Delaware · Nonprofit
DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY
DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY (Delaware) receives grants from 104 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,599,717 to it, the largest being UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ($20,855,950). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $275M
- Funders on record
- 104
- Grants received
- $65M
- Net assets
- $-23974194
What Delaware State University does
Mission
Delaware State University is a public, comprehensive, 1890 land-grant institution that offers access and opportunity to diverse populations from delaware, the nation, and the world. (continued on schedule o.)building on its heritage as a historically black college, the university purposefully integrates the highest standards of excellence in teaching, research, and service in its baccalaureate, master's and doctoral programs. Its commitment to advance science, technology, liberal arts, and the professions produces capable and productive leaders who contribute to the sustainability and economic development of the global community vision statement. As one of america's most highly respected historically black colleges and universities, Delaware State University will be renowned for a standard of academic excellence that prepares our graduates to become the first choice of employers in a global market and invigorates the economy and the culture of delaware and the mid-atlantic region.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Delaware State University is a preeminent institution of higher learning that provides a liberal arts education. Some statistics about the university, at a glance: 52 undergraduate degree programs, 27 master's degree programs, 7 doctoral degree programs, accredited by the commission of higher education of the middle states, association of colleges & schools, as well as 7 specialized academic accrediting agencies. William c. Jason library includes a collection of 214,539 printed volumes, 100 electronic databases, 17,255 electronic journals, 417,930 electronic books, 8,453 streaming media content, and total holdings of 658,277 publications.(continued on schedule o.)faculty profile - 220 faculty members within 17 academics departments. 189 faculty members possess a ph.d. Or a terminal degree (terminal master's of flight captain). Student-to-faculty ratio is 17:1. Total enrollment 6,280, 73% full-time, 27% part-time; 44% live on campus, 56% commute; 54% in the following programs: management, accounting, nursing, biological sciences, kinesiology, liberal studies, psychology/social sciences, and related programs.
$53,426,609 spentof which $43,416,396 as grants$82,978,265 earned by the program36% of program spendingThe mission of the office of the associate provost for research (oapr) is "to provide those individuals who are admitted quality research opportunities and experiences that are consistent with the overall university commitment." the research division is also responsible for maintaining an infrastructure within a supportive environment that encourages both faculty and students to produce research with results that are making our world better every day. Prestigious research projects underway by dsu faculty members serve to enhance dsu's land-grant mission and its contributions to the nation's research efforts.
$49,131,809 spent$5,489,409 earned by the program33% of program spendingAuxiliary enterprises: the school undertakes a number of activities to benefit the student body, including operating housing (dormitory) complexes, a cafeteria, campus book store, vending machines, and other incidentals necessary to campus life. These activities might also include student services, institutional support, academic support, public service, and other services.
$45,882,999 spent$30,859,743 earned by the program31% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $148,441,417.
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 2019 to 2020, from $292M to $387M (+32%).
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 47% · 2018 45% · 2019 47% · 2020 53% · 2021 49% · 2022 51% · 2023 54% · 2024 49% · 2025 52%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
55% of DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 3 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
Leroy A Tice Esq
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $5.7M → $7.9M.
16 of 104 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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: $49M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Delaware State University Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY raised.
From the IRS filings of DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 104 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
DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
87% 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 DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 80% · 2019 72% · 2020 54% · 2021 84% · 2022 60% · 2023 44% — 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
26% of DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
50% of DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY's grant income comes from Delaware funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY has grown faster 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 DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $390.0M on record — $346.1M federal, $44.0M state.
- Department of Education$164.6M
- Department of Agriculture$74.4M
- Department of Health and Human Services$57.8M
- National Science Foundation$22.1M
- Department of Defense$19.2M
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$3.3M
- DE$43.6M
- NJ$381k
- OR$200
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 DELAWARE STATE 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 Delaware
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
54% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Delaware State University Foundation Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DELAWARE STATE 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 DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY?
- DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY (Delaware) receives grants from 104 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,599,717 to it, the largest being UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ($20,855,950). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 104 organizations giving $64,599,717 in grants to DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY, 49 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY?
- UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE is the largest funder on record, with $20,855,950 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. 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 104 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