Texas · Nonprofit
Trinity University
Trinity University (Texas) receives grants from 245 organizations whose IRS filings report $208,034,541 to it, the largest being J A Leta M Chapman TR 486002AC2 ($79,440,822). 162 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $351M
- Funders on record
- 245
- Grants received
- $208M
- Net assets
- $2.2B
What Trinity University does
Mission
Trinity University is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Trinity University, one of the nation's top private undergraduate institutions, is known for its superior academic quality, personalized attention with outstanding faculty, exceptional resources, real-world preparation, and vibrant campus life. Trinity is a community that encourages students to discover, grow, and become passionate, productive individuals. The University's principal focus is on undergraduate education, but it also offers selected graduate programs in professional fields. In addition, the University provides various research and other sponsored projects as well as public service programs of continuing education, intellectual enlightenment, and cultural enrichment. The University attracts talented and highly motivated students to its predominantly full-time, residential student body. Enrollment was 2,595 annual students for FY25 which represents the full-time equivalent of undergraduate and graduate students; 4.8% of these students come from outside the United States and 78% are from within Texas. The University received 12,506 first-year undergraduate applications for fall 2025 with an acceptance rate of 26%. The University's yield was 20%, generating enrollment of…
$233,363,110 spentof which $82,636,431 as grants$182,817,147 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $233,363,110.
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 $1.7B to $2.1B (+25%).
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 2% · 2019 3% · 2020 3% · 2021 3% · 2022 3% · 2023 3% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
11% of Trinity 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 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 55 funders to 106 funders, grant income rose $3.5M → $29M.
36 of 245 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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: $7.9M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Gretchen C Northrup Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Trinity University raised.
From the IRS filings of Trinity University’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 245 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
Trinity University leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 56%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
67% 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 Trinity University.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 19% · 2019 59% · 2020 45% · 2021 44% · 2022 47% · 2023 48% — 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
54% of Trinity University's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
Trinity University draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 36 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20M 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
Trinity University runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 684 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding Trinity University receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $33.2M on record.
- Department of Education$14.5M
- Department of Health and Human Services$7.3M
- National Science Foundation$5.1M
- Department of Defense$4.9M
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$446k
- Department of Agriculture$400k
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 Trinity 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 Texas
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
35%
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 8 related entities
- Gretchen Northrup Foundation · exempt
- Trinity Tigers Investment Corporation · exempt
- Crut - (1) · corp_trust
- Trinity Pooled Income Fund · corp_trust
- Charitable Trust · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Trinity 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 Trinity University?
- Trinity University (Texas) receives grants from 245 organizations whose IRS filings report $208,034,541 to it, the largest being J A Leta M Chapman TR 486002AC2 ($79,440,822). 162 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Trinity University have?
- IRS filings report 245 organizations giving $208,034,541 in grants to Trinity University, 162 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Trinity University?
- J A Leta M Chapman TR 486002AC2 is the largest funder on record, with $79,440,822 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Trinity University find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 245 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