California · Nonprofit
WOODBURY UNIVERSITY
WOODBURY UNIVERSITY (California) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $528,122 to it, the largest being ANGELO DONGHIA FOUNDATION INC ($150,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $47M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $528k
- Net assets
- $14M
What Woodbury University does
Mission
Woodbury University empowers people to do extraordinary things. We transform students into liberally educated professionals and socially responsible citizens by integrating liberal arts, design thinking, entrepreneurship, and civic engagement into all programs. We achieve academic excellence by creating external partnerships, implementing effective internal processes, and ensuring quality in all programs and services.successful woodbury graduates are ambassadors for the university. They are innovative leaders who help individuals and communities flourish. They are known for being strong communicators, ethical thinkers and creative problem-solvers with a deep commitment to sustainability and social justice. They are knowledgeable in their disciplines and eager for collaboration and continuous learning. They integrate professional skills with global citizenship, entrepreneurial energy, and intellectual curiosity. Woodbury graduates make a difference.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Woodbury University transforms students into innovative professionals who will contribute responsibly to the global community. We achieve academic excellence by focusing on purposeful student engagement, establishing external partnerships and ensuring that all our processes, services and environment enrich the student experience. In fy25, the university served 823 students across undergraduate and graduate programs, offering 35 majors.
$41,896,025 spentof which $19,551,211 as grants$41,996,015 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $41,896,025.
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 2023 to 2024, from $54M to $43M (−21%).
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 2% · 2020 7% · 2021 8% · 2022 17% · 2023 19% · 2024 11% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
4% of WOODBURY UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 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.
Chief executive
Barry Ryan
President and CEO (thru 06/24)
Board chair
Jamison J Ashby
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $32k → $142k.
4 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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: $5.1M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest University of Redlands). These are real filings, and they are not money WOODBURY UNIVERSITY raised.
From the IRS filings of WOODBURY UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
WOODBURY UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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 32% · 2018 33% · 2019 29% · 2020 63% · 2021 22% · 2022 39% · 2023 53% — 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
40% of WOODBURY UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 28% 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
59% of WOODBURY UNIVERSITY's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
WOODBURY UNIVERSITY's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding WOODBURY UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $14.4M on record.
- Department of Education$14.4M
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 WOODBURY 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 California
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 1 state
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- University of Redlands · exempt
- Presidio Graduate School · exempt
- Pooled Income Fund (1) · corp_trust
- Charitable Remainder Unitrusts (6) · corp_trust
- Charitable Remainder Trusts (2) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WOODBURY 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 WOODBURY UNIVERSITY?
- WOODBURY UNIVERSITY (California) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $528,122 to it, the largest being ANGELO DONGHIA FOUNDATION INC ($150,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WOODBURY UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $528,122 in grants to WOODBURY UNIVERSITY, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WOODBURY UNIVERSITY?
- ANGELO DONGHIA FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WOODBURY UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 25 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