Connecticut · Nonprofit
QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY
QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY (Connecticut) receives grants from 237 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,148,197 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($6,577,106). 126 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $659M
- Funders on record
- 237
- Grants received
- $30M
- Net assets
- $1.6B
What Quinnipiac University does
Mission
To build the university of the future with a strategy propelling us from our storied past toward an ambitious, inclusive & innovative future by preparing graduates as enlightened global citizens equipped for the challenges & opportunities of careers of the future. (sch o) we are a community that embraces positive change, inclusive excellence, kindness and generosity of spirit with a commitment to lift the communities in which we live. Our students, faculty and staff are bold and curious, innovators and explorers. We partner with employers to understand and prepare graduates who meet their talent and technological needs, we embrace lifelong learning, and we pursue learning and scholarship that asks and addresses significant societal and scientific questions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Educational programs: includes the provision of instruction as well as research activities. Quinnipiac University offers programs of instruction leading to undergraduate and graduate degrees in a wide range of professional fields relating to health sciences, business law, and communications, as well as in various theoretical and applied disciplines of arts and science. The university has approximately 6,500 full-time undergraduate, 200 part-time undergraduate, and 2,700 full-time and part-time graduate enrolled students.
$175,985,767 spentof which $210,374,717 as grants$464,300,075 earned by the program35% of program spendingAuxiliary services: includes the provision of dormitory and dining services for residential students as well as upkeep for student facilities. Students at qu do more than earn a degree. They are part of a vibrant community where students rally around common interests, passions and causes. Students live in a diverse community in an environment purposefully designed to create a healthy and active lifestyle.
$78,243,946 spent$90,799,170 earned by the program16% of program spendingStudent service programs: includes the provision for programs and services supporting the student life program and expenditures relating to student financial aid. Quinnipiac University has a vast array of services to support its students including, but not limited to, health & wellness counseling and support, financial aid guidance, athletics and recreation, clubs and activities, spiritual and religious life.
$249,627,845 spent$6,866,350 earned by the program50% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $503,857,558.
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 (+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 1% · 2018 0% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 2% · 2022 4% · 2023 2% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY’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 Saia Jr
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 46 funders to 72 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $4.1M.
29 of 237 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 237 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
QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
72% 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 QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 34% · 2019 28% · 2020 50% · 2021 29% · 2022 24% · 2023 25% — 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
29% of QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY'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
QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY draws 85% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 27 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY runs a healthier operating margin 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 QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $55.2M on record — $38.3M federal, $16.9M state.
- Department of Education$31.7M
- Department of Defense$3.5M
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.1M
- Department of the Treasury$947k
- National Science Foundation$752k
- Small Business Administration$406k
- CT$16.6M
- NJ$246k
- VT$42k
- DE$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 QUINNIPIAC 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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
48%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Irelands Great Hunger Museum Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for QUINNIPIAC 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 QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY?
- QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY (Connecticut) receives grants from 237 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,148,197 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($6,577,106). 126 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 237 organizations giving $30,148,197 in grants to QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY, 126 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $6,577,106 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 237 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