Ohio · Nonprofit
UNIVERSITY SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY SCHOOL (Ohio) receives grants from 128 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,044,009 to it, the largest being OBERNDORF FAMILY FOUNDATION ($15,200,000). 90 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $52M
- Funders on record
- 128
- Grants received
- $45M
- Net assets
- $231M
What University School does
Mission
The mission of University School is to develop promising and motivated boys into accomplished and independent young men who aspire to make a difference in the world. The school is rigorous. Our programs, led by challenging and supportive faculty, promote intellectual, physical, creative, and moral excellence. We believe these goals are best achieved in a diverse community where tradition is valued and where every boy is known and loved.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provide instruction to a regularly-enrolled student body (kindergarten through grade 12) for which a regular faculty and college-preparatory curriculum are maintained. There were 856full-time students enrolled at the school during the 2024-2025 school year.
$36,905,129 spentof which $9,532,631 as grants$32,358,555 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $36,905,129.
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 $154M to $197M (+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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 1% · 2022 3% · 2023 9% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
23% of UNIVERSITY SCHOOL’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
Matt Crawford
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 33 funders to 68 funders, grant income rose $742k → $12M.
29 of 128 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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: $29M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest University School Alumni Association). These are real filings, and they are not money UNIVERSITY SCHOOL raised.
From the IRS filings of UNIVERSITY SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 128 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 SCHOOL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
30% 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 SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 16% · 2018 22% · 2019 27% · 2020 27% · 2021 21% · 2022 24% · 2023 62% — 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
60% of UNIVERSITY SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
UNIVERSITY SCHOOL draws 69% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 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 SCHOOL runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like UNIVERSITY SCHOOL
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
43%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- University School Alumni Association · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNIVERSITY SCHOOL: 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 SCHOOL?
- UNIVERSITY SCHOOL (Ohio) receives grants from 128 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,044,009 to it, the largest being OBERNDORF FAMILY FOUNDATION ($15,200,000). 90 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNIVERSITY SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 128 organizations giving $45,044,009 in grants to UNIVERSITY SCHOOL, 90 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNIVERSITY SCHOOL?
- OBERNDORF FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNIVERSITY SCHOOL 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 128 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