Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
EASTERN UNIVERSITY
EASTERN UNIVERSITY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 92 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,977,183 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($6,522,305). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $147M
- Funders on record
- 92
- Grants received
- $17M
- Net assets
- $111M
What Eastern University does
Mission
Eastern University is a diverse, christ-centered community preparing graduates to impact the world through faith, reason, and justice.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Instruction - expenditures for all activities through which students earn credit toward postsecondary degrees or certificates, and the support services for the delivery of instruction. Includes expenditures for curriculum development, departmental research, education materials (e.g., libraries), laboratories and other services that directly assist the institution's academic functions, faculty development, and academic administration.
$71,176,044 spentof which $42,652,790 as grants$119,358,647 earned by the program67% of program spendingStudent services - funds expended for offices of admissions and registrar and those activities that contribute to the emotional and physical wellbeing of students, as well as their intellectual, cultural, and social development outside of the context of the formal instructional environment including student activities, counseling and career guidance, intercollegiate athletics, and student organizations.
$18,316,239 spent$468,084 earned by the program17% of program spendingAuxiliary and other operations - funds expended for auxiliary enterprises that generally operate as self-supporting programs by charging fees for the provision of goods and services; also includes expenditures for institutional support and plant operations attributable and/or allocable to the programmatic departments of the institution.
$9,754,755 spentof which $614,994 as grants$12,809,773 earned by the program9% of program spendingAcademic support - funds expended to provide support services for the core, instructional mission of the university including operation of libraries and laboratories, instructional technologies, assessment, and academic administration.
$6,734,843 spent$4,870 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $105,981,881.
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 $122M to $145M (+19%).
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 2% · 2019 1% · 2020 5% · 2021 9% · 2022 6% · 2023 2% · 2024 1% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
8% of EASTERN 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. 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
Steven Clemens Esq
Chairman of the board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $232k → $1.8M.
18 of 92 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 EASTERN UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 92 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
EASTERN UNIVERSITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 27% · 2019 21% · 2020 48% · 2021 50% · 2022 24% · 2023 69% — growing more concentrated.
“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
27% of EASTERN UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
EASTERN UNIVERSITY draws 60% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 18 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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
EASTERN UNIVERSITY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 679 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 679 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding EASTERN UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $26.5M on record — $26.1M federal, $355k state.
- Department of Education$23.7M
- Department of Commerce$2.0M
- Department of Justice$400k
- Department of Transportation$5k
- NJ$340k
- DE$13k
- VT$1k
- FL$538
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 EASTERN 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
71%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Charitable Remainder Unitrust (2) · corp_trust
- Charitable Remainder Unitrust (1) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EASTERN 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 EASTERN UNIVERSITY?
- EASTERN UNIVERSITY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 92 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,977,183 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($6,522,305). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EASTERN UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 92 organizations giving $16,977,183 in grants to EASTERN UNIVERSITY, 45 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EASTERN UNIVERSITY?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,522,305 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EASTERN UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 92 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing