Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
LA SALLE UNIVERSITY
LA SALLE UNIVERSITY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 149 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,056,656 to it, the largest being National Collegiate Athletic Association ($2,949,091). 80 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $113M
- Funders on record
- 149
- Grants received
- $19M
- Net assets
- $57M
What La Salle University does
Mission
See schedule o for complete mission statement.la salle is a lasallian catholic university committed to the principle that all knowledge is practical and empowering, filled with the capacity to transform lives. Anchored in the living tradition of the brothers of the christian schools and in association with a diverse and inclusive learning community, our mission is to educate the whole person by fostering a rigorous free search for truth. La salle, in affirming the value of both liberal arts and professional studies, prepares students for the lifelong pursuit and exploration of wisdom, knowledge, and faith that lead to engaged and fulfilling lives marked by a commitment to the common good.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Instruction - the university provided education to 3,153 and 3,052 enrolled students in undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs in the fall 2024 and spring 2025 semesters, respectively.
$82,466,040 spentof which $37,893,900 as grants$81,959,276 earned by the program73% of program spendingStudent and community services - the university provided counseling, intercollegiate activities, health-advising, student governing, and other student life services for all students. The university provides services to the greater philadelphia community through our non-profit development center.
$22,434,523 spent$2,226,415 earned by the program20% of program spendingAuxiliary enterprises - the university provided housing, bookstore, and dining services. The university provided rooms to 871 and 825 students enrolled students during the fall 2024 and spring 2025 semesters, respectively. The university also provided meals to 960 and 902 enrolled students during the fall 2024 and spring 2025 semesters, respectively.
$7,886,575 spent$8,514,853 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $112,787,138.
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 2022 to 2023, from $273M to $247M (−9%).
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 2% · 2019 1% · 2020 3% · 2021 7% · 2022 10% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
10% of LA SALLE 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. 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
Ellen Reilly
Chair of the board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 27 funders to 60 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $3.3M.
28 of 149 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 LA SALLE UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 149 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
LA SALLE UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% 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
73% 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 LA SALLE UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 36% · 2019 30% · 2020 50% · 2021 23% · 2022 19% · 2023 16% — 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
36% of LA SALLE UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
LA SALLE UNIVERSITY draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 24 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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
LA SALLE UNIVERSITY's funding base is broadening — from 27 funders to 60 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding LA SALLE UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $27.0M on record — $27.0M federal, $48k state.
- Department of Education$25.2M
- Department of Health and Human Services$767k
- National Science Foundation$469k
- Department of Justice$400k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$95k
- NJ$42k
- DE$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 LA SALLE 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
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 1 related entity
- Pooled Income Fund (1) · corp_trust
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LA SALLE 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 LA SALLE UNIVERSITY?
- LA SALLE UNIVERSITY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 149 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,056,656 to it, the largest being National Collegiate Athletic Association ($2,949,091). 80 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LA SALLE UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 149 organizations giving $19,056,656 in grants to LA SALLE UNIVERSITY, 80 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LA SALLE UNIVERSITY?
- National Collegiate Athletic Association is the largest funder on record, with $2,949,091 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LA SALLE UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 149 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