Florida · Nonprofit
Jacksonville University
Jacksonville University (Florida) receives grants from 156 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,626,510 to it, the largest being Carl S Swisher Foundation Inc ($6,339,144). 92 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $228M
- Funders on record
- 156
- Grants received
- $29M
- Net assets
- $100M
What Jacksonville University does
Mission
Our mission is to empower students for life-long growth as global citizens through a transformative, innovative educational experience, built on excellence in community-centered service. We accomplish this mission in a small, comprehensive, independent University community located within a vibrant metropolitan setting. (continued on Schedule O)
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Jacksonville University ("ju") is a small, comprehensive, independent university combining the best attributes of the liberal arts and sciences tradition and professional studies. The ju learning community provides personalized service and close student-faculty interaction with an emphasis on engaged learning. The college of arts & sciences, the davis college of business, the college of fine arts, the college of health sciences, and the school of orthodontics offer more than 70 undergraduate majors plus graduate programs in business, choreography, visual arts, education, math, marine science, nursing and orthodontics. Jacksonville University prepares its students to succeed in meaningful careers and advanced study at the graduate level and also to function as well-educated, well-rounded, service-minded citizens in our modern society. (continued on schedule o)
$188,276,092 spentof which $91,865,745 as grants$190,049,488 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $188,276,092.
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 2017 to 2018, from $242M to $330M (+37%).
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 4% · 2018 2% · 2019 2% · 2020 5% · 2021 3% · 2022 5% · 2023 8% · 2024 5% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
15% of Jacksonville University’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Matthew Kane
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 28 funders to 61 funders, grant income rose $1.3M → $3.0M.
18 of 156 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $3.3M from 7 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest National Collegiate Athletic Association). These are real filings, and they are not money Jacksonville University raised.
From the IRS filings of Jacksonville University’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 156 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
Jacksonville University has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
39% 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 Jacksonville University.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 75% · 2019 17% · 2020 15% · 2021 31% · 2022 15% · 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
46% of Jacksonville University's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
82% of Jacksonville University's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
Jacksonville University has grown faster 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 Jacksonville University receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50.4M on record — $50.0M federal, $389k state.
- Department of Defense$32.0M
- Department of Education$15.7M
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.2M
- National Science Foundation$1.2M
- Department of the Interior$98k
- FL$341k
- NJ$48k
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 Jacksonville 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
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 5 related entities
- Jacksonville University Clinic LLC · disregarded
- Jacksonville University Flight Team LLC · disregarded
- Vocalize LLC · disregarded
- Thirtyfouroaks Holding LLC · disregarded
- Charitable Remainder Trusts (3) · corp_trust
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Jacksonville 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 Jacksonville University?
- Jacksonville University (Florida) receives grants from 156 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,626,510 to it, the largest being Carl S Swisher Foundation Inc ($6,339,144). 92 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Jacksonville University have?
- IRS filings report 156 organizations giving $28,626,510 in grants to Jacksonville University, 92 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Jacksonville University?
- Carl S Swisher Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $6,339,144 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Jacksonville University find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 156 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