Bowdoin College: $355.2M Revenue, $275.4M Expenses

The composite efficiency score of 54/100 puts Bowdoin College at C — neither standout nor failing. Some factors run above the median (often reserves) while others run below (often revenue stability or officer-comp ratio).

Annual revenue at Bowdoin College runs $355.2M (2023), placing it among the larger U.S. nonprofits in the IRS Form 990 dataset. On the financial-health factor, Bowdoin College runs thin — assets relative to annual spending fall below the cushion nonprofit-finance experts typically recommend.

Revenue has grown meaningfully across the five-year filing history — a sign of expanding donor base, new grants, or scaling programs. Bowdoin College reported $355.2M in 2023, up notably from the start of the window. Officer compensation is modest relative to organizational size: Bowdoin College reports $7.0M in total compensation for current officers and key employees (Form 990 Part IX, line 5) against $355.2M in revenue. The ratio is well within the bands third-party charity raters consider reasonable at this scale. In the Education category, Bowdoin College sits alongside universities, K-12 systems, scholarship funds, and education-research organizations. Education-sector nonprofits often hold large endowments, which affects how the reserves-and-revenue figures should be read.