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SIENA HEIGHTS UNIVERSITY

SIENA HEIGHTS UNIVERSITY (Michigan) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,616,630 to it, the largest being THE STEPHEN L HICKMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,270,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$67M
Revenue FY2025
48
Funders on record
$3.6M
Grants received
$34M
Net assets
30/48 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%

Against its field

SIENA HEIGHTS UNIVERSITY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,681 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin11% · above the median
Months of reserve1.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · bottom quartile

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 ($62M) Expenses 100 ($56M) Net assets 100 ($58M)2018 Revenue 94 ($58M) Expenses 102 ($57M) Net assets 104 ($60M)2019 Revenue 96 ($59M) Expenses 102 ($57M) Net assets 108 ($63M)2020 Revenue 96 ($59M) Expenses 107 ($60M) Net assets 107 ($62M)2021 Revenue 101 ($62M) Expenses 104 ($58M) Net assets 121 ($71M)2022 Revenue 100 ($62M) Expenses 118 ($66M) Net assets 112 ($65M)2023 Revenue 99 ($61M) Expenses 108 ($60M) Net assets 117 ($68M)2024 Revenue 90 ($55M) Expenses 106 ($59M) Net assets 113 ($66M)2025 Revenue 108 ($67M) Expenses 107 ($60M) Net assets 59 ($34M)
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Revenue (108)Expenses (107)Net assets (59)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

Government-grant reliance: 2017 11% · 2018 12% · 2019 11% · 2020 11% · 2021 18% · 2022 15% · 2023 2% · 2024 3% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

24% of SIENA HEIGHTS UNIVERSITY’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. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$5.7M
17
$1.4M
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$2.0M
19
$639k
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$3.9M
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$4.3M
22
$636k
23
$3.9M
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$7.0M
25
1.0
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reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $190k → $451k.

9 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)27% 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 SIENA HEIGHTS UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 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

SIENA HEIGHTS UNIVERSITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

40% 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 SIENA HEIGHTS UNIVERSITY.

35%
largest funder
71%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 23% · 2019 63% · 2020 50% · 2021 54% · 2022 55% · 2023 55%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

41% of SIENA HEIGHTS UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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

SIENA HEIGHTS UNIVERSITY draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 13 states in all.

IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
NV
OH
CA
MO
DE
AZ
NC
TX

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

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Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $976k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 48 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 SIENA HEIGHTS UNIVERSITY receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $19.2M on record.

Federal$19.2M
grants $19.2Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Education$16.5M
  • National Science Foundation$2.3M
  • National Endowment for the Humanities$370k

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 SIENA HEIGHTS UNIVERSITY

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 Michigan

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 20%Fundraising 1%

Governance

25
board members
96%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

75%

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

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Adrian Dominican Sisters · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SIENA HEIGHTS 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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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 SIENA HEIGHTS UNIVERSITY?
SIENA HEIGHTS UNIVERSITY (Michigan) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,616,630 to it, the largest being THE STEPHEN L HICKMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,270,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SIENA HEIGHTS UNIVERSITY have?
IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $3,616,630 in grants to SIENA HEIGHTS UNIVERSITY, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SIENA HEIGHTS UNIVERSITY?
THE STEPHEN L HICKMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,270,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SIENA HEIGHTS UNIVERSITY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 48funders 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