California · Nonprofit
MARSHALL B KETCHUM UNIVERSITY
MARSHALL B KETCHUM UNIVERSITY (California) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,366,623 to it, the largest being KIRCHGESSNER VISION FOUNDATION ($210,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $83M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $111M
What Marshall B Ketchum University does
Mission
To educate caring, inspired health care professionals who are prepared to deliver collaborative, patient-centric health care in an interprofessional environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
See schedule ograduate education: the mission of marshall b. Ketchum university is to educate caring, inspired health care professionals, and the curriculum has been established to achieve this goal. In addition to the rigorous academic and clinical curriculum on campus, all professional students rotate through several external clinical sites to broaden and diversify their learning experiences to prepare them for careers in health care. In the fall of 2024, our total enrollment was 633 full-time health professional students representing optometry (403), physician assistant (119), pharmacy (105), master of science in vision science (0), and our international program offering a master of science in clinical optometry (6). In addition, mbku had 2 optometry and 9 pharmacy part-time students. For the 2024-25 academic year, we graduated 38 medical master's science degrees and physician assistant certificates, 90 doctor optometry degrees, 26 doctor of pharmacy degrees, 0 master of science in vision science, and 6 master of science in clinical optometry (this is the last year of this program).the admissions process for fall 2024 enrollment is reported below. At the outset of the…
$25,511,833 spentof which $1,242,647 as grants$35,882,098 earned by the program70% of program spendingSee schedule oclinical education vision/patient care: affiliated with the education program, the university operates full-service vision clinics on its anaheim campus and in downtown los angeles, plus 5 limited-hour community clinics in orange county and los angeles, many located in low-income areas. The clinics together served 29,050 unique encounters. Comprehensive vision services include primary eye care and specialized patient services: basic vision examination; pediatric vision screening, vision care and vision therapy; ocular disease diagnosis and treatment and ophthalmology consultation; contact lenses and prosthetics fitting; low vision rehabilitation and eyewear and optical dispensing. The vision clinics provided $499,960.77 in public support through discounts and fee waivers. We participated in 2 school screenings for 2025 and cared for 383 patients.
$10,042,302 spent$3,328,780 earned by the program27% of program spendingSee schedule oresearch: the university supports research within the three university programs, the colleges of optometry and pharmacy and the school of physician assistant studies. The university provides administrative, and financial resources to faculty and students who engage in research.the southern california college of optometry at mbku has 35 full-time faculty. A total of 32 faculty studies were active during the year, that included externally-funded studies (e.g., grants from nih, professional organizations, foundations and industry), and self-funded studies. The ms in vision science program had 6 projects active during the year and 1 active student research elective. Total external grant revenue for the period was $416,034 and there were 20 peer-reviewed publications.the college of pharmacy is composed of two departments, pharmaceutical sciences and pharmacy practice.the department of pharmacy practice has 12 full-time faculty members, with 11 as pharmacy clinical faculty and 1 non-clinical faculty member. During the year, pharmacy practice faculty produced 36 peer-reviewed publications or presentations and 4 externally funded reseach projects or grants.the department of…
$1,067,456 spent3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $36,621,591.
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 2024 to 2025, from $111M to $153M (+38%).
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 1% · 2021 10% · 2022 1% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of MARSHALL B KETCHUM UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Dr Ray M Baker
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $60k → $166k.
5 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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: $10M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Scco College Properties Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money MARSHALL B KETCHUM UNIVERSITY raised.
From the IRS filings of MARSHALL B KETCHUM UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
MARSHALL B KETCHUM UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
52% 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 MARSHALL B KETCHUM UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 54% · 2019 40% · 2020 20% · 2021 25% · 2022 26% · 2023 30% — 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
39% of MARSHALL B KETCHUM 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
56% of MARSHALL B KETCHUM UNIVERSITY's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $128k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
MARSHALL B KETCHUM UNIVERSITY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding MARSHALL B KETCHUM UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.4M on record.
- Department of Education$866k
- Department of Defense$382k
- Department of Health and Human Services$137k
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 MARSHALL B KETCHUM 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Scco College Properties Inc · exempt
- Charitable Remainder Unitrust (3) · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MARSHALL B KETCHUM UNIVERSITY?
- MARSHALL B KETCHUM UNIVERSITY (California) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,366,623 to it, the largest being KIRCHGESSNER VISION FOUNDATION ($210,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MARSHALL B KETCHUM UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $1,366,623 in grants to MARSHALL B KETCHUM UNIVERSITY, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARSHALL B KETCHUM UNIVERSITY?
- KIRCHGESSNER VISION FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $210,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARSHALL B KETCHUM UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 29 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing