Ohio · Nonprofit
XAVIER UNIVERSITY
XAVIER UNIVERSITY (Ohio) receives grants from 277 organizations whose IRS filings report $95,443,738 to it, the largest being JOHN J & MARY R SCHIFF FOUNDATION ($32,540,000). 174 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $347M
- Funders on record
- 277
- Grants received
- $95M
- Net assets
- $604M
What Xavier University does
Mission
Xavier is a jesuit catholic university rooted in the liberal arts tradition. Our mission is to educate each student intellectually, morally, and spiritually. We create learning opportunities through rigorous academic and professional programs integrated with co-curricular engagement. In an environment of open and free inquiry, we prepare students for a world that is increasingly diverse, complex and interdependent. Driven by our commitment to the common good and to the education of the whole person, the xavier community challenges and supports students as they cultivate lives of reflection, compassion and informed action.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Xavier University is a private, coeducational university that educates students in the jesuit catholic tradition. Xavier's four colleges offer 80 undergraduate majors, 90 minors and 40 graduate programs to 5,501 students, including 4,239 undergraduates. Xavier has been recognized as one of the top 10 universities in the midwest for the last 20 years by several independent reviews. A 11:1 student to faculty ratio encourages interactive and supportive learning. Xavier students have high graduation and career placement rates.
$157,609,828 spentof which $114,532,172 as grants$227,390,814 earned by the program50% of program spendingXavier University offers student services which contribute to the student's emotional and physical well being as well as intellectual, cultural and social development outside the context of formal instruction. These services include student government, residential life, student involvement, career services center, office of multicultural affairs, intercollegiate affairs, recreational sports, retail services, dining services, campus police, and others.
$133,563,226 spentof which $4,773,278 as grants$51,623,694 earned by the program42% of program spendingAcademic support includes the operation of the library, the conaton learning commons and division of information resources. In addition to the resources in the library collections, the facilities provide study, lounge, conference, instruction space, technologies, and services to help students master essential skills and gain a competitive advantage in their respective disciplines and careers.
$25,440,614 spentof which $77,627 as grants8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $316,613,668.
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 2024 to 2025, from $797M to $948M (+19%).
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 4% · 2022 1% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
10% of XAVIER UNIVERSITY’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. 0 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
Ralph S Michael Iii
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 77 funders to 115 funders, grant income rose $5.8M → $9.2M.
43 of 277 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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: $41M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Big East Conference Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money XAVIER UNIVERSITY raised.
From the IRS filings of XAVIER UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 277 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
XAVIER UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% 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
34% 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 XAVIER UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 35% · 2019 23% · 2020 24% · 2021 30% · 2022 26% · 2023 30% — 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
44% of XAVIER UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
75% of XAVIER UNIVERSITY's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $22M 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
XAVIER UNIVERSITY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 684 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding XAVIER UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $27.7M on record — $27.6M federal, $73k state.
- Department of Education$19.3M
- Department of Agriculture$4.1M
- Department of Health and Human Services$3.5M
- National Science Foundation$361k
- Department of Homeland Security$179k
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$150k
- FEDERAL$73k
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 XAVIER 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 8 states
Part of a family of 11 related entities
- Norwood Cafe LLC · disregarded
- 3759 Montgomery Road LLC · disregarded
- 4040 Beechwood LLC · disregarded
- Xavier Student Agencies · exempt
- A Blessing to One Another Inc · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for XAVIER 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 XAVIER UNIVERSITY?
- XAVIER UNIVERSITY (Ohio) receives grants from 277 organizations whose IRS filings report $95,443,738 to it, the largest being JOHN J & MARY R SCHIFF FOUNDATION ($32,540,000). 174 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does XAVIER UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 277 organizations giving $95,443,738 in grants to XAVIER UNIVERSITY, 174 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of XAVIER UNIVERSITY?
- JOHN J & MARY R SCHIFF FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $32,540,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like XAVIER UNIVERSITY 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.
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 277 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