Ohio · Nonprofit
The University of Findlay
The University of Findlay (Ohio) receives grants from 123 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,213,340 to it, the largest being American Electric Power Foundation ($1,000,000). 67 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $152M
- Funders on record
- 123
- Grants received
- $7.2M
- Net assets
- $179M
What The University of Findlay does
Mission
The mission of The University of Findlay is to equip our students for meaningful lives and productive careers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
University of findlay is a comprehensive, private university that offers both undergraduate and graduate studies and is accredited by the higher learning commission. University of findlay offers more than 44 areas of undergraduate study and has a current undergraduate enrollment of nearly 2,001 students. Some of the more popular undergraduate programs include: business (299 students), education (143 students), health professions (381 students), pharmacy (128 students), liberal arts (201 students), natural science (796 students) and other (53 students). Many of the university's programs have a national reputation including pre-veterinary medicine and equestrian studies. University of findlay offers a variety of graduate programs including: masters of business (129 students), education (185 students), health professions such as physical therapy, occupational therapy, athletic training, physician assistant, and health informatics (378 students), pharmacy (144 students), liberal studies (25 students) and science (71 students). Total graduate students currently enrolled are more than 941.
$130,282,622 spentof which $61,424,863 as grants$116,878,250 earned by the program93% of program spendingUniversity of findlay has various auxiliary departments that provide services to their students, these auxiliary departments include dormitories for student living, dining halls, campus stores for students and the university's on-campus veterinary clinic.
$9,806,219 spent$14,645,951 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $140,088,841.
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 $214M to $233M (+8%).
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 4% · 2018 4% · 2019 4% · 2020 5% · 2021 6% · 2022 7% · 2023 4% · 2024 5% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
11% of The University of Findlay’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. 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
Chris Ostrander
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 29 funders to 48 funders, grant income rose $581k → $907k.
25 of 123 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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: $1.3M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Findlay-Hancock County Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money The University of Findlay raised.
From the IRS filings of The University of Findlay’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 123 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 University of Findlay has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% 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
53% 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 University of Findlay.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 25% · 2019 33% · 2020 21% · 2021 14% · 2022 27% · 2023 28% — broadly stable.
“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
39% of The University of Findlay's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
52% of The University of Findlay's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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 University of Findlay's funding base is broadening — from 29 funders to 48 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding The University of Findlay receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $12.9M on record.
- Department of Education$12.0M
- Department of Transportation$950k
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$5k
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 University of Findlay
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% 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 11 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Millsix Company · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The University of Findlay: 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 The University of Findlay?
- The University of Findlay (Ohio) receives grants from 123 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,213,340 to it, the largest being American Electric Power Foundation ($1,000,000). 67 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The University of Findlay have?
- IRS filings report 123 organizations giving $7,213,340 in grants to The University of Findlay, 67 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The University of Findlay?
- American Electric Power Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The University of Findlay find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 123 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