Illinois · Nonprofit
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO (Illinois) receives grants from 459 organizations whose IRS filings report $91,826,160 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($9,067,978). 245 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1B
- Funders on record
- 459
- Grants received
- $92M
- Net assets
- $2.3B
What Loyola University of Chicago does
Mission
We are chicago's jesuit, catholic university - a diverse community seeking god in all things and working to expand knowledge in the service of humanity through learning, justice, and faith.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Higher education: loyola university chicago educated approximately 12,500 undergraduate & 4,800 graduate & professional students for the fall 2024 term. Loyola strives to deliver the premier undergraduate educational experience in chicago, characterized by a transformative experience in the jesuit tradition & a commitment to the underserved. The quinlan school of business continues to be ranked as the number 1 undergradate business program in chcago by u.s. News & world report rankings. Similarly, the marcella niehoff school of nursing bachelor of science program is ranked in the top 2 percent of undergraduate nursing programs nationwide. At the graduate and professional levels, loyola delivers a high-quality education defined by excellence, innovation, justice, and leadership. The university comprises 13 schools and colleges, along with numerous institutes and centers.
$808,486,517 spentof which $329,756,905 as grants$811,440,294 earned by the program88% of program spendingHigher education auxiliary services: loyola university chicago provides various services and amenities that strengthen and enhance the loyola student, faculty, and staff experience. These services include housing, food service, and recreational facilities.
$62,526,256 spentof which $2,001,057 as grants$90,200,633 earned by the program7% of program spendingResearch: loyola university chicago engages in externally funded research projects aimed at solving contemporary, societal challenges, with the goal of creating a better and more just tomorrow. The research is conducted in each of loyola's three chicago-area campuses (health science campus, water tower campus, and lakeshore campus) and serves to advance knowledge while also providing training opportunities to students in the research process. Loyola's total research expenditures have grown steadily resulting in loyola attaining the highest research classification, research 1 (r1) by the american council on education and the carnegie foundation during fiscal year 2025.
$46,162,125 spentof which $4,674,652 as grants5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $917,174,898.
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 $2.3B to $2.5B (+12%).
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 4% · 2018 4% · 2019 4% · 2020 4% · 2021 9% · 2022 6% · 2023 4% · 2024 5% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
9% of LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO’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. 0 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
John G Schreiber
Board chair, trustee
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 77 funders to 161 funders, grant income rose $2.9M → $13M.
37 of 459 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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: $254M from 34 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Loyola University Medical Center). These are real filings, and they are not money LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO raised.
From the IRS filings of LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 459 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
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 10% of grant income, and it takes 13 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 13 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 LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 9% · 2018 17% · 2019 12% · 2020 26% · 2021 14% · 2022 18% · 2023 10% — broadly stable.
“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
37% of LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 40 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 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
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO's funding base is broadening — from 77 funders to 161 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $334.0M on record — $333.9M federal, $16k state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$228.3M
- Department of Education$61.4M
- National Science Foundation$27.9M
- Department of Defense$5.6M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$2.3M
- Department of Justice$2.1M
- OR$16k
- FL$144
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 LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 12 states
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Mundelein College · exempt
- Krasa Family Trust · exempt
- Thora Capital Offshore Fund II LP · partnership
- Thora Onshore Partners II LP · partnership
- Thora Offshore Partners II Ltd · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO?
- LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO (Illinois) receives grants from 459 organizations whose IRS filings report $91,826,160 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($9,067,978). 245 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO have?
- IRS filings report 459 organizations giving $91,826,160 in grants to LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, 245 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $9,067,978 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 459 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