Delaware · Nonprofit
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE (Delaware) receives grants from 595 organizations whose IRS filings report $208,877,201 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($16,002,682). 385 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7B
- Funders on record
- 595
- Grants received
- $209M
- Net assets
- $3.3B
What University of Delaware does
Mission
The University of Delaware is a major research university dedicated to cultivating learning, advancing knowledge, and fostering the exchange of ideas through teaching, research and public service.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Instruction and departmental research are provided to over 24,000 students including approximately 21,900 full time and 2,500 part-time students at 4 campuses throughout the state of delaware.
$564,195,198 spent$721,423,404 earned by the program38% of program spendingSponsored research is advancing, leading-edge research that solves mysteries, tackles problems, and invents new technologies - all aimed at enhancing our quality of life.
$240,201,497 spent$309,280,397 earned by the program16% of program spendingAuxiliary services manages many of the University of Delaware's support units providing a wide range of products and services for students, faculty, and staff, including the university's residence halls, bookstore, conference services, dining services, green reservations (areas outside of residence halls and campus buildings), residence hall laundry, university parking, bus service, and printing.
$125,488,873 spent$149,360,036 earned by the program9% of program spendingOther program expenses
$539,865,532 spentof which $236,487,045 as grants$115,945,881 earned by the program37% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,469,751,100.
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.
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 $4.0B to $4.6B (+15%).
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 10% · 2018 9% · 2019 9% · 2020 10% · 2021 9% · 2022 9% · 2023 12% · 2024 11% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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.
Board chair
Terri L Kelly
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 139 funders to 249 funders, grant income rose $14M → $27M.
58 of 595 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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: $115M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Unidel Foundation Inc); $775k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Friends of the University of Delaware Library Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE raised.
From the IRS filings of UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 595 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
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 8% of grant income, and it takes 11 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 11 funders to its left
66% 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 UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 11% · 2018 13% · 2019 15% · 2020 12% · 2021 35% · 2022 9% · 2023 10% — 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
44% of UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE draws 73% of its grant income from funders outside Delaware, across 38 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $42M arriving through sponsors registered in 25 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.
Government funding UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.0B on record — $1.9B federal, $1.1B state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$491.6M
- National Science Foundation$376.0M
- Department of Commerce$362.6M
- Department of Defense$201.0M
- Department of Energy$112.8M
- Department of Education$105.3M
- DE$1.1B
- NJ$365k
- OK$144k
- OR$41k
- MA$3k
- FL$63
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 UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
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 Delaware
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 13 states
Part of a family of 14 related entities
- Blue Hen Hotel LLC · disregarded
- 1743 Holdings LLC · disregarded
- Ud Health LLC · disregarded
- University of Delaware Alumni Assoc Inc · exempt
- University of Delaware Research Foundation · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: 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 UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE?
- UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE (Delaware) receives grants from 595 organizations whose IRS filings report $208,877,201 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($16,002,682). 385 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE have?
- IRS filings report 595 organizations giving $208,877,201 in grants to UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE, 385 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $16,002,682 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. 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 595 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