Wisconsin · Nonprofit
Marquette University
Marquette University (Wisconsin) receives grants from 510 organizations whose IRS filings report $173,227,149 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($20,503,218). 315 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $840M
- Funders on record
- 510
- Grants received
- $173M
- Net assets
- $1.7B
What Marquette University does
Mission
As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Instruction Consistently ranked among the top 100 colleges and universities nationwide, Marquette annually enrolls more than 11,700 students in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and confers approximately 2,800 degrees annually. Marquette offers 80 undergraduate majors and 93 minors to students in the College of Arts and Sciences, Business Administration, Communication, Education, Engineering, Health Sciences and Nursing. Marquette has 79 doctoral and masters degree programs, and 19 graduate certificate programs, and a School of Dentistry and Law School. TheGraduate School of Management has nationally ranked MBA programs as well as specialty masters programs in several business areas. Marquette has Wisconsins only School of Dentistry and one of only two law schools in the state.
$416,067,980 spentof which $243,811,420 as grants$523,882,351 earned by the program61% of program spendingStudent Services We know that learning occurs outside, as well as inside, the classroom. Our core values of excellence, faith, leadership and service are fostered through student participation in our residence hall communities and campus organizations, which include academic and professional groups, club and recreational sports, spiritual activities and community service organizations. Marquettes urban location, just blocks from downtown Milwaukee, gives students ample opportunities for internships, co-op experiences and part-time employment. On campus, professionals in the Office of Student Affairs, Student Health Service, Counseling Center and Campus Ministry, as well as faculty and other staff, help students as they navigate the challenges of young adult life. Marquette also has an Educational Opportunity Program, which provides academic opportunity and support to first-generation college students, students from under-represented groups or ethnicities and students from low-income families.
$91,613,101 spent$50,673,883 earned by the program13% of program spendingAcademic Support and Library All Marquette undergraduates receive a strong liberal arts foundation through the universitys Core of Common Studies, which includes courses in nine core knowledge areas. Curriculum development is an ongoing process, with faculty support available through the Center for Teaching and Learning and various departmental resources. Programs for faculty development include curriculum enhancement and diversity grants, teaching enhancement awards, fellowship awards for research, young scholar awards and summer faculty fellowships. The Preparing Future Faculty Program encourages the development of graduate students for the multiple roles they will face as faculty members.
$56,640,009 spent$138,869,737 earned by the program8% of program spendingProgram Services Expenses 121,089,601, Grants and Allocations 0, Revenue 116,241,580 Auxiliary Enterprises Expenses 51,817,862, Grants and Allocations 0, Revenue 67,875,845 Research-Expenses 63,681,392, Grants and Allocations 0, Revenue 48,365,735 Public Service Expenses 5,590,347, Grants and Allocations 0, Revenue 0
$121,089,601 spent$116,241,580 earned by the program18% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $685,410,691.
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 $1.7B to $2.0B (+17%).
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 2% · 2018 2% · 2020 2% · 2021 2% · 2022 2% · 2023 2% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of Marquette 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. 0 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 140 funders to 219 funders, grant income rose $11M → $28M.
54 of 510 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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: $42M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Big East Conference Inc); $19M from 40 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Marquette University raised.
From the IRS filings of Marquette University’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 510 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
Marquette University has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 10 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 10 funders to its left
49% 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 Marquette University.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 15% · 2019 17% · 2020 22% · 2021 15% · 2022 11% · 2023 14% — 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
49% of Marquette University's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
57% of Marquette University's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $60M arriving through sponsors registered in 24 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
Marquette University runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 684 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding Marquette University receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $272.0M on record — $272.0M federal, $150 state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$102.3M
- Department of Education$67.4M
- National Science Foundation$41.0M
- Department of Defense$25.5M
- Department of Energy$18.4M
- Department of Homeland Security$11.4M
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$150
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 Marquette 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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Marquette 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 Marquette University?
- Marquette University (Wisconsin) receives grants from 510 organizations whose IRS filings report $173,227,149 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($20,503,218). 315 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Marquette University have?
- IRS filings report 510 organizations giving $173,227,149 in grants to Marquette University, 315 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Marquette University?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $20,503,218 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Marquette University 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.
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 510 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