Florida · Nonprofit
Nova Southeastern University Inc
Nova Southeastern University Inc (Florida) receives grants from 256 organizations whose IRS filings report $128,583,692 to it, the largest being DRS KIRAN & PALLAVI PATEL 2017 FOUNDATION FOR GLOBAL UNDERSTANDING INC ($83,708,412). 143 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1B
- Funders on record
- 256
- Grants received
- $129M
- Net assets
- $1.3B
What Nova Southeastern University Inc does
Mission
The mission of Nova Southeastern University-a selective, doctoral research university-is to deliver academic programs in a dynamic, innovative environment. We foster academic excellence, leadership, integrity (continued on Schedule O) and scientific, economic, and community contributions through engaging and empowering our students, faculty, staff, alumni and partners.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Instructional Services: Nova Southeastern University (NSU) offers undergraduate degrees, graduate and first professional degrees, and certificate programs to more than 20,000 full-time and part-time students in a wide range of academic programs. In addition to the main Fort Lauderdale/Davie and Oceanographic Campuses in South Florida, courses are taught at 9 regional campuses located across Florida, in Puerto Rico, and Colorado; and at limited sites in other states and foreign countries. The NSU University School offers innovative primary and secondary education to children from preschool through grade 12.(continued on Schedule O)NSU has 15 colleges and schools (fiscal 2025): Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice; College of Dental Medicine; College of Computing and Engineering; College of Optometry; Barry and Judy Silverman College of Pharmacy; College of Psychology; Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Allopathic Medicine; Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine; Dr. Pallavi Patel College of Health Care Sciences; Farquhar Honors College; H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship; Halmos College of Arts and Sciences; Ron and…
$438,981,931 spentof which $163,110,438 as grants$45,891,241 earned by the program52% of program spendingAcademic Support: This comprises functions that directly support the university's primary service mission of instruction, such as the university's library system and art museum. The university libraries include the Martin and Gail Press Health Professions Division Library; the Panza Maurer Law Library; the Oceanographic Campus Library; the NSU University School Media Center; and the Alvin Sherman Library, Research and Information Technology Center. Buildings within the university library system offer wireless access and a variety of study spaces, including group and individual study rooms, collaborative workspaces, individual study carrels, and designated quiet study spaces. At 325,000 square feet, (continued on Schedule O)the Alvin Sherman Library is among the largest library buildings in the Southeastern United States. It also hosts the Write from the Start Writing and Communication Center, Farquhar Honors College, and the Alan B. Levan | NSU Broward Center of Innovation.
$117,774,930 spentof which $36,781 as grants$12,465,467 earned by the program14% of program spendingAuxiliary Enterprises: Nova Southeastern University's NSU Health is a patient centric, integrated health care network built on a foundation of education, research, and the highest quality patient care.NSU Health has many outpatient facilities and provides care in medical, dental, optometry, pharmacy, and mental health services, including family therapy. There are also specialty services available, such as audiology, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and speech language pathology. In addition to the health care facilities on the Fort Lauderdale/Davie Campus, NSU Health provides services to the surrounding community. (continued on Schedule O)The Don Taft University Center is a more than 325,000-square-foot facility featuring three NCAA competition courts, group fitness and instruction rooms, cardio and weight training areas, squash courts, a rock climbing wall, and the Flight Deck Pub. The Performing and Visual Arts Wing of the Don Taft University Center includes state-of-the-art classrooms and facilities that support the art, dance, music, and theatre majors of the Department of Communication, Media, and the Arts (DCMA) at the Halmos College of Arts and Sciences.In March…
$87,840,113 spentof which $794,620 as grants$821,101,231 earned by the program10% of program spendingMore than 250 research projects are currently under way at NSU,including studies on cardiovascular disease, anticancer therapies,chronic fatigue syndrome, autism, coral reef restoration, stem cells,and wildlife DNA forensics, among other subjects. The Center forCollaborative Research (CCR) consists of 215,000 square feet ofresearch and collaborative spaces. This project is registered with theU.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and is the first NSU facility toachieve a LEED certification level of Gold. The facility houses corefacilities including Genomics, Flow Cytometry, Cell Therapy andImaging. The CCR brings multiple disciplines together, with studentsand NSU faculty members partnering with professionals and organizationsoutside of the NSU community-furthering cutting-edge research anddeveloping technologies that will benefit the global community. In 2025, NSU was recognized by the Carnegie Classificationsystem as one of only 21 universities nationwide to hold allthree of the following designations: Very High Research Activity(R1), Community Engaged Institution, and Opportunity College& University (OCU). Its R1 classification places NSU among thetop tier of U.S. research…
$199,035,062 spentof which $11,330,631 as grants$66,348,686 earned by the program24% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $843,632,036.
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 $1.6B to $1.8B (+13%).
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 4% · 2018 3% · 2019 4% · 2020 5% · 2021 5% · 2022 6% · 2023 4% · 2024 5% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
6% of Nova Southeastern University Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Charles L Palmer
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 49 funders to 90 funders, grant income rose $1.8M → $6.5M.
26 of 256 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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: $23M from 27 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest University of Miami). These are real filings, and they are not money Nova Southeastern University Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Nova Southeastern University Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 256 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
Nova Southeastern University Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 56% · 2019 93% · 2020 24% · 2021 77% · 2022 30% · 2023 9% — 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
37% of Nova Southeastern University Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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 Nova Southeastern University Inc's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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
Nova Southeastern University Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 679 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 679 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding Nova Southeastern University Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $204.9M on record — $193.5M federal, $11.4M state.
- Department of Education$65.7M
- Department of Health and Human Services$52.3M
- Department of Defense$44.0M
- Department of Commerce$13.2M
- Department of the Interior$11.6M
- National Science Foundation$4.0M
- FL$11.3M
- NJ$95k
- VT$7k
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 Nova Southeastern 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 5 states
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- NSU Grande Oaks LLC · disregarded
- NSU Park Plaza LLC · disregarded
- NSU Health LLC · disregarded
- NSU Guaranty Insurance Company LTD · corp_trust
- The Pointe Corp Office Park Prop Owners Assn Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Nova Southeastern 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 Nova Southeastern University Inc?
- Nova Southeastern University Inc (Florida) receives grants from 256 organizations whose IRS filings report $128,583,692 to it, the largest being DRS KIRAN & PALLAVI PATEL 2017 FOUNDATION FOR GLOBAL UNDERSTANDING INC ($83,708,412). 143 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Nova Southeastern University Inc have?
- IRS filings report 256 organizations giving $128,583,692 in grants to Nova Southeastern University Inc, 143 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Nova Southeastern University Inc?
- DRS KIRAN & PALLAVI PATEL 2017 FOUNDATION FOR GLOBAL UNDERSTANDING INC is the largest funder on record, with $83,708,412 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Nova Southeastern University Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 256 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