Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
University of Scranton
University of Scranton (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 179 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,156,467 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($6,155,600). 106 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $294M
- Funders on record
- 179
- Grants received
- $17M
- Net assets
- $497M
What University of Scranton does
Mission
The University of Scranton is a catholic and jesuit university. It is a community dedicated to the freedom of inquiry and personal development fundamental to growth in wisdom and integrity of all who share its life. It offers degree programs at the undergraduate, graduate, pre-professional, and professional levels.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Higher education; student financial aid total institutional financial aid awards processed and disbursed by the financial aid office amounted to $110,556,400 to recipients. Additionally, the financial aid office processed $50,067,508 of financial aid in the form of loans to students. During the 2024-2025 academic year 3,606 unduplicated recipients received some form of financial aid. Loans provided to students and their parents include federal stafford, plus, and alternative loans. Higher education; instruction provides undergraduate and graduate instruction to 3,613 undergraduate and 1,111 graduate students. There are 70 undergraduate major programs, 34 graduate (masters) level programs, four doctoral programs, and over 100 continuing and professional education programs taught at the university.
$181,426,236 spentof which $110,556,400 as grants$211,680,263 earned by the program69% of program spendingHigher education; auxiliary services: provides dormitory and food services to approximately 2,163 resident students and food services to commuter students, faculty, staff and administration.
$36,620,015 spent$39,017,528 earned by the program14% of program spendingHigher education; student services and activities: expenditures or activities whose purpose is to contribute to students' emotional and physical well-being and development outside the classroom.
$22,588,045 spent9% of program spendingHigher education; academic support: includes expenses applicable to an integral part of the university's primary mission of instruction, research, or public service that are not charged directly to these programs.
$9,024,180 spent$852,764 earned by the program3% of program spendingHigher education; library: expenses incurred in operating an 80,000 sq. Ft. University library. The library contains over 633,035 volumes, 203,507 full-text online books, and a media collection holding 22,544 non-print items and 9,085 streaming media programs for student and general public study and research.
$7,171,432 spent3% of program spendingHigher education, public service: funds expended for activities established primarily to provide non-institutional services beneficial to individuals and groups external to the university. These expenses do not include over 175,000 community service hours provided by university students.
$2,472,633 spent1% of program spendingHigher education, research: includes the cost associated with grants/awards to produce research either funded internally or commissioned by an agency external to the university.
$1,915,299 spent$1,767,933 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $261,217,840.
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 $606M to $664M (+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 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 2% · 2021 3% · 2022 5% · 2023 2% · 2024 3% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
9% of University of Scranton’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. 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 42 funders to 63 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $1.9M.
31 of 179 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 Scranton’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 179 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 Scranton has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 36% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 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 Scranton.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 47% · 2019 38% · 2020 46% · 2021 36% · 2022 35% · 2023 28% — 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
38% of University of Scranton's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
66% of University of Scranton's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $5.8M that is directly attributable, 70% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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 Scranton's revenue grew 23% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding University of Scranton receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $42.0M on record — $41.4M federal, $594k state.
- Department of Commerce$16.5M
- Department of Education$15.2M
- National Science Foundation$6.7M
- Appalachian Regional Commission$1.4M
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$952k
- Department of Defense$349k
- NJ$509k
- CT$82k
- DE$2k
- VT$225
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 Scranton
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 6 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for University of Scranton: 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 Scranton?
- University of Scranton (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 179 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,156,467 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($6,155,600). 106 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does University of Scranton have?
- IRS filings report 179 organizations giving $17,156,467 in grants to University of Scranton, 106 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of University of Scranton?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $6,155,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like University of Scranton find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 179 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