Ohio · Nonprofit
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY (Ohio) receives grants from 778 organizations whose IRS filings report $521,750,570 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($40,985,172). 497 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7B
- Funders on record
- 778
- Grants received
- $522M
- Net assets
- $3.5B
What Case Western Reserve University does
Mission
Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social work. The University's commitment to excellence in teaching, research and scholarship. The University brings together highly qualified faculty, students and staff to: (1) Offer undergraduate education that preserves the strengths of traditional disciplinary majors while integrating contents and methods from technology, the arts and sciences, and the professions, (2) Prepare students for positions of leadership in professions that are important to society, and (3) Advance, through research and scholarship the understanding of its chosen disciplines and their applications.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The academic programs of Case Western Reserve University are administered through its schools and colleges. Currently 12,545 students are enrolled in programs leading to undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees administered through the university's nine schools: the case school of engineering, the college of arts and sciences, the mandel school of applied social sciences, the school of dental medicine, the school of graduate studies, the school of law, the weatherhead school of management, the school of medicine and the frances payne bolton school of nursing.
$812,032,232 spentof which $291,467,862 as grants$682,911,153 earned by the program55% of program spendingCase Western Reserve University is classified as a research university (very high research activity) - extensive by the carnegie commission on higher education. This classification is given to those institutions that train the greatest number of future researchers (usually measured by the number of phd students) and to those institutions that receive the most federal funds. In addition to federal sources, research in the sciences, the humanities and the health sciences area is funded by gifts and grants from private foundations, corporations and individuals.
$446,760,775 spentof which $40,707,528 as grants30% of program spendingAuxiliaries provides several services which, although not directly related to its academic mission, are nevertheless an integral part of the overall educational experience of its students. The provision of campus housing and board plans, and phone services are examples of current auxiliary services.
$103,405,524 spent$108,262,146 earned by the program7% of program spendingOther sponsored programs: the university's library system is composed of four primary units: the university library, the cleveland health sciences library, the school of law library and the lillian & milford harris library in the mandel school of applied social sciences. The libraries of the university support the undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and contain over 3 million volumes. Case Western Reserve University offers assistance to its students to help meet financial need or to recognize outstanding academic achievement and promise. Academic excellence is recognized by the academic awards program and other scholarship programs of the undergraduate colleges and by various assistantships, fellowships, scholarships and other awards of individual departments in the school of graduate studies and several of the professional schools. Case Western Reserve University actively promotes the development of services and programs to support the physical, emotional and intellectual well-being of its students.' the programs and services are available to undergraduate, graduate and professional students alike and are designed to provide positive, developmental opportunities…
$110,072,295 spent$47,199,478 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,472,270,826.
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 $3.3B to $3.9B (+18%).
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 25% · 2018 25% · 2019 26% · 2020 25% · 2021 24% · 2022 23% · 2023 25% · 2024 25% · 2025 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
41% of CASE WESTERN RESERVE 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. 0 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
Julie Gerberding MD MPH
Chair of the Board of Trustees
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 204 funders to 331 funders, grant income rose $36M → $72M.
85 of 778 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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: $83M from 4 payers (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Case Alumni Association Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY raised.
From the IRS filings of CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 778 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
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 8% of grant income, and it takes 25 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 25 funders to its left
65% 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 CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 8% · 2018 13% · 2019 11% · 2020 17% · 2021 9% · 2022 8% · 2023 7% — broadly stable.
“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
47% of CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY draws 64% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 43 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $117M arriving through sponsors registered in 29 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
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY runs a healthier operating margin 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 CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.3B on record — $2.3B federal, $34k state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.0B
- Department of Defense$139.7M
- National Science Foundation$103.5M
- Department of Energy$59.6M
- Department of Education$32.2M
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$17.6M
- MA$24k
- DE$10k
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 CASE WESTERN RESERVE 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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 16 states
Part of a family of 6 related entities
- Erie Timber LLC · disregarded
- Erie Forest Investments LLC · disregarded
- Case Dental Medicine Support Services LLC · disregarded
- Cwru School of Dentistry Admin Support LLC · disregarded
- FPB Clinical Practice LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY?
- CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY (Ohio) receives grants from 778 organizations whose IRS filings report $521,750,570 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($40,985,172). 497 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 778 organizations giving $521,750,570 in grants to CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY, 497 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY?
- THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $40,985,172 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CASE WESTERN RESERVE 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 778 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