Ohio · Nonprofit
CAPITAL UNIVERSITY
CAPITAL UNIVERSITY (Ohio) receives grants from 109 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,486,428 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($2,363,896). 71 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $122M
- Funders on record
- 109
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $241M
What Capital University does
Mission
Capital University transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Capital University provides academic opportunities to 1,609 undergraduate and 654 graduate and professional students. The university offers four undergraduate degrees with more than 70 majors, and graduate degrees in law, business, nursing, music, education, and theology taught by approximately 131 full-time faculty. More than 1,551 undergraduate and 559 graduate and professional students receive institutional financial assistance in the form of scholarships and grants. Since capital is in a metropolitan setting in the columbus surburb of bexley, students enjoy many academic, cultural, recreational and social activities. In addition to the graduate programs housed on the main campus in bexley, the Capital University law school is located in downtown columbus providing students the prospect of enhancing their education through internships and opportunities with federal, state, and county agencies and with law firms in ohio's capital city. The academic experience at capital includes a rich variety of internships and educational opportunities for students with national corporations, health, and other non-profit agencies and governmental offices.
$102,967,583 spentof which $50,591,010 as grants$88,053,957 earned by the program90% of program spendingAuxiliary enterprise operations primarily furnish goods and services to students, faculty and staff. It is managed as a self-supporting activity and consist primarily dining and housing services.
$11,897,409 spent$10,402,249 earned by the program10% of program spendingOther consists of miscellaneous fees and program revenues.
$0 spent$1,087,842 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $114,864,992.
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 2017 to 2018, from $229M to $283M (+23%).
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 2% · 2021 6% · 2022 6% · 2023 9% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
6% of CAPITAL 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. 6 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
Marti Taylor
Chair(through 6/25)
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 26 funders to 36 funders, grant income rose $1.3M → $2.4M.
24 of 109 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 CAPITAL UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 109 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
CAPITAL UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% 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 CAPITAL UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 23% · 2019 45% · 2020 11% · 2021 25% · 2022 45% · 2023 52% — 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
49% of CAPITAL UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
CAPITAL UNIVERSITY draws 76% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 20 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.3M 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
CAPITAL UNIVERSITY's funding base is broadening — from 26 funders to 36 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding CAPITAL UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $13.0M on record.
- Department of Education$12.8M
- Department of Health and Human Services$218k
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 CAPITAL 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Charitable Remainder Trusts (2) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CAPITAL 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 CAPITAL UNIVERSITY?
- CAPITAL UNIVERSITY (Ohio) receives grants from 109 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,486,428 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($2,363,896). 71 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CAPITAL UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 109 organizations giving $12,486,428 in grants to CAPITAL UNIVERSITY, 71 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CAPITAL UNIVERSITY?
- COLUMBUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,363,896 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAPITAL UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 109 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