Georgia · Nonprofit
THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY
THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY (Georgia) receives grants from 230 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,210,167 to it, the largest being Phil J & Alice S Sheridan Foundation Inc ($10,840,000). 138 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $485M
- Funders on record
- 230
- Grants received
- $64M
- Net assets
- $787M
What The Corporation of Mercer University does
Mission
Mercer university's mission is to teach, to learn, to create, to discover, to inspire, to empower, and to serve.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Instruction: the university has 12 colleges and schools. The university's programs include liberal arts, business, engineering, education, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, law, theology, music and health professions. These expenses are related to the direct instruction of higher education. The university serves of 9,000 degree seeking students in the 12 colleges and schools. The university bestowed over 2,600 degrees for the 2024-2025 school year. The peace corps is one of many instructional programs provided at mercer. Mercer currently ranks 4th nationally among peace corps prep certificate issuing institutions. The university's instruction also provides a focus on undergraduate research by providing students with hands-on experience that complements their education. The research can be included in their course based in lab work or faculty led research. Over 26 students made research presentations at the georgia undergraduate research conference. Another program that allows students with hands-on experience that complements their education is mercer's go baby go program. Since 2016 the program has provided kids with limited mobility by helping them gain more independence through the…
$129,946,027 spent$281,061,278 earned by the program30% of program spendingScholarships: these expenses are related to the support provided to the university's students based on donor stipulation, need, and merit. The university provides scholarship aid within 4 categories. Mercer based aid scholarships are based on academic credentials and the scholarships are renewable up to 4 years. Talent based aid scholarships are either athletic scholarships or music scholarships. Need based aid scholarships are based on economic need. Competitive aid scholarships are based on merit. Over 90% of the university's students received scholarships and discounts.
$108,087,450 spentof which $108,087,450 as grants25% of program spendingAuxiliary services: the university's auxiliary services facilitates the creation of community, extends the learning environment beyond the classroom, and enhances the quality of campus life through the delivery of quality goods and services including residence, dining services, clinic operations, as well as athletic and retail operations for over 9,000 students. Auxiliary services maintain the bear card system which provides for a variety of different dining options and easier access for students to pay for those options. Auxiliary services also provides mail and document services as well as cable access for the university's student residences.
$80,003,664 spent$53,385,428 earned by the program18% of program spendingResearch
$45,721,288 spentof which $353,023 as grants$47,334,014 earned by the program11% of program spendingAcademic support
$37,549,897 spent$3,188,554 earned by the program9% of program spendingStudent services
$32,718,846 spent8% of program spendingPublic services
$4,307,226 spent1% of program spendingInstitutional support
$-4,763,689 spent-1% of program spending
The 8 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $433,570,709.
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 $834M to $975M (+17%).
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 16% · 2018 16% · 2019 17% · 2020 20% · 2021 12% · 2022 12% · 2023 9% · 2024 8% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
14% of THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
Andrea Mitchell
Executive director
Board chair
Thomas P Bishop
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 59 funders to 90 funders, grant income rose $5.6M → $7.8M.
36 of 230 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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: $17M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Mercerw F George Sch Law Gww Co Tr). These are real filings, and they are not money THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY raised.
From the IRS filings of THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 230 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
THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
38% 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 THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 23% · 2019 18% · 2020 12% · 2021 62% · 2022 16% · 2023 13% — 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
40% of THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
61% of THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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
THE CORPORATION OF MERCER 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 THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $400.1M on record.
- Department of Defense$305.8M
- Department of Education$57.4M
- Department of Health and Human Services$32.9M
- National Science Foundation$2.8M
- Department of Agriculture$628k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$289k
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 THE CORPORATION OF MERCER 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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
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 19 related entities
- Mercer Medicine LLC · disregarded
- Abram Properties LLC · disregarded
- Preschool Proporties LLC · disregarded
- Dleslie LLC · disregarded
- Pio Nono Stablization LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY?
- THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY (Georgia) receives grants from 230 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,210,167 to it, the largest being Phil J & Alice S Sheridan Foundation Inc ($10,840,000). 138 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 230 organizations giving $64,210,167 in grants to THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY, 138 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY?
- Phil J & Alice S Sheridan Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $10,840,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 230 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