Wisconsin · Nonprofit
MARIAN UNIVERSITY INC
MARIAN UNIVERSITY INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,913,742 to it, the largest being MICHELS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($2,750,000). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $39M
- Funders on record
- 59
- Grants received
- $6.9M
- Net assets
- $52M
What Marian University Inc does
Mission
Marian university is a catholic applied liberal arts community that welcomes diverse spiritual traditions sponsored by the congregation of sisters of st agnes. Marian university engages students in the education of the whole person. We embrace justice and compassion and transform lives for professional service and leadership in the global community. The five core values of marian university inspire everything we do at marian university - in the classroom, in activities, in service to others and in our relationships with each other. Community - respecting our diversity as individuals, we encourage, challenge and nurture one another, joining together to accomplish our shared mission and vision. Learning - we engage in a collaborative lifelong process of seeking truth and appropriating knowledge and values to transform the individual, our communities and the world service through active service and ministry. We support one another and seek to meet the needs of the larger community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Marian university is a catholic liberal arts institution providing a combination of excellent professional training with a quality liberal arts education. Annually it serves approximately 1,200 students.
$31,154,279 spentof which $15,007,369 as grants$34,387,130 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $31,154,279.
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 $60M to $66M (+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 4% · 2021 7% · 2022 9% · 2023 10% · 2024 2% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
10% of MARIAN UNIVERSITY INC’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. 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
David Klumpyan
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 15 funders, grant income fell $733k → $156k.
5 of 59 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 MARIAN UNIVERSITY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 59 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
MARIAN UNIVERSITY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 59%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 59% · 2019 78% · 2020 46% · 2021 28% · 2022 39% · 2023 37% — 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 MARIAN UNIVERSITY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
95% of MARIAN UNIVERSITY INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $690k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
MARIAN UNIVERSITY INC's revenue fell 23% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding MARIAN UNIVERSITY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $13.4M on record.
- Department of Education$13.4M
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 MARIAN UNIVERSITY INC
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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MARIAN UNIVERSITY INC: 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 MARIAN UNIVERSITY INC?
- MARIAN UNIVERSITY INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,913,742 to it, the largest being MICHELS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($2,750,000). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MARIAN UNIVERSITY INC have?
- IRS filings report 59 organizations giving $6,913,742 in grants to MARIAN UNIVERSITY INC, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARIAN UNIVERSITY INC?
- MICHELS FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,750,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARIAN UNIVERSITY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 59 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