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PACE UNIVERSITY

PACE UNIVERSITY (New York) receives grants from 284 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,319,762 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,832,147). 146 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$719M
Funders on record
284
Grants received
$40M
Net assets
$541M
146/284 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Pace University does

Mission

Pace University educates students to be "thinking professionals", highly sought after as innovators and successful leaders who positively impact twenty-first century society.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Instructional - to provide personnel, supplies, equipment and other materials for the instruction of full and part-time graduate and undergraduate students.

    $157,769,825 spent$562,688,304 earned by the program
    25% of program spending
  2. Scholarships - to provide students with academic and/or need-based tuition assistance.

    $246,808,794 spentof which $246,808,794 as grants
    40% of program spending
  3. Auxiliaries - to meet non-instructional needs of students such as dorms and cafeteria services.

    $97,052,032 spent$78,504,733 earned by the program
    16% of program spending
  4. Academic support

    $68,614,911 spent$9,047,270 earned by the program
    11% of program spending
  5. Student services

    $50,619,558 spent$1,945,510 earned by the program
    8% of program spending
  6. Research

    $3,725,759 spent
    1% of program spending

The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $624,590,879.

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 ($578M) Expenses 100 ($544M) Net assets 100 ($275M)2018 Revenue 101 ($581M) Expenses 105 ($570M) Net assets 105 ($289M)2019 Revenue 103 ($597M) Expenses 108 ($588M) Net assets 110 ($301M)2020 Revenue 103 ($598M) Expenses 107 ($583M) Net assets 115 ($318M)2021 Revenue 106 ($613M) Expenses 105 ($570M) Net assets 147 ($405M)2022 Revenue 109 ($628M) Expenses 108 ($586M) Net assets 144 ($397M)2023 Revenue 118 ($683M) Expenses 117 ($638M) Net assets 168 ($463M)2024 Revenue 122 ($708M) Expenses 126 ($683M) Net assets 185 ($509M)2025 Revenue 124 ($719M) Expenses 130 ($707M) Net assets 197 ($541M)
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Revenue (124)Expenses (130)Net assets (197)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 $707M to $1.1B (+61%).

$663M
$683M
$693M
$707M
$1.1B
$1.1B
$1.3B
$1.4B
$1.6B
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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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 2% · 2020 2% · 2021 7% · 2022 2% · 2023 2% · 2024 3% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

5% of PACE UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (14% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 732 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$34M
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$11M
’18
$8.7M
’19
$15M
’20
$43M
’21
$42M
’22
$44M
’23
$24M
’24
$12M
’25
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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.

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Listed586261616670716976
Joined·+11+9+10+13+11+9+5+14
No longer listed·7101087877
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 75 funders to 92 funders, grant income rose $3.2M → $4.9M.

36 of 284 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 PACE UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 284 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

PACE UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left

64% 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 PACE UNIVERSITY.

12%
largest funder
30%
top three
~23
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 14% · 2018 19% · 2019 17% · 2020 16% · 2021 15% · 2022 20% · 2023 10% — 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

39% of PACE UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% give in more than one year at all.

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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

57% of PACE UNIVERSITY's grant income comes from New York funders.

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

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Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 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

PACE UNIVERSITY's funding base is broadening — from 75 funders to 92 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve0.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025

Government funding PACE UNIVERSITY receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $79.6M on record — $79.4M federal, $229k state.

Federal$79.4M
grants $79.4Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Education$51.0M
  • National Science Foundation$11.8M
  • Department of Health and Human Services$5.8M
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$5.0M
  • Department of Energy$3.1M
  • Department of Justice$1.9M
State$229k
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  • FEDERAL$229k

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 PACE 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.

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Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 11%Fundraising 1%

Governance

35
board members
94%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

Part of a family of 4 related entities

  • Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic · exempt
  • John Jay Legal Services Inc · exempt
  • Pace Univ Fund LP · partnership
  • Charitable Remainder Unitrust (1) · corp_trust

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PACE 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 PACE UNIVERSITY?
PACE UNIVERSITY (New York) receives grants from 284 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,319,762 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,832,147). 146 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PACE UNIVERSITY have?
IRS filings report 284 organizations giving $40,319,762 in grants to PACE UNIVERSITY, 146 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PACE UNIVERSITY?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $4,832,147 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PACE UNIVERSITY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 284 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