Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
MORAVIAN UNIVERSITY
MORAVIAN UNIVERSITY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 131 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,625,223 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY ($1,001,808). 80 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $165M
- Funders on record
- 131
- Grants received
- $7.6M
- Net assets
- $277M
What Moravian University does
Mission
Moravian University's revolutionary experience is focused on creating a community of learners where students work closely with professors to develop skills and habits, integrating them into professional careers through experiential learning. By focusing on the skills of communication, analysis, teamwork and leadership, ethical reasoning, global awareness, and critical thinking, Moravian University prepares students with the transferable skills needed for any career. A moravian education is unique in its use of history, skill of reflectivity, and its encouragement to be producers. The founders of Moravian University were producers as well as educators, so a moravian education focuses on the production of new knowledge, music, literature, art, and technology. Students put all these skills into practice through undergraduate research, study abroad, internships, co-ops, certificates, and first professional graduate degrees.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Moravian University: Moravian University operates an independent, residential university affiliated with the moravian church in america. The university offers undergraduate and graduate degrees that blend liberal arts with professional programs. For more than 275 years, the Moravian University degree has been preparing students for reflective lives, fulfilling careers, and transformative leadership in a world of change. The university educates a socially and religiously diverse group of students from a variety of ethnic backgrounds. During the year ended june 30, 2025, the university had an enrollment of 1,788 full-time undergraduate students, 364 full-time graduate students, and 98 full-time doctoral students.
$116,321,334 spentof which $56,203,932 as grants$114,537,358 earned by the program88% of program spendingSchool of theology: the school of theology offers master's degrees and graduate certificates providing the theological depth, practical skills, and spiritual wisdom to serve with purpose and confidence. Rooted in the ecumenical hospitality and prophetic witness of the moravian church and the united church of christ, the Moravian University school of theology educates leaders who cultivate community, pursue justice, and embody christ's radical love through lives of service, scholarship, and spiritual depth. The average full-time equivalent enrollment for the year ended june 30, 2025, was 40 students.
$2,649,779 spentof which $559,132 as grants$1,136,046 earned by the program2% of program spendingAuxiliary enterprises: Moravian University provides textbooks, educational materials and supplies through its bookstore, living accommodations through its dormitories and nutritious meals through its food services to the students listed in part iii, lines 4a and 4b.
$12,575,398 spent$15,432,494 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $131,546,511.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $298M to $376M (+26%).
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 2% · 2021 4% · 2022 5% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Dr Bryon L Grisby
President/CEO
Board chair
Brian H Oswald
Chair joint board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 24 funders to 46 funders, grant income rose $233k → $851k.
23 of 131 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 MORAVIAN UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 131 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
MORAVIAN UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
62% 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 MORAVIAN UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 19% · 2018 20% · 2019 17% · 2020 19% · 2021 28% · 2022 17% · 2023 25% — growing more concentrated.
“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
46% of MORAVIAN UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
53% of MORAVIAN UNIVERSITY's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.
Government funding MORAVIAN UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $17.5M on record.
- Department of Education$10.5M
- National Science Foundation$5.6M
- Department of the Interior$750k
- Department of Health and Human Services$629k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$60k
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 MORAVIAN 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Moravian University Housing Inc · exempt
- Alpha Alpha Alpha · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MORAVIAN 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 MORAVIAN UNIVERSITY?
- MORAVIAN UNIVERSITY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 131 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,625,223 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY ($1,001,808). 80 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MORAVIAN UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 131 organizations giving $7,625,223 in grants to MORAVIAN UNIVERSITY, 80 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MORAVIAN UNIVERSITY?
- UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY is the largest funder on record, with $1,001,808 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MORAVIAN UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 131 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