERS ARE FORMED. WE ADVANCE OUR MISSION OF ACADEMIC AND CULTURAL RENEWAL BY BUILDING INTERNAL UNIVERSITY PROGRAMS SUPPORTED BY EXTERNAL INSTITUTES, FORMING EXCEPTIONAL STUDENTS IN CHARACTER AND VIRTUE THROUGH CLOSE MENTORSHIP AND INTELLECTUAL FRIENDSHIP, NETWORKING THESE STUDENTS WITH SELECT FACULTY, INDUSTRY LEADERS, AND WITH EACH OTHER, AND MULTIPLYING THEIR IMPACT ACROSS INDUSTRIES, GEOGRAPHIES, AND GENERATIONS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

FEHE Funds and advises programs at elite universities where the next generation of cultural leaders are formed.

  • In the 2024-25 academic year, FEHE's network sponsored 85 for-credit courses for almost 3,500 students, and hosted over 1,650 seminars, lectures, and conferences for about 40,000 attendees. FEHE currently supports twenty-five institutes and programs at fifteen elite universities. These programs are forming exceptional students through intellectual friendship, connecting them with each other, and positioning them at key points of cultural influence in academia, law, politics, business, media, finance, and medicine. FEHE's impact on elite universities and the broader culture is significant and growing. In the past five years, our grantees have reached approximately 140,000 students and young scholars through 6,680 events and 329 for-credit courses. The year-over-year growth of each of these metrics (students and attendees up 143 percent; events up 6 percent; for-credit courses up 12 percent) demonstrates FEHE's success in advancing its goals of forming students and supporting the next generation of scholars and leaders.

    Expenses $5,169,043 · Grants $4,884,090 · Revenue $98,050

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Francis Hager

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Luis Tellez

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    30

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    not reported
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    not reported

  • Donald Readlinger

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Keith Fullenweider

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Robert George

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Myles Harrington

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Steven Justice

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Boyd Smith

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Thomas Trkla

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • G David Bednar

    trustee (term 02/26//2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kelly Hanlon

    DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    28

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    not reported
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    not reported

  • John Doherty

    ASST. TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    18

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    not reported
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    not reported

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $5,032,451
    Expenses
    $5,655,280
    Contributions
    $4,779,743
    Grants paid
    $4,884,090
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $7,899,396
    Expenses
    $10,284,802
    Contributions
    $7,790,410
    Grants paid
    $9,697,402
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $7,899,396
    Expenses
    $10,284,802
    Contributions
    $7,790,410
    Grants paid
    $9,697,402
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $12,619,382
    Expenses
    $8,866,364
    Contributions
    $12,579,199
    Grants paid
    $8,298,749

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990-PF

    Revenue
    $10,645,198
    Expenses
    $8,223,812
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,905,740

  • 2020 · 990-PF

    Revenue
    $5,996,141
    Expenses
    $10,744,742
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,583,657

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.