New Jersey · Nonprofit
DREW UNIVERSITY
DREW UNIVERSITY (New Jersey) receives grants from 124 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,488,882 to it, the largest being ROSE LENOX S TUW ($4,002,755). 67 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $121M
- Funders on record
- 124
- Grants received
- $18M
- Net assets
- $122M
What Drew University does
Mission
Drew University, a phi beta kappa liberal arts university, includes the college of liberal arts, the drew theological school, and the caspersen school of graduate studies. Continued on schedule o.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Drew University college of liberal arts affirms a commitment to its founding vision to offer its students a liberal arts education of the highest quality through a rigorous course of study. The college challenges students to explore the arts, natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, and interdisciplinary fields in depth and to develop their capacities for critical thought, problem solving, effective communication, creativity, self discipline, and empathy. As the college prepares students for academic and professional achievement, it provides them with essential skills for living and continuing to learn and to grow in an increasingly diverse and complex world.
$80,573,616 spentof which $37,982,631 as grants$82,730,486 earned by the program72% of program spendingDrew theological school empowers leadership for a global christianity of justice, ecumenism, and the integrity of creation. Its pastoral, spiritual, and conceptual disciplines grow within an intimate liturgical and communal context, one that sustains multiple relations of difference. Through its particular historical commitments to african, asian, african-american, hispanic, and women's ministries, the theological school remains faithfully rooted in its methodist heritage. Drew nurtures christian practices through vital partnership with local churches and international networks of education. Trans-disciplinary interpretation of text, tradition, and experience energizes its scholarly vigor. Drew engenders theologies responsible to the complex realities of an interconnected world. Into that world, drew sends pastors, preachers and prophets, deacons, activists, and teachers.
$12,070,754 spentof which $4,438,363 as grants$5,323,712 earned by the program11% of program spendingThe caspersen school of graduate studies was founded on the principle of the importance of interdisciplinary study in the humanities. The goal of the school's founders was to foster broadly educated people who have expertise in a field of thought but who are also familiar with and articulate in a range of humanistic studies. This mission continues to distinguish the caspersen school among institutions with doctoral programs in the humanities. Our intent is to train persons who are properly prepared not only in specific recognized fields but also in interdisciplinary dialogue. We celebrate the joy of learning as we prepare able, well informed graduates who pursue careers in higher education, in the religious and medical communities, and in the broader intellectual world. As such, we are well positioned to meet the increasing call for interdisciplinary approaches both in the academy and in the wider world. Integral to our mission is encouraging our faculty and students alike to pursue creative research in the humanities and to make the results of their work available through teaching, participation in scholarly meetings, various forms of publication and intellectual discourse; to…
$3,925,505 spentof which $1,400,529 as grants$4,205,303 earned by the program4% of program spendingOther program expenses reflect educational program expenses not directly related to one of the schools described above. It includes an allocated method of program, auxiliary, and student service expenses. Other program activities also include expenses and revenues from the university's continuing education and summer programs.
$15,139,014 spentof which $1,129,366 as grants$14,880,630 earned by the program14% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $111,708,889.
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 $294M to $268M (−9%).
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 10% · 2023 2% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
9% of DREW 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. 8 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
William W Landis Iii
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 24 funders to 47 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $2.1M.
23 of 124 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 DREW UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 124 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
DREW UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
32% 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 DREW UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 43% · 2019 40% · 2020 26% · 2021 29% · 2022 23% · 2023 22% — 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
42% of DREW UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
DREW UNIVERSITY draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 22 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
DREW UNIVERSITY's funding base is broadening — from 24 funders to 47 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding DREW UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $21.0M on record — $9.6M federal, $11.4M state.
- Department of Education$9.0M
- Corporation for National and Community Service$347k
- National Science Foundation$205k
- GRANT IN AID$5.6M
- FEDERAL$2.4M
- BOND FUND$2.1M
- TRUST FUND$829k
- DEDICATED$343k
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$175k
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 DREW 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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DREW 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 DREW UNIVERSITY?
- DREW UNIVERSITY (New Jersey) receives grants from 124 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,488,882 to it, the largest being ROSE LENOX S TUW ($4,002,755). 67 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DREW UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 124 organizations giving $18,488,882 in grants to DREW UNIVERSITY, 67 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DREW UNIVERSITY?
- ROSE LENOX S TUW is the largest funder on record, with $4,002,755 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DREW UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 124 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