Indiana · Nonprofit
UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE
UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE (Indiana) receives grants from 156 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,682,716 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($8,570,380). 106 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $124M
- Funders on record
- 156
- Grants received
- $31M
- Net assets
- $269M
What University of Evansville does
Mission
Mission statementthe University of Evansville empowers each student to think critically, act bravely, serve responsibly, and live meaningfully in a changing world.core valueswe promote academic and personal integrity to establish a culture of trust. Academic integrity begins with all students pledging to abide by our honor code, and extends to faculty, staff and administration adhering to our code of conduct. It culminates in an expectation of professionalism, transparency, and respect in all interactions. Personal integrity includes practicing informed, ethical decision-making, and respecting the ideas, rights, boundaries, and beliefs of others. Each member of our community is accountable and prepared to act as a responsible citizen of the world.we recognize the value of interdisciplinary teamwork, creative problem solving, global immersion, and learning experiences at home and abroad. We recognize the value of learning from failure. We have the freedom, flexibility, and motivation to
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Educational servicesstudents have acquired a broad foundation in the liberal arts and sciences through the general education program together with a depth of knowledge in one or more disciplines of their choice. Personal growth has been achieved through improved critical self-awareness and personal creativity. Students have mastered communication, organizational, and critical thinking skills and have gained an understanding of the global nature of our world and learned about other cultures. They have had the opportunity to participate in international studies programs. Students have learned the necessity of being actively involved in their communities through involvement in study, internships, and extracurricular activities. Students have developed skills and competencies to be productive team members and leaders. They have learned to understand the ethical significance of their personal and professional decisions. Students have also learned to seek and use available resources, including technology, to answer questions and solve problems. Students have been encouraged to become committed to lifelong learning.
$94,730,520 spentof which $45,818,649 as grants$78,589,001 earned by the program82% of program spendingAuxiliary enterpriseseducation is more than a classroom experience. Student participation and involvement in the residential community provides an exciting opportunity to enrich the college experience through the development of friendships and the exposure to new ideas, people, and cultures. Our residence halls, apartments and houses are more than just places to eat and sleep; living on campus is an experience in human relations for our students.the University of Evansville competes at the highest level of collegiate athletics: ncaa division I. Ue is a member of the missouri valley conference. The mission of the ue athletics department is to provide student-athletes with an opportunity to compete at the division I level while receiving a quality education consistent with the mission of the university. The athletics experience is an extension of the educational process whereby student-athletes acquire the skill, characteristics and self-confidence to enable them to reach their full potential, both in athletics and in life.
$21,310,489 spentof which $2,011,870 as grants$19,092,027 earned by the program18% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $116,041,009.
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 $314M to $360M (+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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 2% · 2021 3% · 2022 5% · 2023 2% · 2024 3% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
14% of UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE’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. 3 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 32 funders to 74 funders, grant income rose $745k → $3.1M.
22 of 156 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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: $22M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest William Lant Ridgway Charitable Tr Xxx-Xx-Xxxx). These are real filings, and they are not money UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE raised.
From the IRS filings of UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 156 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 EVANSVILLE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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
30% 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 EVANSVILLE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 18% · 2019 17% · 2020 30% · 2021 53% · 2022 25% · 2023 24% — 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
54% of UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
62% of UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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 EVANSVILLE's funding base is broadening — from 32 funders to 74 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $32.5M on record — $32.5M federal, $2k state.
- Department of Education$30.6M
- National Science Foundation$1.4M
- Department of Justice$399k
- Department of Health and Human Services$34k
- Department of Agriculture$33k
- Scholarships-Students$2k
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 EVANSVILLE
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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- College and University Sustainability Pr · exempt
- Charitable Remainder Trusts · corp_trust
- Employer-Contribution Veba Trust · corp_trust
- Employee-Contribution Veba Trust · corp_trust
- Evansville Academic Health Science and R · corp_trust
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE: 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 EVANSVILLE?
- UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE (Indiana) receives grants from 156 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,682,716 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($8,570,380). 106 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE have?
- IRS filings report 156 organizations giving $30,682,716 in grants to UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE, 106 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $8,570,380 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 156 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