Wisconsin · Nonprofit
MOUNT MARY UNIVERSITY INC
MOUNT MARY UNIVERSITY INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,834,177 to it, the largest being THE BURKE FOUNDATION INC ($11,054,444). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $40M
- Funders on record
- 68
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $65M
What Mount Mary University Inc does
Mission
Mount mary university, an urban catholic university for women sponsored by the school sisters of notre dame, provides an environment for the development of the whole person. The university encourages leadership, integrity, and a deep sense of social justice arising from a sensitivity to moral values and christian principles. Mount mary commits itself to excellence in teaching and learning with an emphasis on thinking critically and creatively. The baccalaureate curriculum integrates the liberal arts with career preparation for women of diverse ages and personal circumstances; the programs at the graduate level provide opportunities for both men and women to enhance their professional excellence.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Mount mary university had approximately 876 undergraduate and 510 graduate students enrolled for the fiscal year ending june 30, 2025. For the 2425 academic year, 304 degrees were awarded (38 doctorate, 114 masters, 7 baccalaureate certificates and 145 baccalaureate degrees) were awarded to students.
$27,154,909 spentof which $15,093,612 as grants$27,985,825 earned by the program83% of program spendingThe university serviced approximately 1,386 students with admissions, recruitment, orientation, financial aid, tutoring, student engagement, campus ministry, student advising, fitness center, career development, counseling center, registrar, resident life, information technology and athletic teams for support of the whole student.
$3,834,390 spent$2,185,864 earned by the program12% of program spendingThe university serviced approximately 1,386 students with various student engagement and community supporting initiatives. I.e. Student advising, international center for students, counseling center, library
$1,887,388 spent6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $32,876,687.
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 2020 to 2021, from $72M to $83M (+16%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 3% · 2021 11% · 2022 6% · 2023 3% · 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. 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $1.3M → $1.7M.
14 of 68 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 MOUNT MARY UNIVERSITY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 68 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
MOUNT MARY UNIVERSITY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 MOUNT MARY UNIVERSITY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 53% · 2019 91% · 2020 73% · 2021 56% · 2022 62% · 2023 71% — 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
36% of MOUNT MARY UNIVERSITY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
88% of MOUNT MARY 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. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 MOUNT MARY UNIVERSITY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $27.3M on record.
- Department of Education$16.8M
- Department of Health and Human Services$5.1M
- National Science Foundation$4.6M
- Department of Justice$499k
- Department of the Interior$146k
- Department of Homeland Security$44k
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 MOUNT MARY 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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- School Sisters of Notre Dame · exempt
- Ssnd Mmu McH Venture Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MOUNT MARY 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 MOUNT MARY UNIVERSITY INC?
- MOUNT MARY UNIVERSITY INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,834,177 to it, the largest being THE BURKE FOUNDATION INC ($11,054,444). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MOUNT MARY UNIVERSITY INC have?
- IRS filings report 68 organizations giving $15,834,177 in grants to MOUNT MARY UNIVERSITY INC, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MOUNT MARY UNIVERSITY INC?
- THE BURKE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $11,054,444 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MOUNT MARY 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 68 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