Iowa · Nonprofit
UNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE
UNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE (Iowa) receives grants from 100 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,886,642 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($33,850,932). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $179M
- Funders on record
- 100
- Grants received
- $58M
- Net assets
- $448M
What University of Dubuque does
Mission
The University of Dubuque is a private university offering undergraduate, graduate, and theological seminary degrees, and other educational opportunities with the intention of educating and forming the whole person. The university is comprised of individuals from the region, our nation, and the world.as a community, the university practices its christian commitments by educating students, pursuing excellence in scholarship, challenging students to live lives of worth and purpose, and preparing students for service to the church and the world.therefore, the University of Dubuque is committed to:- a hospitable christian environment which respects other faith traditions;- relationships which encourage intellectual, spiritual, and moral development;- excellence in academic inquiry and professional preparation;- a diverse and equitable community where christian love is practiced;- stewardship of all god's human and natural resources;- zeal for life-long learning and service.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Instruction: 1,535 fte (undergraduate, graduate, and seminary students) fall 2023. Largest undergraduate majors include business administration, flight operations, and health, wellness, and recreation.
$53,318,662 spentof which $30,502,335 as grants$72,908,623 earned by the program67% of program spendingStudent services: includes admissions, athletics, and all areas of student life.
$13,206,195 spent$884,824 earned by the program17% of program spendingAuxiliary services: includes university bookstore, coffeehouse, and daycare facilities.
$7,742,144 spent$1,274,807 earned by the program10% of program spendingAcademic support
$5,161,131 spent$1,514,085 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $79,428,132.
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 $447M to $621M (+39%).
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 0% · 2018 1% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 7% · 2022 8% · 2023 1% · 2024 4% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
42% of UNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE’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.
Board chair
Douglas J Horstmann
Chairman/trustee
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 21 funders to 35 funders, grant income rose $293k → $3.3M.
19 of 100 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 88% 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 DUBUQUE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 100 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 DUBUQUE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
89% 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 DUBUQUE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 66% · 2019 68% · 2020 93% · 2021 46% · 2022 72% · 2023 53% — 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
40% of UNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
88% of UNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $7.1M that is directly attributable, 73% of it comes from funders outside Iowa, across 19 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $51M 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
UNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE 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 UNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $17.5M on record.
- Department of Education$16.7M
- National Science Foundation$748k
- Department of the Interior$16k
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 DUBUQUE
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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
59%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE: 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 DUBUQUE?
- UNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE (Iowa) receives grants from 100 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,886,642 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($33,850,932). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE have?
- IRS filings report 100 organizations giving $57,886,642 in grants to UNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE, 55 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $33,850,932 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 100 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