New York · Nonprofit
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER (New York) receives grants from 791 organizations whose IRS filings report $420,262,729 to it, the largest being FINGER LAKES PERFORMING PROVIDER SYSTEM INC ($90,642,744). 522 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.4B
- Funders on record
- 791
- Grants received
- $420M
- Net assets
- $5.2B
What University of Rochester does
Mission
The provision of higher education in the liberal arts and sciences, medicine and dentistry, nursing and music; research; and charitable patient care services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Educational activities - the university is comprised of six schools offering programs from undergraduate to post-doctoral degrees. These are the school of arts and sciences, the hajim school of engineering, the warner school of education and human development, eastman school of music, simon graduate school of business administration, school of nursing, and school of medicine and dentistry. There are also a number of important centers of academic excellence, for example, the institute of optics, the laboratory for laser energetics, the wilmot cancer center, and the flaum eye institute. The full-time faculty of the school of medicine and dentistry provide clinical services as part of the academic medical program; this activity occurs 100 percent within the medical school and is internally organized and supervised as urmfg or University of Rochester medical faculty group. There are over 1,000 full-time tenured faculty members and 11,211 undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in the university. The university has always placed financial aid for its students among its highest priorities. Scholarships cover a portion of the cost of attending the University of Rochester. The…
$1,201,091,333 spentof which $294,756,967 as grants$1,333,805,478 earned by the program20% of program spendingResearch activities: the university performs research, training, and other services under grants, contracts, and similar agreements with sponsoring organizations, primarily departments and agencies of the united states government. During the 2024-2025 fiscal year, there were 5,897 grants and contracts in effect that totaled $405,546,489 in revenue.rochester researchers are scientists and scholars, inventors and conservators, artists and analysts. They know many of the best breakthroughs in knowledge and creativity occur by crossing boundaries. Many of the university's research environments are designed to facilitate collaboration and exploration across disciplines. Research at the University of Rochester occurs in 60 research centers and institutes across the university, including: - the laboratory for laser energetics (lle) - the laser lab is the largest university-based department of energy research program in the nation and is home to the most powerful laser systems found at any academic institution in the world. At the lab, researchers from all over the world probe the extremes of temperature and pressure in laboratory-scale experiments. - the institute of optics - home to the…
$417,213,741 spent$118,600,372 earned by the program7% of program spendingServices of hospital and clinics- the University of Rochester (the "university") provides health care services to the greater rochester and finger lakes area through strong memorial hospital, strong home care group, the various entities included in strong partners health system, inc. (sphs), f.f. Thompson health system, inc., finger lakes health system, livingston health care system, inc., the memorial hospital of william f. And gertrude f. Jones, inc. And st. James hospital. To support the teaching and research missions of its school of medicine and dentistry and its school of nursing, the University of Rochester operates strong memorial hospital, a tertiary care teaching hospital, which includes the golisano children's hospital. Strong memorial hospital, golisano children's hospital, and the University of Rochester medical faculty group operate as unincorporated divisions of the University of Rochester. Strong memorial hospital provides health care services through its inpatient, outpatient and emergency facilities. The medical staff of the hospital is the faculty of the school of medicine and dentistry. The academic department chairs also function as the department heads of the…
$4,349,650,159 spent$4,090,069,722 earned by the program71% of program spendingAuxiliary enterprises- the university operates either directly or throughthird party contractors food services which served 5,669 undergraduates2,369,642 meals in five dining services. The university has 777 unitsused for student housing.
$152,267,929 spent$127,270,002 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,120,223,162.
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 $6.1B to $7.9B (+28%).
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 8% · 2018 8% · 2019 8% · 2020 10% · 2021 9% · 2022 7% · 2023 7% · 2024 6% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
8% of UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER’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
Richard B Handler
Trustee (chair)
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 221 funders to 340 funders, grant income rose $35M → $50M.
66 of 791 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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: $42M from 59 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center); $33M from 2 payers (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Eastman Dental Center Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER raised.
From the IRS filings of UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 791 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 ROCHESTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 14 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 14 funders to its left
72% 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 ROCHESTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 36% · 2019 31% · 2020 27% · 2021 32% · 2022 38% · 2023 10% — 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
48% of UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
57% of UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $106M arriving through sponsors registered in 25 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 ROCHESTER has grown faster than half 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 ROCHESTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.3B on record — $3.3B federal, $93k state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.9B
- Department of Energy$944.4M
- National Science Foundation$224.9M
- Department of Defense$143.2M
- Department of Education$48.4M
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$14.1M
- NJ$52k
- MA$37k
- VT$3k
- DE$745
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 ROCHESTER
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 70 related entities
- Meliora Student Housing LLC · disregarded
- Meliora Development Company LLC · disregarded
- Meliora Risk Solutions LLC · disregarded
- Highland Hospital of Rochester Inc · exempt
- The Highland Foundation Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: 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 ROCHESTER?
- UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER (New York) receives grants from 791 organizations whose IRS filings report $420,262,729 to it, the largest being FINGER LAKES PERFORMING PROVIDER SYSTEM INC ($90,642,744). 522 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER have?
- IRS filings report 791 organizations giving $420,262,729 in grants to UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER, 522 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER?
- FINGER LAKES PERFORMING PROVIDER SYSTEM INC is the largest funder on record, with $90,642,744 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 Rochester →
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 791 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