New York · Nonprofit
ADELPHI UNIVERSITY
ADELPHI UNIVERSITY (New York) receives grants from 160 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,634,627 to it, the largest being MOTHER CABRINI HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ($1,100,000). 93 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $369M
- Funders on record
- 160
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $400M
What Adelphi University does
Mission
Adelphi University is dedicated to transforming students' lives through small classes, hands-on learning and innovative programs supporting academic and career success.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Instruction and related academic support, student services and public support benefiting the community - the university provides a personalized education for all its undergraduate and graduate students. The average annualized enrollments for fiscal 2024-2025 was 6,680 fulltime students, comprised of 5,027 undergraduate and 1,653 graduate/ post baccalaureate full-time equivalent students. Students come from diverse backgrounds and are not only from the new york area, but from across the country and around the world. Adelphi's colleges and schools include the college of arts and sciences, the gordon f derner school of psychology, the honors college, and the college of education and health sciences, the robert b willumstad school of business, the college of nursing and public health, the school of social work, and the college of professional and continuing studies. Students have accessibility to student counseling, career counseling, financial aid, and mentoring and other services and programs offered by the university. Adelphi has extensive community health and human services outreach programs, including the hy weinberg center for communication disorders, the center for…
$327,774,323 spentof which $135,672,738 as grants$321,209,720 earned by the program100% of program spendingResidential housing and auxiliary enterprises - the university offers student housing in seven residence halls on its main campus in garden city, new york. There are numerous special living options within these halls, including those for students who identify as transgender or who don't wish to be identified by gender; first-year students selected for living-learning communities; and students in the honors college. Accessible housing is available for students with disabilities. In fall 2024 approximately 1,125 students lived in university residence halls.
$18,040,672 earned by the program
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $327,774,323.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $548M to $596M (+9%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 3% · 2018 2% · 2019 2% · 2020 4% · 2021 8% · 2022 6% · 2023 2% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
4% of ADELPHI UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Michael Balboni
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 35 funders to 60 funders, grant income rose $620k → $1.2M.
24 of 160 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ADELPHI UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 160 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ADELPHI UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 10% of grant income, and it takes 10 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 10 funders to its left
56% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ADELPHI UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 18% · 2018 16% · 2019 41% · 2020 21% · 2021 24% · 2022 32% · 2023 13% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
33% of ADELPHI UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
59% of ADELPHI UNIVERSITY's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ADELPHI UNIVERSITY's funding base is broadening — from 35 funders to 60 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding ADELPHI UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $53.6M on record — $53.5M federal, $85k state.
- Department of Education$28.9M
- Department of Health and Human Services$19.4M
- National Science Foundation$4.9M
- National Endowment for the Humanities$153k
- Department of the Interior$64k
- NJ$49k
- CT$35k
- FL$1k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ADELPHI UNIVERSITY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 18 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Blackcat Advertising Agency LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ADELPHI UNIVERSITY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ADELPHI UNIVERSITY?
- ADELPHI UNIVERSITY (New York) receives grants from 160 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,634,627 to it, the largest being MOTHER CABRINI HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ($1,100,000). 93 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ADELPHI UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 160 organizations giving $10,634,627 in grants to ADELPHI UNIVERSITY, 93 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ADELPHI UNIVERSITY?
- MOTHER CABRINI HEALTH FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ADELPHI UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 160 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing