Rhode Island · Nonprofit
JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY
JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY (Rhode Island) receives grants from 129 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,359,594 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($1,503,750). 61 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $342M
- Funders on record
- 129
- Grants received
- $6.4M
- Net assets
- $684M
What Johnson & Wales University does
Mission
The mission of Johnson & Wales University (jwu) is to provide an exceptional education that inspires professional success and lifelong personal and intellectual growth.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In fy 2025, jwu enrollment at its campuses in providence, ri, and charlotte, nc, and online learning program totaled 8,332 students (7,307 undergrads and 1,025 grad) jwu awarded 2,068 degrees including 379 associate's, 1,192 bachelor's, 372 graduate, 59 doctoral, and 66 certificates. Jwu employed 318 ft and 389 pt faculty throughout its colleges of art & sciences, college of business and hospitality, college of dietetics and nutrition, college of food innovation & technology, college of health and wellness, and college of online education. 40% of students were first generation college students of those who reported their parents' education. 98% of undergraduate, day students received institutional aid, with an average aid of $22,820 per student. Institutional scholarships exceeded $120 million.
$338,666,746 spentof which $120,399,305 as grants$304,735,666 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $338,666,746.
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 $914M to $852M (−7%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 1% · 2020 3% · 2021 9% · 2022 12% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 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.
Chief executive
Minnie L Runey
Chancellor, president & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 25 funders to 37 funders, grant income rose $281k → $996k.
20 of 129 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 129 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
JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
36% 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 JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 18% · 2018 19% · 2019 59% · 2020 48% · 2021 44% · 2022 51% · 2023 50% — 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
26% of JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Rhode Island, across 32 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M 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
JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY's funding base is broadening — from 25 funders to 37 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $81.5M on record — $80.3M federal, $1.2M state.
- Department of Education$78.4M
- National Science Foundation$1000k
- Department of Health and Human Services$618k
- Department of Agriculture$280k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$34k
- NJ$1.2M
- DE$10k
- FL$1k
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 JOHNSON & WALES 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 Rhode Island
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
65%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 13 states
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Wildcat Realty Holdings LLC · disregarded
- Charitable Remainder Annuity Trust(1) · corp_trust
- Charitable Remainder Unitrust(1) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JOHNSON & WALES 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 JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY?
- JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY (Rhode Island) receives grants from 129 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,359,594 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($1,503,750). 61 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 129 organizations giving $6,359,594 in grants to JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY, 61 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY?
- The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,503,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. 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 129 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