New York · Nonprofit
ST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY
ST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY (New York) receives grants from 138 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,716,565 to it, the largest being MOTHER CABRINI HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ($2,450,000). 84 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $184M
- Funders on record
- 138
- Grants received
- $17M
- Net assets
- $312M
What St John Fisher University does
Mission
St. John fisher university fosters a collaborative and inclusive community where students grow into purposeful leaders through a transformational educational experience rooted in our catholic heritage and guided by our basilian tradition.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Instruction: to give instruction in liberal arts courses leading to the degrees of ba, bs, bba, master science, mba, and pharm d.
$91,417,847 spentof which $53,279,745 as grants$125,547,317 earned by the program67% of program spendingStudent services: to support the instruction function.
$18,422,030 spent$5,318,605 earned by the program13% of program spendingAcademic support: to support the instruction function.
$17,275,244 spent$2,617,703 earned by the program13% of program spendingAuxiliary enterprises: to support the instruction function.
$9,355,124 spent$22,714,821 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $136,470,245.
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 2024 to 2025, from $351M to $403M (+15%).
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 2% · 2019 4% · 2020 1% · 2021 7% · 2022 7% · 2023 3% · 2024 3% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
12% of ST JOHN FISHER 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.
Chief executive
Holly Brown
Exec. Dir golisano institut
Board chair
Mr Philip H Yawman
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 29 funders to 55 funders, grant income rose $786k → $2.3M.
14 of 138 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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: $1.5M from 8 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Dallas Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money ST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY raised.
From the IRS filings of ST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 138 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
ST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
28% 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 ST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 19% · 2019 14% · 2020 20% · 2021 29% · 2022 30% · 2023 15% — 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 ST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
72% of ST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
ST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 684 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding ST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $27.9M on record — $27.9M federal, $3k state.
- Department of Education$15.4M
- Department of Health and Human Services$7.0M
- National Science Foundation$4.7M
- National Endowment for the Humanities$648k
- Department of Commerce$160k
- DE POSTSECONDARY SCHLRSHP$3k
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 ST JOHN FISHER 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 York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
58%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Sjfc Prime Care LLC · disregarded
- St John Fisher Real Estate LLC · disregarded
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ST JOHN FISHER 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 ST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY?
- ST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY (New York) receives grants from 138 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,716,565 to it, the largest being MOTHER CABRINI HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ($2,450,000). 84 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 138 organizations giving $16,716,565 in grants to ST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY, 84 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY?
- MOTHER CABRINI HEALTH FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,450,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 138 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