Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 103 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,062,313 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($1,710,000). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $92M
- Funders on record
- 103
- Grants received
- $8.1M
- Net assets
- $304M
What Lincoln University does
Mission
Lincoln University is a public, historically black university (hbcu) that provides a liberal arts based, undergraduate education on its main residential campus in chester county, pennsylvania; and professional programs on its urban campus in philadelphia.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Education, general/other: academic support, student services and scholarships. These programs provide general support to students for housing, financial aid, counseling, health insurance and student government, instruction and library, auxiliary enterprises, cost of student housing and meals, research and sponsored programs primarily consisting of grants funded by federal, state, and local governments to support the university's instructional mission.
$77,765,232 spentof which $16,722,247 as grants$57,642,042 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $77,765,232.
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 2023 to 2024, from $305M to $333M (+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 26% · 2018 25% · 2019 23% · 2020 23% · 2021 25% · 2022 20% · 2023 25% · 2024 21% · 2025 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
36% of LINCOLN UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Gerald Bruce
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $357k → $834k.
15 of 103 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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: $29M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Lincoln University Foundation of Pa). These are real filings, and they are not money LINCOLN UNIVERSITY raised.
From the IRS filings of LINCOLN UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 103 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
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
53% 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 LINCOLN UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 53% · 2019 33% · 2020 18% · 2021 46% · 2022 16% · 2023 23% — 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
31% of LINCOLN UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY draws 76% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 22 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $606k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY's funding base is broadening — from 12 funders to 32 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding LINCOLN UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $92.7M on record.
- Department of Education$82.9M
- National Science Foundation$4.1M
- Department of Commerce$3.0M
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.1M
- Department of Justice$800k
- Department of the Interior$500k
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 LINCOLN 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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Lincoln University Foundation of Pa · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LINCOLN 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 LINCOLN UNIVERSITY?
- LINCOLN UNIVERSITY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 103 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,062,313 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($1,710,000). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LINCOLN UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 103 organizations giving $8,062,313 in grants to LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, 49 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LINCOLN UNIVERSITY?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,710,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LINCOLN 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 103 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