Michigan · Nonprofit
LAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
LAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY (Michigan) receives grants from 87 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,260,745 to it, the largest being DONLEY FOUNDATION-UD DTD 12-8-86 ($2,043,100). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $92M
- Funders on record
- 87
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $126M
What Lawrence Technological University does
Mission
To develop leaders through innovative and agile programs embracing theory and practice.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Higher Education : Associates, Baccalaureate, Graduate Program Services were provided to 4,126 students and 817 received degrees. This activity contributes importantly to the University's purpose by providing funding for educational services at less than the aggregate costs of these services. This is the exempt purpose of the University.
$63,466,770 spent$64,155,756 earned by the program86% of program spendingHigher Education : Campus apartments, residences, and residential services were provided for 977 students primarily in housing. These activities are important components for the University's primary exempt purpose of providing educational services. These activities include housing, cafeteria services, bookstore services, and other related services deemed necessary for the students.
$646,065 spent$6,570,890 earned by the program1% of program spendingHigher Education : Student Activities - Academic associations, student government, recreational and athletic programs. Participation in various associations were used by 3,108 students. These activities are important components for the University's primary exempt purposes of providing educational services. These activities include library, copier, transcripts, fines and other various services.
$10,072,795 spent$203,488 earned by the program14% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $74,185,630.
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 2021 to 2022, from $221M to $206M (−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 2% · 2019 2% · 2020 4% · 2021 7% · 2022 5% · 2023 5% · 2024 7% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
20% of LAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 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
Daniel Radomski
Executive director of accelerator
Board chair
Victor A Saroki
Board Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 34 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $2.1M.
15 of 87 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 LAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 87 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
LAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% 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
43% 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 LAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 33% · 2019 49% · 2020 34% · 2021 27% · 2022 29% · 2023 24% — 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
24% of LAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL 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
53% of LAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
LAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY's funding base is broadening — from 15 funders to 34 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding LAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $18.3M on record.
- Department of Education$8.0M
- National Science Foundation$6.2M
- Department of Commerce$2.1M
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.9M
- Small Business Administration$200k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$14k
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 LAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL 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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY?
- LAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY (Michigan) receives grants from 87 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,260,745 to it, the largest being DONLEY FOUNDATION-UD DTD 12-8-86 ($2,043,100). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 87 organizations giving $14,260,745 in grants to LAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, 51 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY?
- DONLEY FOUNDATION-UD DTD 12-8-86 is the largest funder on record, with $2,043,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 87 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