Dartmouth
Overview
Mission
Dartmouth educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge. Dartmouth supports the vigorous and open debate of ideas within a community marked by mutual respect. Dartmouth bridges arts and sciences. Teaching and scholarship. Learning and leading. Our region and the world. These connections thrive at the heart of our academic enterprise. We are responsible for developing, implementing, and overseeing diversity programs and executing our mission of promoting unity and respect within its community. DICE serves as an advisor to underrepresented students and student groups and works to support and ensure the success and retention of all minority students, faculty, and staff. Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies: Diversity Initiatives We believe...
What it reported doing in 2024
Education and Academic Support: A Dartmouth education is unlike any other. Through person-to-person teaching and opportunities to create and apply knowledge on campus and across the globe, we instill a love of learning and a passion for success. We educate global citizens, gifted writers and artists, wise business leaders, thoughtful doctors, and compassionate engineers. Our faculty are deeply invested in nurturing creativity as well as critical thinking. Our students can explore the cultural underpinnings and economic impacts of great works while creating their own masterpieces, all with the guidance and support of world-class masters of their crafts. Academics at Dartmouth are innovative, interdisciplinary, international, and individualized for each student. Each student's experience is distinguished by breadth, depth, and personal connections with top faculty. The institution comprises the Faculty of the Arts & Sciences, the Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies, and three professional schools: the Thayer School of Engineering, the Tuck School of Business, and the Geisel School of Medicine. Dartmouth's approximately 1,050-person faculty teaches and guides approximately 6,950 undergraduate and graduate students. Dartmouth's library system directly supports the research and teaching mission of Dartmouth College, as well as the life-long learning needs of the Dartmouth community, by providing access to multiple types of resources, including approximately 2.2 million printed volumes, 54,000 microform volumes, 87,000 other physical formats, 455,000 network resources and 2 million electronic books. State-of-the-art computing resources are available to faculty and students to foster innovation and excellence in research and in the curriculum.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 79% for direct work, and 21% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 020222111
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Website reviewed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Headquarters
- Hanover, NH, USA
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Universities
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and the filing reports few safeguards for setting executive pay.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 92
- Sustainability: 86
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 85.6%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: $11.53 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.7%; rating input score 95; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
- Public monitoring controls: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Public policy transparency: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Public financial transparency: 0 of 5 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Impact reporting controls: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Public relationship transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 96.3%; rating input score 96; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Public governance controls: 2 of 4 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 28.4%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 8.1; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.5%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 81% of revenue deployed · 85.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 26 of 27 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.4B in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $5.1M · 45 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 47 of 48 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 13 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 16 annual filings from 2009 to 2024
- Money network: 52 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 40 filed related-organization links