Wisconsin · Nonprofit
CARDINAL STRITCH UNIVERSITY INC
CARDINAL STRITCH UNIVERSITY INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,089,713 to it, the largest being KELBEN FOUNDATION INC ($2,262,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 49
- Grants received
- $6.1M
- Net assets
- $27M
What Cardinal Stritch University Inc does
Mission
Cardinal stritch university is a comprehensive, coeducational, institution offering educational programs leading to associate, baccalaureate, masters and doctoral degrees in a variety of disciplines provided through its three colleges: college of undergraduate studies, college of graduate studies, and the ruth s. Coleman college of nursing and health sciences.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2023 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The organization is in the process of closing and as such they did not have undergraduate classes this year.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Cardinal stritch university is a comprehensive, coeducational, institution offering educational programs leading to associate, baccalaureate, masters and doctoral degrees in a variety of disciplines provided through its three colleges: college of undergraduate studies, college of graduate studies, and ruth s. Coleman college of nursing & health sciences.
$2,410,841 spentof which $23,500 as grants$9,891 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,410,841.
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 2022 to 2023, from $40M to $29M (−27%).
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 11% · 2021 8% · 2022 8% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
4% of CARDINAL STRITCH UNIVERSITY INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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 narrowed from 12 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $622k → $135k.
11 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 CARDINAL STRITCH UNIVERSITY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 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
CARDINAL STRITCH UNIVERSITY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 37% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
33% 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 CARDINAL STRITCH UNIVERSITY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 28% · 2019 49% · 2020 60% · 2021 82% · 2022 23% · 2023 44% — 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
15% of CARDINAL STRITCH UNIVERSITY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
74% of CARDINAL STRITCH UNIVERSITY INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M 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.
Against its field
CARDINAL STRITCH UNIVERSITY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CARDINAL STRITCH UNIVERSITY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.2M on record.
- Department of Education$6.2M
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 CARDINAL STRITCH UNIVERSITY INC
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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CARDINAL STRITCH UNIVERSITY INC: 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 CARDINAL STRITCH UNIVERSITY INC?
- CARDINAL STRITCH UNIVERSITY INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,089,713 to it, the largest being KELBEN FOUNDATION INC ($2,262,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CARDINAL STRITCH UNIVERSITY INC have?
- IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $6,089,713 in grants to CARDINAL STRITCH UNIVERSITY INC, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CARDINAL STRITCH UNIVERSITY INC?
- KELBEN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,262,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CARDINAL STRITCH UNIVERSITY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 49 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing