Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY
GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 89 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,020,388 to it, the largest being THEODORE R AND VIVIAN M JOHNSON SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ($4,610,000). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $237M
- Funders on record
- 89
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $444M
What Gallaudet University does
Mission
Organization's mission Gallaudet University, federally chartered in 1864, is a bilingual, diverse, multicultural institution of higher education that ensures the intellectual and professional advancement of deaf and hard of hearing individuals through american sign language and english. Gallaudet maintains a proud tradition of research and scholarly activity and prepares its graduates for career opportunities in a highly competitive, technological, and rapidly changing world. Gallaudet is the only accredited university in the world established exclusively for deaf or hard of hearing students. In addition to its undergraduate and graduate academic programs, the university offers elementary and secondary education programs, continuing education programs, and a wide range of public service programs. Gallaudet is a private university that receives a substantial proportion of its annual revenue by direct appropriation from the federal government under the authority of the education of the deaf act.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Instruction and academic support - gallaudet is divided into two major component programs for budgeting and operating purposes: the university and the laurent clerc center. The clerc center consists of the model secondary school for the deaf and kendall demonstration elementary school. In the fall semester of academic year 2024-2025,the university enrolled 875 undergraduate students, 460 graduate students, and 19 english language institute students. The clerc center had 91 students enrolled at kendall demonstration elementary school and 139 students enrolled at the model secondary school for the deaf.
$69,589,675 spentof which $222,797 as grants$38,770,446 earned by the program41% of program spendingStudent services: Gallaudet University provides a wide range of student services including counseling, placement, financial aid, health services, tutoring, career center and other student activities at both the university and clerc center.
$46,143,495 spentof which $10,241,297 as grants$1,428,560 earned by the program27% of program spendingAuxiliary enterprises: auxiliary enterprises include dormitory, food service, bookstore operations, the university press, conference activities, community interpreting, hearing and speech operations, and lease-related income. Only those activities which are revenueproducing are included under this designation. For clerc center programs, costs incurred for dormitory and food service under the model secondary school for the deaf and food service under kendall demonstration elementary school, neither of which produce revenue, arereported as part of student services program expense.
$27,754,953 spentof which $271 as grants$8,610,697 earned by the program16% of program spendingGallaudet University's research, development and outreach agenda is aimed at advancing knowledge and practice for deaf and hard of hearing people and all humanity. Research areas of major importance include visual language and learning, hearing and speech science, technology access, genetics, american sign language/english bilingualism, and deaflife. A critically important focus area of Gallaudet University is integrating research and practice to benefit deaf and hard of hearing pre kindergarten - 12 grade students, with special attention to diversity and equity to this traditionally under-represented group.Gallaudet University's public service activities provide educational opportunities to adults who are deaf. Services include professional trainings, a variety of on-campus summer programs, and extension programs at other schools.
$25,030,942 spentof which $791,693 as grants$299,875 earned by the program15% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $168,519,065.
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 $475M to $530M (+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: 2019 66% · 2020 70% · 2021 78% · 2022 73% · 2023 71% · 2024 70% · 2025 69%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 4 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
Jose Cervantes
Trustee/chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 36 funders, grant income rose $932k → $2.5M.
18 of 89 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 89 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
GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 48% · 2019 42% · 2020 36% · 2021 42% · 2022 42% · 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
50% of GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 26 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M 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
GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY's funding base is broadening — from 15 funders to 36 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 679 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $116.2M on record — $109.6M federal, $6.6M state.
- Department of Education$61.2M
- Department of Health and Human Services$26.5M
- National Science Foundation$17.6M
- Agency for International Development$2.8M
- Department of the Interior$816k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$590k
- NJ$5.9M
- CT$375k
- OR$302k
- MA$925
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 GALLAUDET 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 15 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Gallaudet University Foundation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY?
- GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 89 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,020,388 to it, the largest being THEODORE R AND VIVIAN M JOHNSON SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ($4,610,000). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 89 organizations giving $14,020,388 in grants to GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY, 50 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY?
- THEODORE R AND VIVIAN M JOHNSON SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,610,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 89 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