New Jersey · Nonprofit
Fairleigh Dickinson University
Fairleigh Dickinson University (New Jersey) receives grants from 151 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,831,817 to it, the largest being NORTHEAST CONFERENCE ($2,912,514). 77 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $300M
- Funders on record
- 151
- Grants received
- $18M
- Net assets
- $235M
What Fairleigh Dickinson University does
Mission
Fairleigh Dickinson University is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. The university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical understandings necessary to participate, lead, and prosper in the global marketplace of ideas, commerce and culture.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Higher education instruction - Fairleigh Dickinson University is a nonsectarian, coeducational institution offering programs on the undergraduate, graduate and professional levels. The university educates approximately 11,900 students per year. Founded as a small junior college in 1942, the university now maintains two major campuses in northern new jersey suburbs - the metropolitan campus, spanning both teaneck and hackensack in bergen county, and the florham campus, located in florham park and madison in morris county - and campuses in wroxton, england and vancouver, british columbia, canada. The university provides instruction at additional locations throughout new jersey, and learning opportunities at select locations throughout the united states and study-abroad in a variety of locations overseas. (continued on schedule o)
$262,183,759 spentof which $76,421,265 as grants$246,181,017 earned by the program93% of program spendingHigher education auxiliary - to provide food service and resident halls for university students. Approximately 1,883 students currently utilize university residence halls.
$20,160,742 spentof which $3,856,302 as grants$32,666,551 earned by the program7% of program spendingHigher education research - investigation and experimental activities for the purpose of discovery and revision of accepted conclusions undertaken for the benefit of the community at large. The silberman college of business sponsors a series of business research studies that involve faculty and students. The college publishes several working papers series and the journal of pharmaceutical chemical business. The school of psychology and counseling houses the clinical psychology and psychology doctoral programs where students and faculty do research in such areas as behavioral medicine, cognitive, psychological and psych-educational testing and women's issues. The school of psychology and counseling further emphasizes experimental, industrial/organization psychology and clinical counseling. In addition, in the maxwell becton college of arts and sciences, research efforts are particularly prominent in english, social sciences and communication disciplines.
$577,693 spent$1,250,275 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $282,922,194.
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 2021 to 2022, from $464M to $425M (−8%).
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 2% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 3% · 2021 5% · 2022 8% · 2023 2% · 2024 5% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
4% of Fairleigh Dickinson University’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (14% 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
Robert J Zatta
Trustee - Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 24 funders to 58 funders, grant income rose $874k → $3.0M.
19 of 151 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 Fairleigh Dickinson University’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 151 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
Fairleigh Dickinson University has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% 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
64% 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 Fairleigh Dickinson University.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 37% · 2019 25% · 2020 31% · 2021 27% · 2022 19% · 2023 17% — 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
45% of Fairleigh Dickinson University's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
52% of Fairleigh Dickinson University's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
Fairleigh Dickinson University is better cushioned than half of the 684 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding Fairleigh Dickinson University receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $83.5M on record — $48.7M federal, $34.8M state.
- Department of Education$36.5M
- Department of Health and Human Services$9.1M
- National Science Foundation$2.2M
- Department of Justice$500k
- Department of Defense$345k
- National Endowment for the Arts$20k
- NJ$34.8M
- VT$50
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 Fairleigh Dickinson 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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Fdu of British Columbia Foundation · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Fairleigh Dickinson 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 Fairleigh Dickinson University?
- Fairleigh Dickinson University (New Jersey) receives grants from 151 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,831,817 to it, the largest being NORTHEAST CONFERENCE ($2,912,514). 77 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Fairleigh Dickinson University have?
- IRS filings report 151 organizations giving $17,831,817 in grants to Fairleigh Dickinson University, 77 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Fairleigh Dickinson University?
- NORTHEAST CONFERENCE is the largest funder on record, with $2,912,514 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Fairleigh Dickinson 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.
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 151 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