Michigan · Nonprofit
DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY
DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY (Michigan) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,916,103 to it, the largest being ME DAVENPORT FUND A PRIVATE FOUNDATION INC ($2,846,358). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $126M
- Funders on record
- 61
- Grants received
- $6.9M
- Net assets
- $72M
What Davenport University does
Mission
Davenport University prepares individuals and organizations to excel in the knowledge-driven environment of the 21st century.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provide education to approximately 5,000 students at locations throughout michigan, including over 3,000 sections of courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels of post-secondary education in business, health, and technology.
$108,938,331 spentof which $42,497,502 as grants$115,340,393 earned by the program99% of program spendingEducating business professionals through non-credit courses in various areas.
$1,023,701 spent$1,520,402 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $109,962,032.
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 2023 to 2024, from $156M to $144M (−7%).
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 5% · 2022 12% · 2023 2% · 2024 2% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
6% of DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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
Paula Cunningham
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $71k → $1.6M.
13 of 61 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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: $18M from 7 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Davenport University Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY raised.
From the IRS filings of DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 61 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
DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 58% · 2019 49% · 2020 60% · 2021 45% · 2022 34% · 2023 27% — 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
33% of DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
95% of DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY's funding base is broadening — from 9 funders to 29 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $34.4M on record — $34.4M federal, $395 state.
- Department of Education$23.8M
- National Science Foundation$5.9M
- Department of Health and Human Services$4.3M
- Department of the Treasury$420k
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $395
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 DAVENPORT 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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
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
- Davenport University Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DAVENPORT 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 DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY?
- DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY (Michigan) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,916,103 to it, the largest being ME DAVENPORT FUND A PRIVATE FOUNDATION INC ($2,846,358). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 61 organizations giving $6,916,103 in grants to DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY?
- ME DAVENPORT FUND A PRIVATE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,846,358 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 61 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