Illinois · Nonprofit
UNIVERSITY OF ST FRANCIS
UNIVERSITY OF ST FRANCIS (Illinois) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,678,136 to it, the largest being VIRGINIA J SAXON SCHOLARSHIP FUND ($771,454). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $67M
- Funders on record
- 47
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $51M
What University of St Francis does
Mission
As a catholic university rooted in the liberal arts, we are a welcoming community of learners challenged by franciscan values and charism, engaged in a continuous pursuit of knowledge, faith, wisdom, and justice, and ever mindful of a tradition that emphasizes reverence for creation, compassion and peacemaking. We strive for academic excellence in all programs, preparing women and men to contribute to the world through service and leadership.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Instruction and financial aidthe catholic, franciscan university offers 47 baccalaureate programs, including 4 adult undergraduate majors, 15 master's level programs (onsite and online classes), 8 sub-baccalaureate certificate programs, 12 post baccalaureate certificate programs, 4 post-masters certificate programs and 2 doctoral programs. In fiscal year 2025, the university served 1,338 undergraduate and 1,686 post-baccalaureate students. In addition, 98% of traditional undergraduate students and 100% of incoming freshmen received some form of financial aid.
$40,836,707 spentof which $24,843,459 as grants$54,738,235 earned by the program68% of program spendingStudent servicesstudent services include admissions, welcome center, financial aid administration, registrar, athletics, student engagement & leadership, orientation, graduation, career success center, health & wellness and personal counseling services, support for students with disabilities, campus culture, and university ministry. In fiscal year 2025, 425 student athletes participated in baseball, basketball, bowling, cross country, football, dance, golf, soccer, softball, tennis, track & field, and volleyball.
$8,951,431 spent15% of program spendingAcademic supportlibrary resources and services, academic resource center, institutional research, student computer labs, and academic technology, and deans of each of the university's four colleges are included in this category. The library's collection included 22,986 books and other paper documents, 4,910 serials, and 3,277 audiovisual materials. Consistent with the industry, the university's resources continue to move away from printed materials and toward electronic resources and subscriptions. The resources at the library assist students in all methods of research.
$6,542,648 spent11% of program spendingAuxiliary enterprises residence education, student housing, food services, the bookstore, and conferencing services are included in auxiliary services. 295 students filled student housing to 66% capacity in 2025. The university is focused on safety, learning and community building among the students including a safety awareness week and a mental health awareness week within the first week of the semester. Food services are provided to students, faculty and staff 16 hours per day.
$3,807,085 spent$3,903,941 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $60,137,871.
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.
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 $99M to $90M (−9%).
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 1% · 2021 6% · 2022 10% · 2023 6% · 2024 4% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Joseph Mallof
Chairperson of the board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $105k → $340k.
9 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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: $359k from 8 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Associated Colleges of Illinois Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money UNIVERSITY OF ST FRANCIS raised.
From the IRS filings of UNIVERSITY OF ST FRANCIS’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 ST FRANCIS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 95% · 2019 65% · 2020 32% · 2021 37% · 2022 31% · 2023 41% — broadly stable.
“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
35% of UNIVERSITY OF ST FRANCIS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
87% of UNIVERSITY OF ST FRANCIS's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $296k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Government funding UNIVERSITY OF ST FRANCIS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $17.3M on record.
- Department of Education$11.7M
- Department of Health and Human Services$3.2M
- National Science Foundation$1.6M
- Small Business Administration$500k
- Department of Justice$289k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$35k
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 ST FRANCIS
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Sisters of St Francis of Mary Immaculate · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ST FRANCIS?
- UNIVERSITY OF ST FRANCIS (Illinois) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,678,136 to it, the largest being VIRGINIA J SAXON SCHOLARSHIP FUND ($771,454). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNIVERSITY OF ST FRANCIS have?
- IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $2,678,136 in grants to UNIVERSITY OF ST FRANCIS, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNIVERSITY OF ST FRANCIS?
- VIRGINIA J SAXON SCHOLARSHIP FUND is the largest funder on record, with $771,454 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNIVERSITY OF ST FRANCIS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing