Michigan · Nonprofit
UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY
UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY (Michigan) receives grants from 154 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,919,760 to it, the largest being THE KRESGE FOUNDATION ($5,359,675). 88 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $191M
- Funders on record
- 154
- Grants received
- $29M
- Net assets
- $238M
What University of Detroit Mercy does
Mission
Detroit Mercy, a Catholic university in the Jesuit and Mercy traditions, exists to provide excellent student-centered undergraduate and graduate education in an urban context. A UDM education seeks to integrate the intellectual, spiritual, ethical and social development of students.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Delivered educational programs to approximately 2,455 undergraduate and 931 graduate students in five colleges and 1,211 professional students in the Dental and Law schools; provided research activities and public service programs and academic support services including three libraries, IT communications, computing and web services, scientific and medical labs, and dental clinics.
$112,448,655 spentof which $12,468,641 as grants$148,770,079 earned by the program82% of program spendingProvided higher education auxiliary services including housing and food services to approximately 559 resident students and food services to commuter students, faculty, and staff; and an NCAA division I athletic program that is known for high academic achievement and excellent graduation rates.
$14,140,191 spent$9,138,085 earned by the program10% of program spendingProvided students services and campus activities that aid students in the successful accomplishment of a college degree, including registration, advising, financial aid, co-op education and student life activities such as sports, student clubs, speaker programs and social events.
$11,121,296 spent8% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $137,710,142.
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 2024 to 2025, from $319M to $367M (+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 7% · 2018 8% · 2019 8% · 2020 9% · 2021 10% · 2022 10% · 2023 8% · 2024 8% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
16% of UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY’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. 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 36 funders to 59 funders, grant income rose $2.7M → $2.8M.
25 of 154 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 154 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 DETROIT MERCY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
50% 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 DETROIT MERCY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 37% · 2019 20% · 2020 19% · 2021 13% · 2022 20% · 2023 15% — 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
41% of UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
69% of UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY holds deeper cash reserves 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 UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $72.6M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$38.5M
- Department of Education$22.6M
- Department of Defense$4.6M
- Department of Energy$3.8M
- National Science Foundation$2.6M
- National Endowment for the Humanities$369k
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 DETROIT MERCY
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Dexter Holdings LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY?
- UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY (Michigan) receives grants from 154 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,919,760 to it, the largest being THE KRESGE FOUNDATION ($5,359,675). 88 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY have?
- IRS filings report 154 organizations giving $28,919,760 in grants to UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY, 88 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY?
- THE KRESGE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,359,675 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 154 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