Illinois · Nonprofit
DEPAUL UNIVERSITY
DEPAUL UNIVERSITY (Illinois) receives grants from 389 organizations whose IRS filings report $81,251,179 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($8,097,500). 214 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $967M
- Funders on record
- 389
- Grants received
- $81M
- Net assets
- $1.6B
What Depaul University does
Mission
As an innovative catholic, vincentian university anchored in the global city of chicago, depaul supports the integral human development of its students. The university does so through its commitment to outstanding teaching, academic excellence, (continued in schedule o)
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Student and other financial aid - this category includes expenditures for all forms of institutional aid and accounted for approximately 37% of total university expenses, making it second only to salaries and benefits as the largest expenditure category in terms of both percentage and dollars. Over $349 million of the total expenditures represented aid, which provided financial assistance to the university's students during the academic year. In addition, the above total also includes over $12 million in aid to university faculty and staff, including their spouses and dependents, in the form of employee tuition waivers, which are provided as part of a written benefits program available to all qualifying university employees.
$352,961,044 spentof which $352,961,044 as grants42% of program spendingInstruction - fall enrollment for the 2024/25 academic year totaled 20,637, making depaul the nation's largest catholic university for the twentieth consecutive year. The above total included 14,338 undergraduate students and 6,299 graduate and professional students. Of the university's total enrollment, for the 2024/25 academic year, approximately 53% were students of color and approximately 56% were women. The university offered nearly 300 comprehensive and innovative undergraduate and graduate programs during the 2025 academic year, along with a broad curriculum for adult continuing education.
$266,708,194 spent$781,746,887 earned by the program32% of program spendingStudent services - this category consists of student related expenditures other than those related to instruction, include graduation and advertising expenses. Expenses related to offices that support the university's students, such as the university's enrollment management office, university ministry, career center, student affairs, financial aid office, registrar, and student life offices are also included in this category.
$73,379,444 spent$118,178 earned by the program9% of program spendingOther program servicesacademic support - this category includes expenditures related to the provision of instructional support for the university's faculty and students, including university library services, dean's offices, and information technology. Auxiliary services - this category includes expenditures related to areas which help to enrich student's overall college experience beyond academics. Expenditures include those related to university housing services, which provided housing for approximately 2,000 university students during the academic year. Expenditures also support the university's student centers, which provide a number of student services, including dining services and student life programs. Expenditures related to the university's bookstores are also included in this category, along with student recreation activities, such as the university's ray meyer recreation center. Public service - this category includes expenditures related to programs that impact the public, including the university's community based service learning program, which provides students the opportunity to serve the community, while earning university credit. Also included in this category…
$138,816,117 spent$51,111,326 earned by the program17% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $831,864,799.
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 $1.8B to $2.0B (+11%).
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 2% · 2021 5% · 2022 6% · 2023 2% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
7% of DEPAUL UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Mr Michael Scudder
Chair & trustee
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 73 funders to 152 funders, grant income rose $5.2M → $11M.
39 of 389 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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: $37M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Big East Conference Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money DEPAUL UNIVERSITY raised.
From the IRS filings of DEPAUL UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 389 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
DEPAUL UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 10% of grant income, and it takes 11 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 11 funders to its left
50% 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 DEPAUL UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 19% · 2018 19% · 2019 18% · 2020 9% · 2021 13% · 2022 11% · 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
46% of DEPAUL 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
53% of DEPAUL UNIVERSITY's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30M arriving through sponsors registered in 20 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
DEPAUL UNIVERSITY's funding base is broadening — from 73 funders to 152 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding DEPAUL UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $136.3M on record — $136.3M federal, $56k state.
- Department of Education$93.5M
- Department of Health and Human Services$20.4M
- National Science Foundation$18.9M
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$2.2M
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$575k
- Department of Justice$507k
- NJ$53k
- OR$3k
- FL$189
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 DEPAUL 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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 6 states
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Congregation of the Mission - West Prov · exempt
- Barat College · exempt
- Charitable Remainder Trusts (4) · corp_trust
- Charitable Remainder Unitrusts (2) · corp_trust
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DEPAUL 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 DEPAUL UNIVERSITY?
- DEPAUL UNIVERSITY (Illinois) receives grants from 389 organizations whose IRS filings report $81,251,179 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($8,097,500). 214 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DEPAUL UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 389 organizations giving $81,251,179 in grants to DEPAUL UNIVERSITY, 214 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DEPAUL UNIVERSITY?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $8,097,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DEPAUL UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 389 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