Minnesota · Nonprofit
SAINT JOHN'S UNIVERSITY
SAINT JOHN'S UNIVERSITY (Minnesota) receives grants from 113 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,587,750 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($11,300,000). 75 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $178M
- Funders on record
- 113
- Grants received
- $34M
- Net assets
- $498M
What Saint John's University does
Mission
To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Instruction: Saint John's University's undergraduate college programs are designed to meet the needs and aspirations of young men, emphasizing leadership and a personal development profile that includes intellectual, spiritual, emotional and physical development. Its values-based and value-added residential liberal arts education provides the framework for fulfilling lives of disciplined inquiry and leadership in careers devoted to the professions, public life and service to others. Undergraduate fall enrollment of 1,397 fte students and 329 graduates. Approximately 12 percent of graduates go directly to graduate school, while the remainder choose to find career-related positions or enter service work.saint john's school of theology: seminary graduate program for men and women is a rich and diverse learning community in the benedictine tradition, where students receive strong support for their academic and spiritual development. The graduate program offers the master of arts degree in theology, liturgical studies, liturgical music, pastoral ministry, and a master of divinity degree. These degrees prepare students for ordination to the roman catholic priesthood and deaconate, for…
$73,477,438 spentof which $47,205,563 as grants$78,976,673 earned by the program65% of program spendingStudent services and programming: through a four-year residential program, nearly all students (90%) live on campus. Saint John's University's student development programs promote the health, safety, learning, growth, and development of students within the context of community. We are particularly attentive to college men and their engagement and reflection in ways that are consistent with our catholic, benedictine, residential, liberal arts identity and character. The faculty resident program is a distinctive part of campus life, whereby benedictine professors and administrators live in the residence areas and serve as adult mentors.
$24,058,973 spent$1,478,204 earned by the program21% of program spendingAuxiliary services: as a rural residential campus, st. John's university operates its auxiliary services to enhance the educational experience by building a sense of community. These auxiliary operations provide services such as housing, food service, and the bookstore.
$15,378,074 spent$17,739,095 earned by the program14% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $112,914,485.
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 2020 to 2021, from $425M to $540M (+27%).
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 1% · 2019 2% · 2020 2% · 2021 3% · 2022 3% · 2023 2% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Leanne Stewart
Trustee - chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 31 funders to 55 funders, grant income rose $1.7M → $4.5M.
40 of 113 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 JOHN'S UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 113 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 JOHN'S UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% 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
51% 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 JOHN'S UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 15% · 2019 14% · 2020 24% · 2021 19% · 2022 67% · 2023 28% — 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
51% of SAINT JOHN'S UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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 JOHN'S UNIVERSITY draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 23 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16M arriving through sponsors registered in 21 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 SAINT JOHN'S UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9.4M on record.
- Department of Education$7.5M
- National Endowment for the Humanities$1.8M
- National Endowment for the Arts$30k
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 JOHN'S 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 Minnesota
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
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 11 states
Part of a family of 7 related entities
- Order of St Benedict · exempt
- Ew McCarthy Trust FBO Saint John's University · exempt
- College of Saint Benedict · exempt
- Hill Museum & Manuscript Library · exempt
- Sisters of the Order of Saint Benedict · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SAINT JOHN'S 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 JOHN'S UNIVERSITY?
- SAINT JOHN'S UNIVERSITY (Minnesota) receives grants from 113 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,587,750 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($11,300,000). 75 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAINT JOHN'S UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 113 organizations giving $33,587,750 in grants to SAINT JOHN'S UNIVERSITY, 75 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAINT JOHN'S UNIVERSITY?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $11,300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAINT JOHN'S UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 113 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