Florida · Nonprofit
STETSON UNIVERSITY INC
STETSON UNIVERSITY INC (Florida) receives grants from 196 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,897,962 to it, the largest being EM Lynn Foundation ($3,728,000). 107 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $264M
- Funders on record
- 196
- Grants received
- $33M
- Net assets
- $516M
What Stetson University Inc does
Mission
Our mission at stetson university is to provide an excellent education in a creative community where learning and values meet, and to foster in students the qualities of mind and heart that will prepare them to reach their full potential as informed citizens of local communities and the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Educational: the university provides high quality educational services to students on three different campuses, serving more than 2,450 undergraduate students and approximately 1,630 graduate and post-baccalaureate students. The university is committed to its strong liberal arts heritage, offering over 80 major and minor programs in various fields of study. The university offers numerous graduate degree programs, along with juris doctor, master of laws, and master of jurisprudence degrees. The undergraduate student to faculty ratio is 10:1; the deland campus has 218 full-time faculty members, 90 percent of whom hold a ph.d. Or other terminal degrees. The college of law campus has 48 full-time professors and is supplemented by over 67 experienced practitioners in specialized areas. Grants and scholarships were provided to students based on talent, academic, and athletic achievement and financial need.
$230,652,259 spentof which $115,655,984 as grants$192,400,472 earned by the program90% of program spendingAuxiliary enterprises: the university auxiliary enterprises are for the convenience and benefit of its students, faculty, and staff. These services include a wide variety of student housing options, including dormitories and apartment-style accommodations. In addition, the university offers full array of dining services, student convenience store, and campus bookstore.
$26,876,008 spent$25,902,107 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $257,528,267.
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 $589M to $684M (+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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 2% · 2021 3% · 2022 4% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
10% of STETSON UNIVERSITY INC’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. 3 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
Steven Alexander
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 43 funders to 85 funders, grant income rose $1.7M → $3.3M.
33 of 196 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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: $787k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Charles a Dana Law Center Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money STETSON UNIVERSITY INC raised.
From the IRS filings of STETSON UNIVERSITY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 196 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
STETSON UNIVERSITY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
43% 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 STETSON UNIVERSITY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 27% · 2019 21% · 2020 13% · 2021 36% · 2022 12% · 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
57% of STETSON UNIVERSITY INC'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 STETSON UNIVERSITY INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 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
STETSON UNIVERSITY INC's funding base is broadening — from 43 funders to 85 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding STETSON UNIVERSITY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $32.3M on record — $26.7M federal, $5.6M state.
- Department of Education$18.1M
- National Science Foundation$5.1M
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.2M
- Department of Justice$1.2M
- FL$5.6M
- NJ$58k
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 STETSON UNIVERSITY INC
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Gsh Investments LLC · disregarded
- The Charles a Dana Law Center Foundation · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for STETSON UNIVERSITY INC: 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 STETSON UNIVERSITY INC?
- STETSON UNIVERSITY INC (Florida) receives grants from 196 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,897,962 to it, the largest being EM Lynn Foundation ($3,728,000). 107 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STETSON UNIVERSITY INC have?
- IRS filings report 196 organizations giving $32,897,962 in grants to STETSON UNIVERSITY INC, 107 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STETSON UNIVERSITY INC?
- EM Lynn Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $3,728,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STETSON UNIVERSITY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 196 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