Ohio · Nonprofit
John Carroll University
John Carroll University (Ohio) receives grants from 188 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,759,732 to it, the largest being The Boler Family Foundation ($5,000,000). 118 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $188M
- Funders on record
- 188
- Grants received
- $37M
- Net assets
- $422M
What John Carroll University does
Mission
As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, John Carroll University inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and throughout the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
From its modest origin in 1886 as saint ignatius college on cleveland's near west side, john carroll today is widely recognized as a transformative university that excels in undergraduate and post-graduate education, attracting students from 29 states and 19 countries. The university strives to develop each student as a whole person - mind, body, and soul. At the same time, students are challenged to make a difference in the world through leadership and service. As a jesuit catholic university, john carroll offers a rigorous education based on a well-developed liberal arts core curriculum, including a variety of academic programs in the arts and sciences, and education. U.s. News and world report annually ranks john carroll among the top 5 universities in the midwest that grant master's degrees, and the university's john m. And mary jo boler college of business holds dual aacsb accreditation - an international distinction awarded by the association to advance collegiate schools of business placing it in the top five percent of business schools worldwide. A bloomberg businessweek survey of employers ranked the boler school of business number one in the nation in preparing students…
$166,379,238 spentof which $66,351,359 as grants$143,373,447 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $166,379,238.
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 $446M to $529M (+19%).
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 2% · 2019 0% · 2020 1% · 2021 6% · 2022 4% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
17% of John Carroll 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. 3 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
William Bill Donnelly
Chair of Board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 40 funders to 82 funders, grant income rose $2.6M → $6.0M.
36 of 188 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 John Carroll University’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 188 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
John Carroll University has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
42% 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 John Carroll University.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 23% · 2019 33% · 2020 41% · 2021 48% · 2022 26% · 2023 33% — 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
51% of John Carroll University's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
John Carroll University draws 55% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 25 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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
John Carroll University runs a healthier operating margin 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 John Carroll University receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $18.6M on record.
- Department of Education$11.6M
- National Science Foundation$4.2M
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.6M
- Department of Defense$196k
- Department of Agriculture$6k
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 John Carroll 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 6 related entities
- The 1886 Company Ltd LLC · disregarded
- Cura Personalis LLC · disregarded
- Ignatius LLC · disregarded
- Inigo LLC · disregarded
- Loyola LLC · disregarded
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for John Carroll 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 John Carroll University?
- John Carroll University (Ohio) receives grants from 188 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,759,732 to it, the largest being The Boler Family Foundation ($5,000,000). 118 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does John Carroll University have?
- IRS filings report 188 organizations giving $36,759,732 in grants to John Carroll University, 118 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of John Carroll University?
- The Boler Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $5,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like John Carroll 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.
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 188 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