New York · Nonprofit
IONA UNIVERSITY
IONA UNIVERSITY (New York) receives grants from 140 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,127,756 to it, the largest being The New York and Presbyterian Hospital ($20,000,000). 77 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $208M
- Funders on record
- 140
- Grants received
- $44M
- Net assets
- $363M
What Iona University does
Mission
Iona University is a caring academic community, inspired by the legacy of blessed edmund rice and the christian brothers, which embodies opportunity, justice, and the liberating power of education. Iona University's purpose is to foster intellectual inquiry, community engagement and an appreciation for diversity. In the tradition of american catholic higher education, Iona University commits its energies and resources to the development of graduates recognized for their ethics, creativity and problem-solving abilities; their independent and adaptive thinking; their joy in lifelong learning; and their enduring integration of mind, body and spirit.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Tuition - founded by the congregation of christian brothers in 1940, Iona University is chartered by the state of new york and fully accredited by the federal department of education approved regional accreditor, the middle states commission on higher education (msche), to offer credit bearing coursework towards degrees and registered certificates at the undergraduate and graduate levels. In addition to msche, iona's academic programs hold multiple professional and special accreditations from independent accrediting bodies including the accreditation board for engineering and technology (abet); accreditation council for occupational therapy education (acote); american association for marriage and family therapy (aamft); american chemical society (acs); association for advancing quality in educator preparation (aaqep); association to advance collegiate schools of business international (aacsb); college reading and learning association (crla); commission on collegiate nursing education (ccne); council on academic accreditation in (see on schedule o)
$122,290,372 spentof which $79,351,216 as grants$156,248,035 earned by the program64% of program spendingStudent services - other academic and student support activities are provided for enrolled students and in support of faculty scholarship consistent with standards established by the new york state education department, the commission of higher education of the middle states association of schools and colleges and best practices in american higher education. These include fully staffed and operational libraries, a career development center, counseling center, health services center, it support center, faculty training center, tutoring and academic support center, campus ministries office, athletics department, and student development office servicing clubs, student government, student media and student recreation.
$43,882,006 spent$6,327,735 earned by the program23% of program spendingAuxiliary enterprises - Iona University provides ancillary auxiliary services to both its student population and its employee base in an effort to support its educational mission: 1) residential services - as part of the student experience, Iona University offers on-campus residence hall housing and related services. The primary goal of iona's residential life program is to provide a safe, secure and comfortable environment where academic success, as well as the social, emotional, spiritual, physical and cultural development of each resident, is facilitated. 2) bookstore - the university has an on-campus bookstore where students can purchase textbooks, study aids, electronics, software, stationery and related hard goods. 3) food service/cafeteria - the university has an on-campus cafeteria that is committed to providing quality and nutritious food with exceptional service. Resident students and commuters may participate in the full meal plan offered at Iona University.
$23,567,439 spent$25,260,728 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $189,739,817.
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 $480M to $520M (+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 1% · 2018 3% · 2019 2% · 2020 2% · 2021 4% · 2022 4% · 2023 2% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
9% of IONA 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. 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
Michael Hegarty
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 29 funders to 45 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $3.3M.
23 of 140 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 IONA UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 140 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
IONA UNIVERSITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
76% 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 IONA UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 40% · 2019 35% · 2020 90% · 2021 34% · 2022 33% · 2023 52% — 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
34% of IONA UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
68% of IONA UNIVERSITY's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.6M 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
IONA UNIVERSITY's funding base is broadening — from 29 funders to 45 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding IONA UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $31.3M on record.
- Department of Education$23.7M
- National Science Foundation$4.0M
- Department of Health and Human Services$3.1M
- Department of Justice$300k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$150k
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 IONA 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 York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
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 1 related entity
- 748-754 North Avenue LLC · disregarded
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for IONA 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 IONA UNIVERSITY?
- IONA UNIVERSITY (New York) receives grants from 140 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,127,756 to it, the largest being The New York and Presbyterian Hospital ($20,000,000). 77 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does IONA UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 140 organizations giving $44,127,756 in grants to IONA UNIVERSITY, 77 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IONA UNIVERSITY?
- The New York and Presbyterian Hospital is the largest funder on record, with $20,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IONA UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 140 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