New York · Nonprofit
CANISIUS UNIVERSITY
CANISIUS UNIVERSITY (New York) receives grants from 107 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,165,027 to it, the largest being Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Inc ($2,238,812). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $111M
- Funders on record
- 107
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $227M
What Canisius University does
Mission
Canisius University is a private, independent roman catholic university, governed by an independent self perpetuating board of trustees under a charter granted by the board of trustees of the university of the state of new york. Established as a liberal arts college, the university has grown to include a graduate division, a school of business administration, a school of education and human services, and a summer session in addition to the college of arts and sciences.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education/instruction - provide education to 2,451 students in the fall and 2,338 students in the spring semesters.
$61,520,643 spentof which $33,060,254 as grants$69,507,613 earned by the program67% of program spendingStudent services - provide the necessary services required by the students enrolled in the programs.
$22,269,583 spent$5,829,933 earned by the program24% of program spendingResidence halls - provide room and board to all resident students and those students with meal plans.
$7,680,470 spent$9,283,381 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: $91,470,696.
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 $271M to $306M (+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 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 3% · 2020 5% · 2021 6% · 2022 8% · 2023 3% · 2024 2% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
15% of CANISIUS UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 21 funders to 42 funders, grant income rose $365k → $1.9M.
20 of 107 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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: $4.2M from 10 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest National Collegiate Athletic Association). These are real filings, and they are not money CANISIUS UNIVERSITY raised.
From the IRS filings of CANISIUS UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 107 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
CANISIUS UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% 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
45% 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 CANISIUS UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 28% · 2019 29% · 2020 21% · 2021 25% · 2022 22% · 2023 30% — 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
52% of CANISIUS UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
CANISIUS UNIVERSITY draws 64% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 17 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
CANISIUS 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 CANISIUS UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20.7M on record.
- Department of Education$16.6M
- Small Business Administration$1.8M
- Department of Defense$924k
- Department of Energy$547k
- Department of Health and Human Services$452k
- National Science Foundation$385k
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 CANISIUS 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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CANISIUS 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 CANISIUS UNIVERSITY?
- CANISIUS UNIVERSITY (New York) receives grants from 107 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,165,027 to it, the largest being Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Inc ($2,238,812). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CANISIUS UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 107 organizations giving $15,165,027 in grants to CANISIUS UNIVERSITY, 65 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CANISIUS UNIVERSITY?
- Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Inc is the largest funder on record, with $2,238,812 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CANISIUS 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 107 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