Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
CHATHAM UNIVERSITY
CHATHAM UNIVERSITY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 115 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,838,630 to it, the largest being NEWELL DOROTHY TW ($1,167,170). 63 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $98M
- Funders on record
- 115
- Grants received
- $9.8M
- Net assets
- $124M
What Chatham University does
Mission
Chatham University prepares women and men to be world ready: to build lives of purpose and value and fulfilling work. (see continuation on schedule o)in addition to appropriate professional skills and liberal arts learning, chatham believes that world readiness means being in informed and engaged citizen in one's communities: recognizing and respecting diversity of culture, identity and opinion; and living sustainably on the planet.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Academic and instructional education: accredited by the middle states commission on higher education, Chatham University is a coed institution that grants bachelor, master and doctorate level degrees through four distinctive schools: the falk school of sustainability & environment (housed within our eden hall campus, the world's first campus built from the ground up for the study of sustainability), the school of health sciences, the school of arts, science and business, and the school of continuing and professional studies. Students can choose from over 40 undergraduate majors and over 20 masters and doctoral programs, and online courses of study. The university's total enrollment as of fall 2024 was 2,314 students.student and community services: Chatham University strives to develop the whole student - both in and outside the classroom. We offer on and off-campus opportunities for professional skill-building and experiential learning. Internships and mentorships offer support. Student affairs play an integral role in helping our students enhance their physical, mental, and social well-being. Cougars care, an early intervention system to aid students in need and celebrate student…
$81,015,027 spentof which $31,228,363 as grants$75,298,344 earned by the program93% of program spendingAuxiliary services: in may 2008, the university received the 388-acre eden hall farm campus as a gift from the eden hall foundation. Located north of pittsburgh in richland township and approximately 20 miles from chatham's historic shadyside campus, eden hall campus is home to our falk school of sustainability & environment and offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs as well as programming for the surrounding communities.the university owns the oldest civil war-era home on fifth avenue, the howe-childs gate house, which now serves as a guest house for university visitors as well as headquarters for the campus arboretum. The university is home to the olkes collection of african art, one of the most significant collections of african tribal art in the tristate region.chatham offers a national collegiate athletic association (ncaa) division iii athletic program featuring twenty-one varsity sports (eleven women's and ten men's), anchored out of our impressive 78,000 square foot athletic and fitness center. In 2020, the university completed the renovation of upmc graham field, the historic home of wilkinsburg high school football. Upmc graham field is the home field for the…
$5,857,268 spent$9,217,154 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $86,872,295.
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 2021 to 2022, from $236M to $216M (−8%).
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 3% · 2021 7% · 2022 1% · 2023 7% · 2024 1% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
6% of CHATHAM UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% 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
David M Hall
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 44 funders, grant income rose $157k → $1.2M.
9 of 115 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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: $4.8M from 13 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Dietrich Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money CHATHAM UNIVERSITY raised.
From the IRS filings of CHATHAM UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 115 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
CHATHAM UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 22% · 2019 41% · 2020 19% · 2021 30% · 2022 20% · 2023 15% — diversifying over time.
“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
37% of CHATHAM UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
79% of CHATHAM UNIVERSITY's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M 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
CHATHAM UNIVERSITY's funding base is broadening — from 16 funders to 44 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding CHATHAM UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20.1M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$8.4M
- Department of Education$6.3M
- National Science Foundation$2.2M
- Small Business Administration$2.1M
- Department of Agriculture$972k
- Department of Defense$78k
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 CHATHAM 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- The Dietrich Foundation · exempt
- Charitable Gift Annuities (3) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHATHAM 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 CHATHAM UNIVERSITY?
- CHATHAM UNIVERSITY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 115 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,838,630 to it, the largest being NEWELL DOROTHY TW ($1,167,170). 63 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHATHAM UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 115 organizations giving $9,838,630 in grants to CHATHAM UNIVERSITY, 63 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHATHAM UNIVERSITY?
- NEWELL DOROTHY TW is the largest funder on record, with $1,167,170 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHATHAM UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 115 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