Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY
SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 211 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,993,890 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,978,629). 131 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $430M
- Funders on record
- 211
- Grants received
- $29M
- Net assets
- $797M
What Saint Joseph's University does
Mission
As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. We prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. Striving to be an inclusive and diverse community that educates and cares for the whole person, we encourage and model lifelong commitment to thinking critically, making ethical decisions, pursuing social justice, and finding god in all things.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
See schedule oon january 3, 2024, upon the finalization of the university's merger with pennsylvania college of health sciences in lancaster, saint joseph's opened its new school of nursing and allied health which brought 19 new healthcare programs. The new school gives students the option to earn nursing degrees through associate (asn), bachelor's (bsn) or master's level (msn-np) degree programs. Along with this, a variety of allied health certificates and associate degrees are being offered, from radiology to cardiac or vascular sonography, nuclear medicine to surgical or cardiovascular technology and so much more.at the core of a saint joseph's education is the college of arts and sciences. As home to the university's general education program, the college of arts and sciences empowers students to develop criticalthinking, creativity, clear communication skills and ethical reasoning, regardless of their major. This is the heart of the jesuit, catholic educational model. In addition to this strong foundation in the liberalarts, the college offers specialized programs in the arts and social and natural sciences, leading to careers in law, medicine, computer science and more.the…
$388,105,790 spentof which $142,922,109 as grants$366,657,139 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $388,105,790.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2022 to 2023, from $880M to $1.5B (+70%).
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: 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 2% · 2021 3% · 2022 4% · 2023 1% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
8% of SAINT JOSEPH'S 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. 1 of the last 8 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
James M Norris
Trustee/chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 39 funders to 86 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $4.8M.
26 of 211 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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: $11M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Delaware Valley Educational Telecommunications Network). These are real filings, and they are not money SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY raised.
From the IRS filings of SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 211 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 JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
68% 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 JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 36% · 2019 41% · 2020 30% · 2021 10% · 2022 15% · 2023 12% — 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
43% of SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
50% of SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $14M that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 23 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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 JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY's revenue grew 22% between 2018 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $27.5M on record — $27.2M federal, $317k state.
- Department of Education$16.9M
- National Science Foundation$4.2M
- Department of Health and Human Services$3.3M
- Department of Justice$1000k
- Department of Commerce$687k
- Small Business Administration$465k
- FEDERAL$315k
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$2k
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 JOSEPH'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 Pennsylvania
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
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 20 states
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Delval Educational Tele Network · exempt
- Middle Atlantic Catholic Risk Mgmt · exempt
- Charitable Remainder Trust (3) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SAINT JOSEPH'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 JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY?
- SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 211 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,993,890 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,978,629). 131 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 211 organizations giving $28,993,890 in grants to SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY, 131 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $3,978,629 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAINT JOSEPH'S 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 211 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