Nonprofit
CARLETON UNIVERSITY
CARLETON UNIVERSITY receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $423,340 to it, the largest being GREAT LAKES FISHERY TRUST INC ($423,340). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $582M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $423k
- Net assets
- $1.0B
What Carleton University does
Mission
Carleton University provides post secondary education
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
General operations, plant fund, scholarship and bursaries
$393,025,330 spentof which $34,479,111 as grants$232,478,563 earned by the program73% of program spendingSponsored and contract research
$93,241,106 spentof which $5,719,293 as grants$107,599,555 earned by the program17% of program spendingAncillary operations
$55,770,181 spentof which $33 as grants$80,128,876 earned by the program10% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2026 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $542,036,617.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $1.1B to $1.4B (+24%).
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: 2020 25% · 2021 27% · 2022 25% · 2023 25% · 2024 24% · 2025 23% · 2026 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of CARLETON UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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.
Organizations like CARLETON 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.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Carleton University Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CARLETON 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CARLETON UNIVERSITY?
- CARLETON UNIVERSITY receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $423,340 to it, the largest being GREAT LAKES FISHERY TRUST INC ($423,340). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CARLETON UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $423,340 in grants to CARLETON UNIVERSITY.
- Who is the largest funder of CARLETON UNIVERSITY?
- GREAT LAKES FISHERY TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $423,340 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CARLETON UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2026 (financials across 2020–2026), and the filings of 1 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