Connecticut · Nonprofit
University of New Haven
University of New Haven (Connecticut) receives grants from 187 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,629,515 to it, the largest being THE TOW FOUNDATION INC ($3,848,334). 93 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $392M
- Funders on record
- 187
- Grants received
- $20M
- Net assets
- $291M
What University of New Haven does
Mission
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a global society by providing the highest-quality education through experiential, collaborative, and discovery-based learning.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
University program: the University of New Haven is a private university, founded in 1920, with an 82 acre main campus and satellite campuses in orange, ct and prato, italy. The university has an undergraduate enrollment of 4,903 students with 55 percent residing in university housing. The university offers 73 undergraduate degrees and concentrations through its five colleges, in innovative fields such as sports management, nutrition & dietetics, forensic science, music and sound recording, engineering, computer science, fire science and criminal justice. The university also offers its students a study abroad program through a variety of unique offerings.
$261,288,102 spentof which $127,500,091 as grants$267,943,463 earned by the program75% of program spendingGraduate school: the graduate school has an enrollment of 4,326 students and offers 63 graduate degrees and concentrations. The graduate school helps students achieve a more meaningful career, the benefits of lifelong learning and a sense of responsibility as a citizen of the world.
$86,632,141 spentof which $17,492,819 as grants$88,838,778 earned by the program25% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $347,920,243.
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 $400M to $439M (+10%).
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 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 2% · 2020 2% · 2021 4% · 2022 6% · 2023 2% · 2024 2% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
7% of University of New Haven’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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
Michael Ambrose
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 43 funders to 51 funders, grant income fell $2.2M → $1.7M.
24 of 187 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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: $1.2M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Henry E & Nancy H Bartels Trust FBO the University of New Haven). These are real filings, and they are not money University of New Haven raised.
From the IRS filings of University of New Haven’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 187 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 New Haven has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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
32% 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 New Haven.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 17% · 2018 28% · 2019 28% · 2020 13% · 2021 37% · 2022 31% · 2023 25% — 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
32% of University of New Haven's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
59% of University of New Haven's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.4M 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 New Haven's revenue grew 42% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding University of New Haven receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $67.0M on record — $42.4M federal, $24.6M state.
- Department of Education$24.6M
- National Science Foundation$8.5M
- Department of Justice$6.9M
- Department of Health and Human Services$856k
- Department of Energy$594k
- Department of Defense$544k
- CT$24.3M
- NJ$290k
- DE$33k
- VT$10k
- MA$275
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 New Haven
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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Henry C Lee Inst of Forensic Science · exempt
- University of New Haven Dental Cent · exempt
- Charitable Remainder Unitrust (1) · corp_trust
- Charitable Trust (1) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for University of New Haven: 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 New Haven?
- University of New Haven (Connecticut) receives grants from 187 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,629,515 to it, the largest being THE TOW FOUNDATION INC ($3,848,334). 93 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does University of New Haven have?
- IRS filings report 187 organizations giving $19,629,515 in grants to University of New Haven, 93 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of University of New Haven?
- THE TOW FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,848,334 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like University of New Haven find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 New Haven →
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 187 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