Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY
ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 95 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,647,680 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($3,808,900). 54 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $121M
- Funders on record
- 95
- Grants received
- $9.6M
- Net assets
- $120M
What Alvernia University does
Mission
Alvernia University is a catholic comprehensive university with a liberal arts foundation founded by the bernardine franciscan sisters in 1958. See continuation on schedule o.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Conduct, operate and maintain a college for the education, training and spiritual guidance of men and women, with the power to confer upon students, who have successfully completed the required courses, the degree of bachelor of arts and the degree of bachelor of science, and such other degrees as may be approved and authorized by the department of education of the commonwealth of pennsylvania. The college has approximately 3,000 students, including undergraduates, graduates, and phd students.
$98,789,649 spentof which $38,833,082 as grants$101,943,619 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $98,789,649.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $194M to $219M (+13%).
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 9% · 2022 9% · 2023 5% · 2024 6% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
John Loyack
Consulting executive director
Board chair
Gregory J Shemanski
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $298k → $1.0M.
11 of 95 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $60k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Berks Alliance). These are real filings, and they are not money ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY raised.
From the IRS filings of ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 95 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
ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 59%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
62% 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 ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 20% · 2019 31% · 2020 33% · 2021 37% · 2022 76% · 2023 49% — growing more concentrated.
“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
26% of ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
54% of ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $4.4M that is directly attributable, 76% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Government funding ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $23.0M on record — $22.8M federal, $212k state.
- Department of Education$18.9M
- Corporation for National and Community Service$1.8M
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.6M
- National Science Foundation$400k
- Environmental Protection Agency$91k
- NJ$195k
- DE$15k
- CT$2k
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 ALVERNIA 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Bernardine Sisters of the Third Order of St Francis · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALVERNIA 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 ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY?
- ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 95 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,647,680 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($3,808,900). 54 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 95 organizations giving $9,647,680 in grants to ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY, 54 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,808,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 95 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