Louisiana · Nonprofit
DILLARD UNIVERSITY
DILLARD UNIVERSITY (Louisiana) receives grants from 111 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,880,118 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($5,000,000). 58 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $51M
- Funders on record
- 111
- Grants received
- $21M
- Net assets
- $268M
What Dillard University does
Mission
Dillard University's mission is to produce graduates who excel and become world leaders and are broadly educated, culturally aware and concerned with improving the human condition.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Four year post secondary institution.
$31,400,555 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $31,400,555.
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 2024 to 2025, from $285M to $324M (+14%).
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 22% · 2018 5% · 2019 22% · 2020 21% · 2021 19% · 2022 41% · 2023 34% · 2024 46% · 2025 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
34% of DILLARD UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Michael Jones
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 40 funders, grant income rose $804k → $2.4M.
14 of 111 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: $13M from 11 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Negro College Fund Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money DILLARD UNIVERSITY raised.
From the IRS filings of DILLARD UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 111 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
DILLARD UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
54% 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 DILLARD UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 32% · 2019 43% · 2020 30% · 2021 64% · 2022 29% · 2023 30% — 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 DILLARD UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
DILLARD UNIVERSITY draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Louisiana, across 23 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.7M 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
DILLARD UNIVERSITY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding DILLARD UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $108.0M on record — $108.0M federal, $967 state.
- Department of Education$72.9M
- Environmental Protection Agency$20.0M
- National Science Foundation$5.7M
- Department of Defense$3.4M
- Department of Health and Human Services$3.2M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.1M
- DISTRIBUTION TO INDIVIDUALS$967
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 DILLARD 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 Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DILLARD 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 DILLARD UNIVERSITY?
- DILLARD UNIVERSITY (Louisiana) receives grants from 111 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,880,118 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($5,000,000). 58 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DILLARD UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 111 organizations giving $20,880,118 in grants to DILLARD UNIVERSITY, 58 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DILLARD UNIVERSITY?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $5,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DILLARD UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 111 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