Babson College
Overview
Mission
To educate entrepreneurial leaders who create great economic and social value everywhere.
What it reported doing in 2024
Babson college enrolls approximately 2,800 undergraduate and nearly 1,100 graduate students from the united states and more than 80 countries worldwide. The college offers education in business and liberal arts, and it grants the bachelor of science degree through its undergraduate program. The college also grants master of business administration degrees and custom master of science degrees through the f.w. Olin graduate school of business at babson college. Additionally, babson offers distinct executive education programs to help companies reach their strategic goals.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 82% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 78% for direct work, and 22% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 042103544
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Website reviewed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Headquarters
- Babson Park, MA, USA
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Universities
The verdict
SUPPORTED - 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: 67
- Accountability: 86
- Sustainability: 68
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.9%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 86.6%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.79 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th 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: 96.9%; rating input score 97; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Public governance controls: 1 of 4 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.9%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 3.77; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.19; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.9%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 86.9% of revenue deployed · 86.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 31 of 32 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $289.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.2M · 42 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 41 of 41 current checks pass
- 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: 11 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link