Alabama · Nonprofit
UNIVERSITY OF MOBILE
UNIVERSITY OF MOBILE (Alabama) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,743,575 to it, the largest being Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc ($872,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $51M
- Funders on record
- 47
- Grants received
- $4.7M
- Net assets
- $42M
What University of Mobile does
Mission
To provide educational programs of the highest quality emphasizing andmaintaining a tradition of excellence in undergraduate studies as wellas in professional, graduate, doctoral, continuing education, andspecialized degree granting programs. All educational programs are quality with its primary emphasis to establish and maintain a tradition of excellence in undergraduate, professional, graduate, doctoral, continuing education, and specialized degree-granting programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The university's motto, "know and be known," describes an environment in which students are know by their professors, and and professors know their calling goes beyond teaching subject matter in a particular discipline. The University of Mobile, a christian university in alabama is frequently rated by niche.com, collegecensus, and u.s. News and world report. With a 14:1 student/faculty ratio in 2024-25, more than 100 full and part-time christian faculty instructed and nurtured more than 2,000 students in 75 different areas of study in onlineand on-campus classes, and the university awarded 20 associate degree, 239 bachelor's degrees, 78 master's degrees and 17 doctoral degrees in 2024-25. The University of Mobile integrates learning, faith and leadership through strong academic programs, nationally competitive athletics, vibrant campus life, opportunities for travel and service, small classes and personal attention from faculty and staff. With more than 600 residential students in 2024-25, over 30 % of the student body lives in on-campus residential housing.
$38,139,604 spentof which $18,030,300 as grants$39,738,828 earned by the program88% of program spendingThe university's goal to produce graduates who are excellent in their field of study, vibrant in their faith, and capable of using their influence in effective ways to change the world. Students have intentional opportunities and examples of how to use their knowledge and talents to effect change. Students learn and practice leadership through more than 170 events per year, 12 honor societies 13 academic clubs, intramural sports and intercollegiate teams in 21 sports.
$4,098,985 spent$227,136 earned by the program9% of program spendingThe university provided opportunities for students to interact with the economic, cultural, political and human services sectors of the local and/or international community and encouraged development of a personal commitment to community services in the appropriate region. The university hosted a summer youth camp for more than 2,800 youth and counselors stressing personal growth and community service.
$1,001,694 spent$724,283 earned by the program2% of program spendingThe university furnishes a spirit shop from which students are able to purchase books and supplies necessary for their studies. The university provides dining facilities for convenience of faculty, staff and students. The university maintains parking areas for students and staff.
$53,643 spent$214,196 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $43,293,926.
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 $70M to $74M (+6%).
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 0% · 2019 1% · 2020 8% · 2021 11% · 2022 6% · 2023 9% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
14% of UNIVERSITY OF MOBILE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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 14 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $150k → $916k.
2 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 MOBILE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 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 MOBILE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
28% 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 MOBILE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 38% · 2019 21% · 2020 40% · 2021 24% · 2022 27% · 2023 20% — 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
64% of UNIVERSITY OF MOBILE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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
68% of UNIVERSITY OF MOBILE's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 MOBILE's funding base is broadening — from 14 funders to 27 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding UNIVERSITY OF MOBILE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.2M on record.
- Department of Education$7.5M
- Department of Health and Human Services$636k
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 MOBILE
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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- University of Mobile Inc · disregarded
- Alabama Baptist State Convention · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNIVERSITY OF MOBILE: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MOBILE?
- UNIVERSITY OF MOBILE (Alabama) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,743,575 to it, the largest being Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc ($872,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNIVERSITY OF MOBILE have?
- IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $4,743,575 in grants to UNIVERSITY OF MOBILE, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNIVERSITY OF MOBILE?
- Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $872,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNIVERSITY OF MOBILE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
Play a game about who funds University of Mobile →
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 47 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing