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ROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC

ROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 125 organizations whose IRS filings report $133,014,678 to it, the largest being VIRTUA HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ($58,750,000). 72 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$33M
Revenue FY2025
125
Funders on record
$133M
Grants received
$461M
Net assets
72/125 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 74%

Against its field

ROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,681 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin31% · top quartile
Months of reserve8.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,681 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($24M) Expenses 100 ($13M) Net assets 100 ($208M)2018 Revenue 126 ($31M) Expenses 114 ($15M) Net assets 110 ($228M)2019 Revenue 90 ($22M) Expenses 112 ($14M) Net assets 114 ($237M)2020 Revenue 114 ($28M) Expenses 109 ($14M) Net assets 115 ($238M)2021 Revenue 160 ($39M) Expenses 117 ($15M) Net assets 163 ($339M)2022 Revenue 241 ($59M) Expenses 135 ($17M) Net assets 168 ($349M)2023 Revenue 198 ($48M) Expenses 146 ($19M) Net assets 188 ($390M)2024 Revenue 139 ($34M) Expenses 157 ($20M) Net assets 206 ($427M)2025 Revenue 137 ($33M) Expenses 180 ($23M) Net assets 222 ($461M)
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Revenue (137)Expenses (180)Net assets (222)Peer revenue range

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

65% of ROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,261 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.

$12M
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$16M
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$7.7M
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$14M
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$24M
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$42M
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$30M
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$14M
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8.6
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02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 23 funders to 53 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $14M.

17 of 125 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)7% 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: $374k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Rowan University Alumni Association). These are real filings, and they are not money ROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC raised.

From the IRS filings of ROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 125 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

ROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

83% 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 ROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC.

44%
largest funder
79%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 28% · 2019 39% · 2020 28% · 2021 86% · 2022 81% · 2023 36%growing more concentrated.

“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

47% of ROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

91% of ROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.

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

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New Jersey out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 125 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding ROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.2M on record.

State$1.2M
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Top programs
  • GRANT IN AID$1.1M
  • DEDICATED$168k
  • DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$500

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 ROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In New Jersey

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 4%Fundraising 0%

Governance

33
board members
88%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

43%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 30 states

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Part of a family of 5 related entities

  • Rowan Innovation Venture Fund LLC · disregarded
  • Rowan University · exempt
  • South Jersey Technology Park at Rowan University Inc · exempt
  • Rowan Global Inc · exempt
  • Rowan Educational Attractions Inc · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds ROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC?
ROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 125 organizations whose IRS filings report $133,014,678 to it, the largest being VIRTUA HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ($58,750,000). 72 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 125 organizations giving $133,014,678 in grants to ROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC, 72 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC?
VIRTUA HEALTH FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $58,750,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 125funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing