Collegium Institute
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
Collegium Institute is a Catholic intellectual apostolate that fosters the Catholic intellectual tradition within the University of Pennsylvania community and within the greater region and secular academia. (Continued on Sch. O)
- Income
- $854,442
- Spending
- $770,368
- Spent on programs
- 87%
- Reserves
- 17.2 months of spending
- Largest source of income
- donations and private grants, 95%
- Employees
- 6
- Volunteers
- 20
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Financial health
Strong: 100 out of 100.
Reserves
35 of 35Spendable reserves would cover 17.2 months of spending.
Debt
20 of 20It owes 0% of what it owns.
Living within its means
15 of 15Income exceeded spending by 10% of income.
Income trend
15 of 15Income rose 13% on the year before.
Spending floor
15 of 1587% of spending went to programs and raising each dollar of donations cost 4 cents.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Governance
Strong: 100 out of 100.
Independent board
25 of 2516 of 16 voting board members are independent.
Conflict of interest policy
15 of 15Has a written conflict of interest policy.
Whistleblower policy
8 of 8Has a written whistleblower policy.
Record keeping policy
7 of 7Has a written policy on keeping and destroying records.
Board minutes
5 of 5Keeps minutes of board meetings.
Board sees the tax return
10 of 10Gave the board a copy of this return before filing it.
Independent check of accounts
15 of 15Its accounts were audited by an independent accountant.
No reported misuse
10 of 10Reports no diversion of assets, excess benefits or loans to insiders.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (1)
- $671,190 spent. Collegium conducts 22 programs that draw diverse academic fields into conversation with the Catholic intellectual tradition. Programs include Professions and the Good Life, the Liberal Arts Series, and the Theology Series. Collegium also hosts or co-hosts a diverse set of professional publications, student media platforms, projects, and university partnerships in addition to public events and lectures. Student engagement included 523 undergraduate, graduate, and high school students, 212 high school and university faculty, and 1,460 total participants across all events. See further information in Schedule O. Collegium conducts 22 programs during the academic semester that draw diverse academic fields into conversation with the Catholic intellectual tradition.Professions and the Good Life is comprised of five student fellowship programs that aim to help students explore, in dialogue with scholars and practitioners, how their professional vocations (in medicine, law, finance, the arts) can be integrated with commitments to virtue ethics, justice, and humanistic inquiry into lifes central questions.The Liberal Arts Series includes programs that explore the catholicin the sense ofuniversalquestions confronting students in their pursuit of meaningful, integrated lives. These programs include: Food for Thought, Lectio Humana, Undergraduate Fellows, Symposium, Koine Greek, Renaissance Latin, & Metropolitan Seminars for the Humanities and Public Life.The Theology Series includes programs that take a dynamic and interdisciplinaryapproach to explore the Catholic intellectual tradition as a reality lived out in the pilgrimage of our lives. These programs include Catholic Humanism, Young Catholic Leaders Initiative, Grad Fellows, Christian Thoughts-in-Progress, Faith in Fiction, Catholic Philosophical Tradition, and Global Catholic Literature.In addition, Collegium hosts or co-hosts a diverse set of professional publications, student media platforms, projects, and university partnerships which highlight mission-aligned inquiry happening within and beyond the University of Pennsylvania community. These very living partnerships highlight the living nature of the intellectual life, from newly published books, to ideas students are currently in conversation about within programs like Food for Thought or Catholic Humanism, as well as fostering the cultural heritage of the Catholic Church. Dappled Things Magazine, the premier Catholic literary journal in America, co-founded by Penn alumni in 2005, is a quarterly imprint of the Collegium Institute.For more information about Collegium Institute, please visit: www.collegiuminstitute.org
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated November 6, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Worth knowing.
Not individually listed by the IRS as eligible, which is usual for churches. The master file records contributions to it as deductible.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Worth knowing.
The IRS does not require this organization to file annual returns.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since March 1946.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated November 4, 2026.
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