Ohio · Nonprofit
MUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY
MUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY (Ohio) receives grants from 94 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,023,519 to it, the largest being J WILLIAM & MARY STRAKER CHARITABLE FDN ($1,250,600). 69 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $71M
- Funders on record
- 94
- Grants received
- $9.0M
- Net assets
- $178M
What Muskingum University does
Mission
The mission of Muskingum University is to prepare a continuum of learners to think critically, excel professionally, grow personally, and contribute ethically to our changing world. We create opportunity. We provide a strong return on learners' (continued on schedule o)
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The traditional undergraduate program consists of students attending school as their primary activity, mostly full-time during the day-time hours. Programs include 51 academic majors, 10 pre-professional programs, including pre-medicine and pre-law; teacher licensure in 21 areas. There are more than 40 international exchange study programs in 18 countries. Also, available is the professionally-staffed plus program for students with learning differences. During the fiscal year ending in june 30, 2025, there were 1,755 students enrolled in the undergraduate program.
$58,158,414 spentof which $23,144,262 as grants$52,671,979 earned by the program95% of program spendingMuskingum University serves a continuum of learners through our graduate and continuing studies program by offering a variety of online and hybrid programs for both undergraduate and post-graduate degree- seekers as well as continuing education and professional development opportunities. Our mission is to address the needs of students desiring an alternative education pathway to better balance education with work, family and life responsibilities. Available programs include: education: master of arts in education, master of arts in teaching, ed.s, teacher licensures and endorsements, and continuing education courses; business: doctor of organizational leadership, master of organizational leadership, master of business administration, bachelor of arts in business management, and professional development courses; health: master of occupational therapy, bachelor of science in nursing rn-to-bsn and accelerated bsn, bachelor of science in health science, healthcare administration, medical laboratory studies and occupational science, and professional development courses. During the fiscal year ending june 30, 2025, 911 students were enrolled in the graduate and continuing studies…
$3,264,011 spent$4,693,218 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $61,422,425.
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 $166M to $190M (+14%).
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 2% · 2021 15% · 2022 9% · 2023 2% · 2024 1% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
10% of MUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Michelle Shaver
Executive director of stra
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 49 funders, grant income rose $390k → $825k.
22 of 94 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 MUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 94 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
MUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% 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
51% 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 MUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 30% · 2019 23% · 2020 21% · 2021 35% · 2022 34% · 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
61% of MUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
73% of MUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
MUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY's funding base is broadening — from 17 funders to 49 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding MUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $14.8M on record.
- Department of Education$12.1M
- Department of Labor$2.5M
- Appalachian Regional Commission$157k
- National Science Foundation$144k
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 MUSKINGUM 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
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 5 related entities
- Mu Quad Center LLC · partnership
- Mu Student Housing LLC · partnership
- Mu Student Housing Master Tenant · partnership
- Mu Quad Center Manager LLC · corp_trust
- Mu Student Housing Manager · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY?
- MUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY (Ohio) receives grants from 94 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,023,519 to it, the largest being J WILLIAM & MARY STRAKER CHARITABLE FDN ($1,250,600). 69 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 94 organizations giving $9,023,519 in grants to MUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY, 69 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY?
- J WILLIAM & MARY STRAKER CHARITABLE FDN is the largest funder on record, with $1,250,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MUSKINGUM 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.
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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 94 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