Minnesota · Nonprofit
ST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
ST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA (Minnesota) receives grants from 85 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,065,235 to it, the largest being SF FOUNDATION ($5,900,000). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $99M
- Funders on record
- 85
- Grants received
- $18M
- Net assets
- $181M
What St Marys University of Minnesota does
Mission
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Instruction and academic support:saint mary's university of minnesota has two primary academic units: the college and the schools of graduate and professional programs (sgpp). The college consists of the traditional undergraduate bachelor of arts experience based on the winona campus. The sgpp includes continuing education offerings, certificate programs, bachelor of science completion programs, master's programs, education specialist program and five doctoral programs. Across the 12-month 2024-2025 academic year the college enrolled 890 students and delivered 25,170 instructional activity credit hours. The sgpp enrolled 3,797 students across the 2024-2025 academic year and delivered 49,308 instructional activity credit hours. The university expects to maintain enrollment at sgpp in 2025-2026. The university offers 24 majors with the bachelor of arts program. The university offers an additional 57 programs within the sgpp.
$58,067,772 spentof which $25,593,388 as grants$71,630,473 earned by the program76% of program spendingStudent services:in 2024-2025, 316 traditional undergraduate students (about 38% of that population) participated in 15 ncaa division iii sports offered at saint mary's university. Participation in intramural activities annually is over 35%. The financial aid office processed $69,539,660 in loans, grants, work study and scholarship for the entire university in 2024-2025. 89 international students were enrolled at the university in 2024-2025. 47 students participated in the first generation initiative program, which offers selected students scholarships to attend the university and special support activities which include study halls, specialized advising and social activities which promote retention and student success. In addition student success center offers academic advising and tutoring/learning services, including new student orientation to all college students. Students can also make use of the writing center, international center, career services and interships, rise (recreation, involvement and student engagement) as well as campus ministry for a well rounded community experience.
$12,485,161 spent$265,944 earned by the program16% of program spendingAuxiliary services: saint marys' university of minnesota offers its winona undergraduate students a comprehensive residential life experience. Living on campus means being part of a close-knit community, and creating friendships and connections that last a lifetime. 81% of students at the college, reside on campus. Eleven residence halls are located on our beautiful winona campus, surrounded by 450 acres of wooded bluffs and trails. Residence options offer students a variety of traditional single and double occupancy rooms, suites, and apartment-style options. Saint marys' university of minnesota offers three convenient on-campus dining options, toner student center dining hall, cardinal cafe, and cardinal coffee. Several meal plans are tailored to meet each student's needs and schedules. Students can also utilize a new market, which contains a variety of convenient snacks and beverages.
$5,831,795 spent$7,774,648 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $76,384,728.
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 2020 to 2021, from $183M to $207M (+13%).
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 3% · 2018 3% · 2019 3% · 2020 3% · 2021 6% · 2022 8% · 2023 4% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of ST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
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.
Board chair
Stevens Gregory
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $651k → $3.0M.
19 of 85 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 ST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 85 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 MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
30% 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 MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 51% · 2019 52% · 2020 30% · 2021 37% · 2022 48% · 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
26% of ST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA'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
ST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 21 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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 MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA is better cushioned than half of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like ST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 14 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Charitable Remainder Unitrust (6) · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA?
- ST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA (Minnesota) receives grants from 85 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,065,235 to it, the largest being SF FOUNDATION ($5,900,000). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA have?
- IRS filings report 85 organizations giving $18,065,235 in grants to ST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, 52 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA?
- SF FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,900,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA 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.
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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 85 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