Ohio · Nonprofit
UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE
UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE (Ohio) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,158,367 to it, the largest being THE SCIOTO COUNTY AREA FOUNDATION ($1,594,798). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $43M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $37M
What University of Rio Grande does
Mission
The University of Rio Grande/ rio grande community college is america's unique private/public institution of higher education designed to provide learners the opportunity to attain a high-quality, high-value education. Our personalized, learner-centered environment promotes successful lives, careers, and responsible citizenship.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Instruction of undergraduate and graduate students - students can choose from over 55 academic programs at the certificate, associates, bachelors, and master's levels. There are over 2,300 students at rio grande. The largest degree programs are nursing, business, and education.
$10,951,743 spentof which $10,913,591 as grants$14,275,798 earned by the program34% of program spendingThe University of Rio Grande has had a contract with rio grande community college (rgcc) since 1974 to provide to rgcc and its students instruction in arts and sciences, technical studies, nursing and allied heath, and social and behavioral sciences; access to all nonresidential physical facilities of the university; activities available to the students such as athletics, clubs, and other approved activities, student personnel services; and appropriate office space for rgcc's administrative personnel.
$15,475,427 spent$15,475,427 earned by the program49% of program spendingAuxiliary activities including dormitories, dining facilities, & intercollegiate athletics are available to enhance the life on campus of students. Rio grande offers eleven sports including baseball, basketball and cross country to their student athletes.
$5,386,826 spent$3,463,629 earned by the program17% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $31,813,996.
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 $43M to $77M (+79%).
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 13% · 2021 19% · 2022 13% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
19% of UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE’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. 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.
Board chair
Robin Fowler
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $123k → $290k.
7 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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: $14k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Holzer Health System). These are real filings, and they are not money UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE raised.
From the IRS filings of UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 RIO GRANDE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 77% · 2019 36% · 2020 33% · 2021 38% · 2022 32% · 2023 26% — 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
58% of UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
91% of UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $492k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 RIO GRANDE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10.0M on record.
- Department of Education$10.0M
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 RIO GRANDE
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Friends of Rio LLC · disregarded
- Emerson and Evelyn Evans and Sons Fnd · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE: 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 RIO GRANDE?
- UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE (Ohio) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,158,367 to it, the largest being THE SCIOTO COUNTY AREA FOUNDATION ($1,594,798). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $3,158,367 in grants to UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE?
- THE SCIOTO COUNTY AREA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,594,798 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 27 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