New Jersey · Nonprofit
SETON HALL UNIVERSITY
SETON HALL UNIVERSITY (New Jersey) receives grants from 250 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,655,559 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES OF NEW JERSEY INC ($4,442,275). 137 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $657M
- Funders on record
- 250
- Grants received
- $31M
- Net assets
- $591M
What Seton Hall University does
Mission
Seton Hall University is a catholic institution of higher education
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Educational - Seton Hall University operates to provide baccalaureate, masters, and doctoral degrees. Day and evening sessions accommodate both commuter and residential students on a part-time and full time basis.
$387,699,000 spentof which $211,701,000 as grants$489,451,000 earned by the program75% of program spendingAcademic support and student services - academic support provides support services, such as libraries, academic technology, faculty curriculum development, for its primary missions of instruction, research and public service. Student services provide various services to students, such as counseling, career guidance, financial aid, student records, health services and transportation, which contribute to the students' emotional and physical well-being and to their intellectual, cultural and social development outside the context of the university's formal instructional programs.
$117,091,000 spentof which $16,837,000 as grants$9,055,000 earned by the program23% of program spendingResearch, training & public services - enables faculty to explore new areas of education, learning and knowledge and provides non-instructional services to individuals and groups external to the university. The university also offers financial support to students through academic scholarships and work-study programs, which are funded by federal, state and private grants.
$12,297,000 spentof which $1,171,000 as grants$216,000 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $517,087,000.
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 2019 to 2020, from $701M to $815M (+16%).
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 6% · 2018 10% · 2019 7% · 2020 7% · 2021 9% · 2022 10% · 2023 8% · 2024 9% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 50 funders to 92 funders, grant income rose $2.2M → $5.7M.
21 of 250 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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: $39M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Big East Conference Inc); $5.0M from 17 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest New Jersey State Bar Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money SETON HALL UNIVERSITY raised.
From the IRS filings of SETON HALL UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 250 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
SETON HALL UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
48% 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 SETON HALL UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 11% · 2019 39% · 2020 19% · 2021 17% · 2022 32% · 2023 22% — 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
41% of SETON HALL UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
56% of SETON HALL UNIVERSITY's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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 SETON HALL UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $91.1M on record — $52.7M federal, $38.5M state.
- Department of Education$38.7M
- Department of Health and Human Services$11.7M
- Department of Commerce$963k
- Department of Justice$632k
- National Science Foundation$465k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$180k
- GRANT IN AID$25.9M
- BOND FUND$6.3M
- FEDERAL$5.7M
- TRUST FUND$373k
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$106k
- DEDICATED$103k
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 SETON HALL 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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 9 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SETON HALL 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 SETON HALL UNIVERSITY?
- SETON HALL UNIVERSITY (New Jersey) receives grants from 250 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,655,559 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES OF NEW JERSEY INC ($4,442,275). 137 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SETON HALL UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 250 organizations giving $30,655,559 in grants to SETON HALL UNIVERSITY, 137 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SETON HALL UNIVERSITY?
- LEGAL SERVICES OF NEW JERSEY INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,442,275 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SETON HALL UNIVERSITY 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 250 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