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Heidelberg University

Heidelberg University (Ohio) receives grants from 86 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,736,245 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($4,532,100). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$56M
Funders on record
86
Grants received
$12M
Net assets
$156M
49/86 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What Heidelberg University does

Mission

Heidelberg University's mission and programs are firmly rooted in liberal arts with innovative coursework in sciences, global education, business and related graduate-level programs. Quality education, services to students, a close personal living environment and strong values-centered philosophy are hallmarks of a heidelberg education.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Faculty instruction for full and part-time students seeking degrees from heidelberg. Student services provided to our full and part-time students. These services include athletics, financial aid, our admissions office and services to our resident students. Auxiliary services to our resident students include room and board as well as our bookstore.

    $50,498,393 spentof which $20,595,735 as grants$43,625,368 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $50,498,393.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($55M) Expenses 100 ($51M) Net assets 100 ($111M)2018 Revenue 98 ($54M) Expenses 103 ($52M) Net assets 103 ($114M)2019 Revenue 105 ($58M) Expenses 110 ($56M) Net assets 103 ($114M)2020 Revenue 97 ($54M) Expenses 106 ($54M) Net assets 103 ($113M)2021 Revenue 118 ($66M) Expenses 108 ($55M) Net assets 121 ($134M)2022 Revenue 134 ($74M) Expenses 112 ($57M) Net assets 125 ($138M)2023 Revenue 117 ($65M) Expenses 118 ($60M) Net assets 134 ($148M)2024 Revenue 101 ($56M) Expenses 114 ($58M) Net assets 140 ($155M)2025 Revenue 102 ($56M) Expenses 115 ($58M) Net assets 141 ($156M)
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Revenue (102)Expenses (115)Net assets (141)Peer revenue range

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 $148M to $174M (+17%).

$138M
$141M
$164M
$148M
$174M
$181M
$193M
$200M
$206M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 4% · 2022 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

11% of Heidelberg University’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,254 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$4.8M
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$2.2M
’18
$2.4M
’19
$220k
’20
$11M
’21
$17M
’22
$5.0M
’23
−$1.6M
’24
−$1.9M
’25
2.5
months of
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.

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Listed423836373636344039
Joined·+5+0+1+2+9+1+10+5
No longer listed·92039346
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 30 funders, grant income rose $1.0M → $1.9M.

21 of 86 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 Heidelberg University’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 86 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

Heidelberg University leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

55% 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 Heidelberg University.

39%
largest funder
61%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 21% · 2019 20% · 2020 28% · 2021 75% · 2022 44% · 2023 56% — 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

44% of Heidelberg University's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

75% of Heidelberg University's grant income comes from Ohio funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.7M 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Heidelberg University's funding base is broadening — from 15 funders to 30 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−3% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.5mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)0% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Government funding Heidelberg University receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $14.3M on record.

Federal$14.3M
grants $14.3Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Education$9.2M
  • Department of Health and Human Services$3.4M
  • Department of Justice$950k
  • Department of Agriculture$728k
  • National Endowment for the Arts$15k

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 12%Fundraising 1%

Governance

29
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OH

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Heidelberg 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 Heidelberg University?
Heidelberg University (Ohio) receives grants from 86 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,736,245 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($4,532,100). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Heidelberg University have?
IRS filings report 86 organizations giving $11,736,245 in grants to Heidelberg University, 49 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Heidelberg University?
COLUMBUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,532,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Heidelberg University find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 86 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