Adelphi University: $317.6M Revenue, $331.6M Expenses

The efficiency rubric puts Adelphi University at a B grade: a composite of 74/100 that lands above the national midpoint. The grade reflects solid financial reserves alongside reasonable officer compensation and steady revenue.

Annual revenue at Adelphi University runs $317.6M (2023), placing it among the larger U.S. nonprofits in the IRS Form 990 dataset. Financial health is a strength: Adelphi University carries a healthy operating-reserve cushion against $331.6M in annual expenses, the kind of balance-sheet stability that helps an organization weather funding gaps without cutting programs.

Five-year revenue is essentially flat — Adelphi University's funding base appears stable but not growing. For mature organizations this is often the steady state; for younger ones it can signal a funding plateau worth diagnosing. Officer compensation is modest relative to organizational size: Adelphi University reports $3.6M in total compensation for current officers and key employees (Form 990 Part IX, line 5) against $317.6M in revenue. The ratio is well within the bands third-party charity raters consider reasonable at this scale. In the Education category, Adelphi University sits alongside universities, K-12 systems, scholarship funds, and education-research organizations. Education-sector nonprofits often hold large endowments, which affects how the reserves-and-revenue figures should be read.