Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
SAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY
SAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 133 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,918,451 to it, the largest being National Collegiate Athletic Association ($4,458,858). 70 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $104M
- Funders on record
- 133
- Grants received
- $21M
- Net assets
- $107M
What Saint Francis University does
Mission
As the oldest franciscan institution of higher learning in the united states, Saint Francis University draws inspiration from our catholic tradition and expresses the lived example of saint francis of assissi in the modern world. Continued on schedule "o".saint francis promotes an inclusive learning community and a lifelong path to virtue, truth, and compassion. Within a culture that seeks understanding through innovation and collaboration, we champion the inherent dignity of the individual person and the common good.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Saint Francis University ("sfu"), founded in 1847 by the franciscans of the third order regular, is the oldest franciscan college in the nation. Located in loretto, pa, the university is an integral part of the region, providing higher education, cultural events, performing arts, athletic competition, and numerous community outreach programs for cambria county and beyond. Over 98% of the university's undergraduate students receive some sort of financial aid. Sfu provides educational opportunities to the community and serves both traditional and non-traditional students. In addition to sfu's main campus location in loretto, the university conducts instruction at various locations in western pa in both undergraduate and graduate programs. Continued on "schedule o".sfu currently has approximately 1,424 full-time and 140 part-time undergraduate students and 398 graduate students. All full-time undergraduate students are required to perform community service. Sfu estimates that over 8,000 hours were dedicated to service by sfu students.the university's centers offer a wide variety of services for the area: the small business development center (sbdc) provides expertise in financing,…
$91,912,078 spentof which $37,553,140 as grants$84,632,976 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $91,912,078.
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 $136M to $151M (+11%).
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 4% · 2020 4% · 2021 5% · 2022 7% · 2023 4% · 2024 3% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
8% of SAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY’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
Very Rev Joseph Lehman
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 32 funders to 51 funders, grant income rose $1.5M → $2.3M.
21 of 133 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 SAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 133 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
SAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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
63% 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 SAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 42% · 2019 27% · 2020 31% · 2021 29% · 2022 41% · 2023 30% — 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
31% of SAINT FRANCIS 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
SAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 23 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
SAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY's funding base is broadening — from 32 funders to 51 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding SAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $17.5M on record — $17.5M federal, $4k state.
- Department of Education$12.5M
- Department of Labor$1.0M
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.0M
- Appalachian Regional Commission$1.0M
- National Science Foundation$483k
- Department of Defense$481k
- Employee Tuition Costs$4k
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 SAINT FRANCIS 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 Pennsylvania
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
- Disepio Institute for Rural Health and Wellness · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SAINT FRANCIS 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 SAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY?
- SAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 133 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,918,451 to it, the largest being National Collegiate Athletic Association ($4,458,858). 70 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 133 organizations giving $20,918,451 in grants to SAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY, 70 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY?
- National Collegiate Athletic Association is the largest funder on record, with $4,458,858 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 133 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