Butler University: $290.6M Revenue, $315.8M Expenses

The composite efficiency score of 64/100 puts Butler University at C — neither standout nor failing. Some factors run above the median (often reserves) while others run below (often revenue stability or officer-comp ratio).

Annual revenue at Butler University runs $290.6M (2023), placing it among the larger U.S. nonprofits in the IRS Form 990 dataset. Operating reserves at Butler University are adequate: the balance sheet covers a reasonable share of annual expenses, though not a deep multi-year cushion.

Five-year revenue is essentially flat — Butler 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: Butler University reports $1.5M in total compensation for current officers and key employees (Form 990 Part IX, line 5) against $290.6M in revenue. The ratio is well within the bands third-party charity raters consider reasonable at this scale. In the Education category, Butler 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.