Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
WIDENER UNIVERSITY
WIDENER UNIVERSITY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 136 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,518,853 to it, the largest being PENNSYLVANIA INTEREST ON LAWYER TRUST ACCOUNTS BOARD ($1,244,600). 77 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $295M
- Funders on record
- 136
- Grants received
- $7.5M
- Net assets
- $249M
What Widener University does
Mission
Empowering our community of learners to discover and create better futures.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Instructional/grants - expenses incurred with the academic instruction of our student body as well as grants to students. The university comprises of eight schools and colleges that offer liberal arts and sciences, professional, and preprofessional curricula. A metropolitan teaching institution, the university is a three-campus university offering more than 100 programs of study leading to associates, bachelors, masters, or doctoral degrees. In the fall semester of 2024, the university had enrolled 5,713 students comprised of 2,975 undergraduate, 1,602 graduate, and 1,136 school of law students.
$193,643,501 spentof which $122,540,426 as grants$243,628,113 earned by the program75% of program spendingStudent services - expenses incurred for programs that service widener's student body, such as athletics, student organizations, career placement, student health, and student counseling. In addition, this includes departments that support student admissions, financial aid, the bursar, and registrar.
$24,922,056 spent$1,699,489 earned by the program10% of program spendingAuxiliary services - expenses incurred primarily for housing and feeding students
$23,018,848 spent$26,655,943 earned by the program9% of program spendingAcademic support - expenses incurred to support the library and academic administration, including provost, deans, and faculty development.
$15,251,187 spent6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $256,835,592.
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 2021 to 2022, from $401M to $432M (+8%).
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 3% · 2022 5% · 2023 3% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
5% of WIDENER UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Paul S Beideman
Chair of the board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 33 funders to 40 funders, grant income rose $320k → $880k.
19 of 136 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 WIDENER UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 136 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
WIDENER UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
61% 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 WIDENER UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 24% · 2019 24% · 2020 13% · 2021 22% · 2022 21% · 2023 20% — 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 WIDENER UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
62% of WIDENER UNIVERSITY's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
WIDENER UNIVERSITY is better cushioned 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 WIDENER UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $27.4M on record — $26.4M federal, $1.0M state.
- Department of Education$15.3M
- Department of Health and Human Services$7.9M
- National Science Foundation$2.5M
- Department of Justice$399k
- Department of Defense$225k
- Environmental Protection Agency$90k
- DE$856k
- NJ$173k
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 WIDENER UNIVERSITY
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
58%
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 3 related entities
- The Neuropsychology Assessment Center · exempt
- Providence Enterprises Inc · corp_trust
- Pioneer Pub of Widener Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WIDENER UNIVERSITY: 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 WIDENER UNIVERSITY?
- WIDENER UNIVERSITY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 136 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,518,853 to it, the largest being PENNSYLVANIA INTEREST ON LAWYER TRUST ACCOUNTS BOARD ($1,244,600). 77 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WIDENER UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 136 organizations giving $7,518,853 in grants to WIDENER UNIVERSITY, 77 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WIDENER UNIVERSITY?
- PENNSYLVANIA INTEREST ON LAWYER TRUST ACCOUNTS BOARD is the largest funder on record, with $1,244,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WIDENER UNIVERSITY 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.
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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 136 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