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MOUNT ST JOSEPH UNIVERSITY

MOUNT ST JOSEPH UNIVERSITY (Ohio) receives grants from 77 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,433,829 to it, the largest being THE HOLLYHOCK FOUNDATION INC ($3,793,828). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$77M
Funders on record
77
Grants received
$11M
Net assets
$105M
43/77 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Mount St Joseph University does

Mission

Mount st. Joseph university is a catholic academic community grounded in the spiritual values and vision of its founders, the sisters of charity. The university educates its students through interdisciplinary liberal arts and professional curricula emphasizing values, integrity and social responsibility. Members of the mount community embrace excellence in academic endeavors, the integration of life and learning, respect and concern for all persons, diversity of cultures and beliefs, and service to others.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Undergraduate education - the university's undergraduate academic programs inspire excellence, intellectual challenge, and real life experiences. Majors are offered in business, behavioral and natural sciences, education, health sciences, and liberal arts. In addition, students have the opportunity to expand learning beyond the classroom through cooperative education, service learning and study abroad programs. The university offers programs tailored to traditional, adult and part-time students. The university reported enrollment of 1,460 for the 2024-2025 academic year.

    $40,106,235 spentof which $24,669,689 as grants$45,934,108 earned by the program
    61% of program spending

  2. Student and residence life - includes admission and enrollment of students as well as personal and career support. Also includes various campus activities and 21 athletic programs. Residence life is committed to providing quality housing for full-time single students that enhance the experience of each resident while supporting academic achievement and the mission of the university.

    $16,010,275 spent$5,316,655 earned by the program
    24% of program spending

  3. Graduate education - offers masters and doctoral programs. Instruct and provide academic support to students enrolled in those programs. Degrees include education, health sciences, mba and organizational leadership. The university reported enrollment of 645 for the 2024-2025 academic year.

    $10,062,120 spentof which $888,359 as grants$17,826,443 earned by the program
    15% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $66,178,630.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($52M) Expenses 100 ($50M) Net assets 100 ($68M)2018 Revenue 112 ($58M) Expenses 103 ($52M) Net assets 109 ($74M)2019 Revenue 147 ($76M) Expenses 109 ($55M) Net assets 144 ($98M)2020 Revenue 112 ($58M) Expenses 117 ($59M) Net assets 139 ($95M)2021 Revenue 119 ($62M) Expenses 115 ($58M) Net assets 164 ($112M)2022 Revenue 134 ($70M) Expenses 132 ($67M) Net assets 148 ($101M)2023 Revenue 125 ($65M) Expenses 139 ($70M) Net assets 145 ($99M)2024 Revenue 131 ($68M) Expenses 146 ($73M) Net assets 148 ($101M)2025 Revenue 148 ($77M) Expenses 148 ($74M) Net assets 154 ($105M)
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Revenue (148)Expenses (148)Net assets (154)Peer revenue range

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 $112M to $136M (+21%).

$89M
$87M
$110M
$112M
$136M
$124M
$123M
$125M
$129M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 4% · 2021 7% · 2022 18% · 2023 3% · 2024 3% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

8% of MOUNT ST JOSEPH UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,254 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.8M
’17
$6.3M
’18
$21M
’19
−$283k
’20
$3.7M
’21
$3.3M
’22
−$4.6M
’23
−$5.4M
’24
$2.9M
’25
2.0
months of
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.

2017201820192020202120242025
Listed39403838373938
Joined·+10+10+7+5·+2
No longer listed·91276·3
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 30 funders, grant income rose $384k → $1.5M.

Funder
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'21
'22
'23
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'25*
total
1n5unclassified
$25k
funders
14
15
25
31
39
29
30
21
14

16 of 77 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 ST JOSEPH UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 77 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 ST JOSEPH UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

29% 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 ST JOSEPH UNIVERSITY.

33%
largest funder
58%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 45% · 2019 63% · 2020 16% · 2021 19% · 2022 46% · 2023 51% — 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

47% of MOUNT ST JOSEPH UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

MOUNT ST JOSEPH UNIVERSITY draws 55% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 13 states in all.

MN
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
KY
WV
DE
NC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MOUNT ST JOSEPH UNIVERSITY's funding base is broadening — from 14 funders to 30 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin4% · below the median
Months of reserve2.0mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Government funding MOUNT ST JOSEPH UNIVERSITY receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10.4M on record.

Federal$10.4M
grants $10.4Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Education$7.1M
  • Department of Health and Human Services$3.1M
  • Department of Justice$300k

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 ST JOSEPH 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 Ohio

University of Dayton83%Franciscan University of Steubenville83%Ohio Christian University81%Muskingum University81%John Carroll University80%Ursuline College80%Mount Carmel College of Nursing79%Malone University79%

Nationally

Mount Saint Mary's University87%Saint John's University86%University of Mount Saint Vincent86%Mount Mary University Inc86%College of Saint Benedict85%Mount Saint Mary's University Inc85%Mount Marty University84%Mount Aloysius College83%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 10%Fundraising 1%

Governance

30
board members
97%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OH

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Sisters of Charity Cincinnati · exempt
  • Cite Inc · corp_trust

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MOUNT ST JOSEPH 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 MOUNT ST JOSEPH UNIVERSITY?
MOUNT ST JOSEPH UNIVERSITY (Ohio) receives grants from 77 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,433,829 to it, the largest being THE HOLLYHOCK FOUNDATION INC ($3,793,828). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MOUNT ST JOSEPH UNIVERSITY have?
IRS filings report 77 organizations giving $11,433,829 in grants to MOUNT ST JOSEPH UNIVERSITY, 43 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MOUNT ST JOSEPH UNIVERSITY?
THE HOLLYHOCK FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,793,828 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MOUNT ST JOSEPH UNIVERSITY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 77 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