Illinois · Nonprofit
Roosevelt University
Roosevelt University (Illinois) receives grants from 135 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,534,307 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($6,449,252). 73 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $130M
- Funders on record
- 135
- Grants received
- $22M
- Net assets
- $110M
What Roosevelt University does
Mission
Roosevelt University is an independent, non-profit, metropolitan university and national leader in educating socially conscious citizens for active and dedicated lives as leaders in their professions and their communities. The university's student-centered faculty and staff inspire academically qualified students to benefit from rigorous higher education and professional development opportunities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Roosevelt University offers programs and services that reinforce its student-centered mission. The university offers more than 100 undergraduate, graduate and certificate programs and is committed to the highest academic standards for all programs. Class schedules are flexible. Courses are offered from early morning until late at night, as well as on weekends. Additionally, in fall 2024, the university offered more than 250 online class sections with course enrollments exceeding 5,000 students. Fully online degree programs are available. Class sizes are small. At the undergraduate level, the average class size is 21 and at the graduate level, the average class size is 15. Roosevelt serves approximately 2,850 undergraduate and 1,425 graduate students. The following is a listing of the approximate number of students by college: humanities, education and social science - 1,475 students; performing arts - 475 students; business - 925 students; and science, health, and pharmacy - 1,400 students.
$117,944,868 spentof which $28,542,644 as grants$114,626,086 earned by the program92% of program spendingRoosevelt University provides support services that foster learning and student success on campus. These services include: faculty- led experiential learning opportunities, the academic success center, career services, counseling center, disability services, learning communities, health & wellness programs, international programs and tutoring.
$9,356,885 spent7% of program spendingRoosevelt University's commitment to social justice is deeply rooted in its history and is reflected in its mission, strategic plan, research and learning opportunities both in and outside of the classroom.
$724,887 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $128,026,640.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $462M to $405M (−12%).
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 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 3% · 2020 4% · 2021 12% · 2022 13% · 2023 7% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 27 funders to 50 funders, grant income fell $1.8M → $1.6M.
23 of 135 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 Roosevelt University’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 135 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
Roosevelt University has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% 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
58% 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 Roosevelt University.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 62% · 2019 58% · 2020 31% · 2021 31% · 2022 25% · 2023 20% — 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
33% of Roosevelt University's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
Roosevelt University draws 53% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 25 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.3M 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.
Government funding Roosevelt University receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $61.5M on record.
- Department of Education$57.9M
- National Science Foundation$3.4M
- Department of Defense$161k
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 Roosevelt 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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University Inc · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Roosevelt 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 Roosevelt University?
- Roosevelt University (Illinois) receives grants from 135 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,534,307 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($6,449,252). 73 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Roosevelt University have?
- IRS filings report 135 organizations giving $21,534,307 in grants to Roosevelt University, 73 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Roosevelt University?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $6,449,252 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Roosevelt University find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 135 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