Florida · Nonprofit
PALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC
PALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC (Florida) receives grants from 215 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,307,443 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($17,349,921). 113 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $164M
- Funders on record
- 215
- Grants received
- $54M
- Net assets
- $236M
What Palm Beach Atlantic University Inc does
Mission
Palm beach atlantic university equips students to grow in wisdom, lead with conviction and serve god boldly.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Palm beach atlantic university offers higher education to a total of 4,271 students, encompassing both full-time and part-time students, across its 70 undergraduate, 16 graduate, and 3 professional degree programs, and also provides a range of auxiliary services such as continuing education, student housing, a dining hall, and a bookstore, to name a few. Moreover, the university extends financial assistance to 2,826 students, noting that this number may vary from the overall student count since certain students may receive multiple types of financial awards.
$142,740,625 spentof which $50,365,649 as grants$131,797,151 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $142,740,625.
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 2023 to 2024, from $312M to $358M (+15%).
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 3% · 2018 3% · 2019 3% · 2020 5% · 2021 8% · 2022 7% · 2023 2% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of PALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Thomas Mccaffrey
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 37 funders to 77 funders, grant income rose $1.5M → $6.3M.
25 of 215 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 PALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 215 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
PALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 62% · 2019 49% · 2020 41% · 2021 19% · 2022 44% · 2023 24% — 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
35% of PALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
52% of PALM BEACH ATLANTIC 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. $7.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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
PALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC is better cushioned than half of the 684 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding PALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $13.2M on record — $13.2M federal, $3k state.
- Department of Education$13.2M
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $3k
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 PALM BEACH ATLANTIC 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
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- D & L Land Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PALM BEACH ATLANTIC 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 PALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC?
- PALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC (Florida) receives grants from 215 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,307,443 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($17,349,921). 113 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC have?
- IRS filings report 215 organizations giving $54,307,443 in grants to PALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC, 113 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $17,349,921 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PALM BEACH ATLANTIC 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.
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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 215 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