Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
ARCADIA UNIVERSITY
ARCADIA UNIVERSITY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 114 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,370,049 to it, the largest being THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ($1,162,273). 54 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $188M
- Funders on record
- 114
- Grants received
- $8.4M
- Net assets
- $140M
What Arcadia University does
Mission
Arcadia University's pioneering, global, integrated, liberal arts, and professional learning experience cultivates leaders who are intellectually fearless and uniquely prepared for life and work. Our highly regarded, values-based learning community reflects the world in which we want to live.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Arcadia University offers a high-quality liberal arts education. Students choose from over 65 major fields of study in the sciences, health sciences, education, arts and humanities, and business earning their bachelor's, master's, professional certificates, and doctoral degrees. 99% of arcadia's full-time undergraduate students receive financial assistance in the form of grants and scholarships. Arcadia also offers students academic support programs, including the gateway to success program, which includes act101 services for pa residents who qualify. Students receive personal attention and resources throughout the academic year to help them succeed.
$119,681,000 spentof which $50,962,000 as grants$116,740,000 earned by the program75% of program spendingArcadians are driven to seek, experience, and understand broad and varied perspectives, preparing them to thrive in an interconnected world. Arcadia University is distinct in that our undergraduate and graduate students engage in real-world learning opportunities, including internships, evidence-based research, service learning, multi-disciplinary and experential learning that expands beyond the classroom. The arcadia undergraduate curiculum (auc) ensures immersion with global issues through study abroad or domestic programming. Arcadia continues to rank nationally for study abroad participation and provides one of the most extensive university study abroad programs in the nation. Our global programs continue to educate over 3,000 undergraduate students from u.s. Institutions every year.
$26,574,000 spentof which $873,000 as grants$46,698,000 earned by the program17% of program spendingWe believe that living in close proximity to people from different backgrounds is a critically important way for students to learn important life skills, and we treat residential life as an important opportunity for learning. Our desire is to ensure that students' living arrangements support and enhance their educational work and goals. While our primary goal is to provide safe living environments conducive to study and academic success, we encourage and support the development of the following core competencies in our students: diversity and inclusion; global perspectives; civic engagement; citizenship; self-advocacy; problem-solving; respect for others; and the development of identity, purpose, and integrity. Within the residence halls and apartments, an engaged team of professional and paraprofessional staff use the physical structure of the living environment as a tool to maximize learning moments and challenge students to develop and apply these competencies.
$12,268,000 spentof which $2,690,000 as grants$15,578,000 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $158,523,000.
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 2021 to 2022, from $270M to $251M (−7%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 4% · 2022 7% · 2023 2% · 2024 1% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of ARCADIA 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. 4 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
Andrew Law
CEO, arcadia abroad
Board chair
John Rollins
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 27 funders to 39 funders, grant income rose $280k → $1.4M.
17 of 114 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 ARCADIA UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 114 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
ARCADIA UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
58% 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 ARCADIA UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 14% · 2018 11% · 2019 23% · 2020 24% · 2021 64% · 2022 21% · 2023 18% — 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
36% of ARCADIA UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
50% of ARCADIA UNIVERSITY's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
ARCADIA UNIVERSITY is better cushioned than half of the 684 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding ARCADIA UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20.6M on record — $20.3M federal, $334k state.
- Department of Education$15.3M
- National Science Foundation$3.1M
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.2M
- Department of Justice$600k
- NJ$329k
- DE$5k
- FL$834
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 ARCADIA 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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 7 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARCADIA 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 ARCADIA UNIVERSITY?
- ARCADIA UNIVERSITY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 114 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,370,049 to it, the largest being THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ($1,162,273). 54 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARCADIA UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 114 organizations giving $8,370,049 in grants to ARCADIA UNIVERSITY, 54 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARCADIA UNIVERSITY?
- THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY is the largest funder on record, with $1,162,273 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARCADIA 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 114 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