New York · Nonprofit
Manhattan University
Manhattan University (New York) receives grants from 180 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,331,229 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,844,181). 96 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $210M
- Funders on record
- 180
- Grants received
- $30M
- Net assets
- $318M
What Manhattan University does
Mission
Manhattan University is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. The mission of Manhattan University is to provide a contemporary, person-centered educational experience that prepares graduates for lives of personal development, professional success, civic engagement and service to their fellow human beings. The university pursues this mission through programs that integrate a broad liberal education with concentration in specific disciplines in the arts and sciences or with professional preparation in business, education and engineering.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Manhattan University is an independent catholic institution of higher learning that offers the variety of academic programming found at a large university, but with the personalized learning experience of a small, liberal arts school. The university's three distinct schools, the kakos school of arts and science, the school of engineering, and the o'malley school of business, offer more than 100 majors, minors, graduate programs, and advanced certificates, as well as degrees that can be earned fully online or combined with a traditional classroom experience. With a 15:1 student to faculty ratio, a catalog of courses that uses new york city as a classroom and a curriculum built on a strong liberal arts foundation, our students secure internships and jobs at fortune 500 companies and conduct research that makes a real impact in the world. The university educates approximately 2,838 undergraduate and 542 graduate students each year.
$171,435,753 spentof which $77,956,815 as grants$155,943,119 earned by the program93% of program spendingAuxiliary services include the cost of room and board for approximately 954 full time undergraduate students and 32 graduate students living in traditional residence hall, suite and apartment style buildings on our 22 acre campus. The university offers a four year guarantee of resident housing. Additionally, graduate students are offered housing in an apartment style building. Auxiliary services also includes campus services offered in support of educational activities to students, faculty and staff such as the bookstore and cafeteria.
$12,513,277 spentof which $2,647,715 as grants$19,955,799 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $183,949,030.
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 2017 to 2018, from $365M to $404M (+11%).
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 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 3% · 2021 8% · 2022 3% · 2023 2% · 2024 3% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
10% of Manhattan 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. 3 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
Stephen Squeri
Trustee, chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 39 funders to 84 funders, grant income rose $1.3M → $4.8M.
31 of 180 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 Manhattan University’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 180 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
Manhattan University has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% 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
66% 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 Manhattan University.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 26% · 2019 46% · 2020 17% · 2021 29% · 2022 15% · 2023 17% — 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
44% of Manhattan University'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
Manhattan University draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 28 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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
Manhattan University's funding base is broadening — from 39 funders to 84 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding Manhattan University receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $22.2M on record.
- Department of Education$18.0M
- National Science Foundation$2.2M
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.6M
- Department of Defense$382k
- Environmental Protection Agency$125k
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 Manhattan 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Manhattan 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 Manhattan University?
- Manhattan University (New York) receives grants from 180 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,331,229 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,844,181). 96 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Manhattan University have?
- IRS filings report 180 organizations giving $30,331,229 in grants to Manhattan University, 96 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Manhattan University?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $5,844,181 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Manhattan University find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 180 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