Washington · Nonprofit
CITY UNIVERSITY OF SEATTLE
CITY UNIVERSITY OF SEATTLE (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,316 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $49M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $18k
- Net assets
- $29M
What City University of Seattle does
Mission
See schedule ofounded in 1973, City University of Seattle's mission is to change lives for good by offering high quality and relevant lifelong education to anyone with the desire to learn. City university's vision is to provide underserved individuals and communities around the world access to high quality, lifelong education through a network of local and international partnerships. To fulfill its mission and work toward achieving its vision, City University of Seattle determines to be flexible: design and deliver programs and services to be convenient to students; accessible: provide educational opportunities to anyone, anywhere; innovative: continually create new educational opportunities; relevant: what is taught today can be applied tomorrow; and global: act locally and think globally.City University of Seattle is accredited by the northwest commission on colleges and universities (nwccu), a regional body approved by the u.s. Department of education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
City University of Seattle is a private, not-for-profit university with approximately 6,550 enrollments during the year ended june 30, 2025. All grants under financial aid go to students to finance their education. The university is comprised of the school of business management, the school of education and leadership, the school of health and social sciences, the washington academy of languages, and the school of technology and computing. Headquartered in the pacific northwest, City University of Seattle offers professional certification, associates, bachelors, master's, and doctoral programs. Classes are held at locations throughout washington, canada, mexico, slovakia, the czech republic, vietnam, and china.
$26,657,668 spent$47,795,514 earned by the program98% of program spendingCity University of Seattle believes that funding should not be a barrier to education. The university has multiple scholarship programs available for students who are low-income experiencing economic hardship, or dependent on merit-based scholarships. City University of Seattle continues the transfer scholarship program to assist students.
$679,906 spentof which $679,906 as grants2% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $27,337,574.
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 $35M to $62M (+78%).
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 8% · 2021 0% · 2022 5% · 2023 4% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of CITY UNIVERSITY OF SEATTLE’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. 2 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
Dr Mark Milliron
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $8k → $16.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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: $5.5M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest National University). These are real filings, and they are not money CITY UNIVERSITY OF SEATTLE raised.
From the IRS filings of CITY UNIVERSITY OF SEATTLE’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.
How concentrated its funding is
CITY UNIVERSITY OF SEATTLE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 CITY UNIVERSITY OF SEATTLE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
55% of CITY UNIVERSITY OF SEATTLE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $8k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
CITY UNIVERSITY OF SEATTLE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding CITY UNIVERSITY OF SEATTLE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.4M on record.
- Department of Education$3.1M
- Department of Defense$255k
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 CITY UNIVERSITY OF SEATTLE
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 6 related entities
- National University Foundation · exempt
- National University Virtual High School · exempt
- John F Kennedy University · exempt
- Spectrum Pacific Learning Inc · exempt
- National University · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CITY UNIVERSITY OF SEATTLE: 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 CITY UNIVERSITY OF SEATTLE?
- CITY UNIVERSITY OF SEATTLE (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,316 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CITY UNIVERSITY OF SEATTLE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $18,316 in grants to CITY UNIVERSITY OF SEATTLE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CITY UNIVERSITY OF SEATTLE?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CITY UNIVERSITY OF SEATTLE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 3 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