- Revenue 2024
- $48,161,648
- Expenses 2024
- $46,598,272
Program services were 74.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- B420
- Classification
- 2000
- Street
- 541 MAIN 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).
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
Colby-Sawyer College is a private, independent, residential, college with a mission to offer undergraduate and graduate educational programs based in the liberal arts and health, social, and natural sciences, with a focus on vocational exploration and experiential learning, which prepare students to thrive in, and make a positive impact upon a dynamic, diverse, and interdependent world. Engaged robust partnerships will support students' academic, intellectual, personal and professional growth, align with workforce development needs, and enhance individual and community well-being and resilience. Colby-Sawyer College was founded as an academy in 1837 and has been integrated in higher education since 1928.
Activities or mission (Part I)
Institute of Higher Learning
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The institution offered a comprehensive, private, liberal arts education, with degrees granted at the associates, bachelors, masters and doctorate level. Traditional undergraduate students in the bachelor degree programs completed a liberal arts core and chose from nineteen majors and twenty-six minors, many of which focused on pre-professional preparation. All traditional undergraduates were required to complete at least one internship and a senior capstone project. The Class of 2022 reported a 100 percent success rate (employed or in graduate school) six months after graduation. Many of the graduate and professional programs focused on health science related fields that supported regional workforce needs. Graduate and professional programs were offered in person as well as online. Students enrolled in the traditional and graduate nursing programs completed clinical experiences at a hospital classified as a Level 1 trauma center. The institution supported all degree programs with academic support services (library, tutoring, career development) and financial assistance through gifts, grants, endowment income and college resources, which assisted students in financing the cost of their attendance.
Expenses $29,193,319 · Grants $8,613,544 · Revenue $18,992,359
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Auxiliary services provided food service and facilities to students as part of a residential institution; student services provided additional support for athletics, health and counseling, student activities, and student government.
Expenses $5,307,478 · Revenue $13,183,127
As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
Officers and directors · 2024
As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
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Lisa M Hogarty
Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Barbara-Jan Wilson
Vice Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Jourdain K P Bell
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Collin D Bray
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Wendy G Carey
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Aimee M Claiborne
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Deborah L Coffin
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Thomas C Csatari
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Ann Carroll Harris
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Amy Hedison
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Susan MacMichael John
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Bruce P King
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Beth Constantinides Meurlin
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
William H Mitchell
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Margaret V Mulley
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
JoAnn Franke Overfield
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Susan D Pomerantz
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Sally Shaw Veitch
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Stephen Wright
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Dean G McCurdy
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
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Karen Bonewald
VP of Finance & Administration
- Total calculated
- $198,047
- From this org
- $193,208
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $4,839
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $193,208
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $3,864
- Nontaxable benefits
- $975
- Filer's total
- $198,047
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Laura Sykes
Past Interim President
- Total calculated
- $212,036
- From this org
- $192,604
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $19,432
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $192,604
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $3,852
- Nontaxable benefits
- $15,580
- Filer's total
- $212,036
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Eden Wales
VP Academic
- Total calculated
- $221,214
- From this org
- $198,074
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $23,140
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $198,074
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $3,961
- Nontaxable benefits
- $19,179
- Filer's total
- $221,214
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Daniel Parish
VP Advancement
- Total calculated
- $169,065
- From this org
- $165,400
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $3,665
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $165,400
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $3,308
- Nontaxable benefits
- $357
- Filer's total
- $169,065
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Valerie Leclair
VP Enrollment Management
- Total calculated
- $203,065
- From this org
- $165,283
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $37,782
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $165,283
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $3,306
- Nontaxable benefits
- $34,476
- Filer's total
- $203,065
The first 25 listed. 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
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2024
- Revenue
- $48,161,648
- Expenses
- $46,598,272
- Contributions
- $12,420,636
- Grants paid
- $8,613,544
-
2023
- Revenue
- $47,976,864
- Expenses
- $44,319,760
- Contributions
- $13,758,077
- Grants paid
- $7,318,215
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2022
- Revenue
- $69,063,751
- Expenses
- $63,833,439
- Contributions
- $18,779,976
- Grants paid
- $25,692,985
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
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2023 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
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2022 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
-
2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $70,178,771
- Expenses
- $60,469,284
- Assets (EOY)
- $123,153,780
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2021 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
-
2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $73,333,222
- Expenses
- $56,314,928
- Assets (EOY)
- $126,086,266
-
2020 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
-
2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $60,499,117
- Expenses
- $55,500,985
- Assets (EOY)
- $106,205,633
-
2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $58,426,074
- Expenses
- $54,451,236
- Assets (EOY)
- $102,893,055
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $54,612,165
- Expenses
- $57,877,912
- Assets (EOY)
- $99,970,548
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $71,874,014
- Expenses
- $61,733,947
- Assets (EOY)
- $100,948,303
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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.
Grants made
No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.
Grants received
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MARY HITCHCOCK MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
$543,306
2022 EDUCATIONAL SERVICES
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2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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2022 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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MARY HITCHCOCK MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
$69,008
2023 EDUCATIONAL SERVICES
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MARY HITCHCOCK MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
$56,044
2024 EDUCATIONAL SERVICES
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$35,000
2022 Distribution from donor advised fund
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2023 FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE
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$29,575
2023 EDUCATIONAL SERVICES
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$25,352
2024 FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE
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
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MARION & JASPER WHITING FOUNDATION
On its 2024 return
Taxable family
From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.
Related corporations and trusts on its 2024 return
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Charitable Reminder Unitrusts (3)
Charitable Reminder Unitrusts · MA · controlled entity
California fundraising campaigns
Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.
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RUFFALO NOEL LEVITZ LLC
$25,888 raised
2024 Commercial Fundraiser
$17,872 to charity
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RUFFALO NOEL LEVITZ LLC
$10,480 raised
2024 Commercial Fundraiser
-$4,251 to charity
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RUFFALO NOEL LEVITZ LLC
$16,879 raised
2023 Commercial Fundraiser
$8,775 to charity
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RUFFALO NOEL LEVITZ LLC
$6,795 raised
2023 Commercial Fundraiser
$83 to charity
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RUFFALO NOEL LEVITZ LLC
$4,225 raised
2022 Commercial Fundraiser
$1,666 to charity
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RUFFALO NOEL LEVITZ LLC
$1,060 raised
2022 Commercial Fundraiser
-$5,267 to charity
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RUFFALO NOEL LEVITZ LLC
$5,557 raised
2021 Commercial Fundraiser
$1,152 to charity
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RUFFALO NOEL LEVITZ LLC
$1,695 raised
2021 Commercial Fundraiser
-$4,557 to charity
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RUFFALO NOEL LEVITZ LLC
$4,865 raised
2020 Commercial Fundraiser
$4,865 to charity
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RUFFALO NOEL LEVITZ LLC
$2,584 raised
2020 Commercial Fundraiser
-$3,795 to charity
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RUFFALO NOEL LEVITZ LLC
$12,160 raised
2019 Commercial Fundraiser
$2,592 to charity
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RUFFALO NOEL LEVITZ LLC
$6,564 raised
2019 Commercial Fundraiser
$6,564 to charity
Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.
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 11 November 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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.