Illinois · Nonprofit
DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY
DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY (Illinois) receives grants from 115 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,066,584 to it, the largest being WESTLAKE HEALTH FOUNDATION ($5,162,000). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $136M
- Funders on record
- 115
- Grants received
- $21M
- Net assets
- $124M
What Dominican University does
Mission
Dominican University provides instruction to students seeking an Associates, Undergraduate or Graduate degree (some doctorate and certificates), and administers all of its programs without discrimination of race, color, gender, religion, national or ethnic origin, disability, age, marital status, or sexual orientation. As a Sinsinawa Dominican sponsored institution, Dominican University prepares students to pursue truth, give compassionate service, and to participate in the creation of a more just and humane world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
The University opened its Chicago campus in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago. This program offers an associate's degree to students and is a living-learning community. The first classes were offered in the fall 2024 term. Students enrolled at the Chicago campus will reside in a living-learning community with access to academic advising, tutoring, mentoring and career services. They will be accepted to Dominican's bachelor's degree programs should they choose to continue their studies. The campus is occupancy-ready and can house up to 100 students. In partnership with The Resurrection Project, the campus will occupy Resurrection's La Casa Residence Hall and neighboring Resource Center in Chicago. It will be a hub for a variety of programs, including a residential, cohort-based associate's degree, credit and non-credit workforce development certificate programs, adult degree completion options and select graduate programs.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Instructional Support includes areas related to teaching, research, mentoring and advising at the River Forest and Chicago Campuses. The University provides rigorous education in an intellectually integrated, mission-centered educational environment with hundreds of avenues for its students at the undergraduate and graduate levels to explore career interests and experience diverse cultures and international environments. At its River Forest campus, the university offers more than 50+ undergraduate degree options, 25+ graduate degrees, and doctoral degrees in Information Studies, Applied Social Justice, and Educational Leadership. The university offers an associate's degree coupled with a living-learning community at its Chicago Campus. Certificates, adult-education and work-force development certificates are also offered. Students have direct access to Chicago's professional network. Students benefit from hands-on research opportunities, demanding academics, personal attention and deep interactions within small class sizes. Career-enhancing opportunities include pre-professional programs. Full-time, part-time, evening and online classes are offered.
$86,025,215 spentof which $49,962,876 as grants$81,562,514 earned by the program72% of program spendingAcademic Support Services are provided under the leadership of the Provost's team of the university, and it supports the instructional areas of the university. Faculty are supported by the Center for Teaching Excellence whose mission is to assist faculty at all stages of their career as it relates to their role as teachers, student mentors, advisers, scholars, and citizens of the community and the university. Faculty committees exist to allow input and transparency into core decisions of the university. The Faculty Senate provides a central voice for all faculty. The Rebecca Crown Library provides library services to students, faculty, staff and the community. The Information Technology and the Registrar's Offices provide resources to students that are directly aligned with the students' academic needs.
$13,430,359 spent$12,733,637 earned by the program11% of program spendingIn direct support to students, Student Services is comprised of the Office of Enrollment Management (Admissions), Financial Aid Office, Dean of Students Office, Student Success and Engagement, and Athletics. The Vice President for Enrollment Management oversees the Admissions, Stars Connect, and Financial Aid offices. The Admission's team is responsible for recruiting new and transfer students for the River Forest and Chicago campuses. By complying with federal and state regulations, the Financial Aid Office is responsible for packaging financial aid for students based on limits set by federal and state governance, and/or the university's policies. Most students receive some form of institutional scholarships or grants. External audits are conducted by various agencies for financial application and for financial aid. The Dean of Students and Student Success and Engagement Offices, which include (Wellness, Advising, Career Services, and Student Activities) work closely with students to prepare for holistic experiences. Training, tutoring, and various areas of support are the many resources that are provided. Career services help to prepare students for employment during and after…
$14,987,362 spent$14,209,868 earned by the program13% of program spendingAuxiliary services include student housing, campus dining, and the Performing Arts Theater at River Forest and Chicago campuses. The university offers four residence halls in River Forest, and one living-learning community in Chicago. Housing includes a variety of options ranging from single, double and triple rooms to suites. Students who live in the residence halls are expected to purchase the campus meal plan; some specific exceptions are allowed. The Performing Arts Theater offers a variety of musical and theater productions, many led or managed by students. The theater productions are integrated with the Undergraduate Theater Program which supports their theater curriculum. Many students participate in the performances, assist with stage crew set up and tear down, and ticket collections.
$4,551,809 spent$7,979,296 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $118,994,745.
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 $140M to $155M (+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 6% · 2018 7% · 2019 8% · 2020 8% · 2021 10% · 2022 11% · 2023 7% · 2024 7% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
12% of DOMINICAN 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.
Chief executive
Barrington Price
CEO Chicago Campus
Board chair
Mary Jo Herseth
Trustee-Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 25 funders to 42 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $2.2M.
17 of 115 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 115 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
DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 30% · 2019 26% · 2020 33% · 2021 34% · 2022 56% · 2023 56% — 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
49% of DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
58% of DOMINICAN 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. $3.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY's funding base is broadening — from 25 funders to 42 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $54.8M on record.
- Department of Education$38.0M
- Department of Health and Human Services$9.2M
- National Science Foundation$3.2M
- Department of Commerce$2.6M
- Department of Justice$600k
- Department of Defense$479k
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 DOMINICAN 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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Sinsinawa Dominican Congregation · exempt
- Constance Barbantini Estate · partnership
- Irrevocable Charitable Trust · corp_trust
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DOMINICAN 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 DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY?
- DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY (Illinois) receives grants from 115 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,066,584 to it, the largest being WESTLAKE HEALTH FOUNDATION ($5,162,000). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 115 organizations giving $21,066,584 in grants to DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY, 65 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY?
- WESTLAKE HEALTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,162,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DOMINICAN 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.
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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 115 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