Desales University: $129.5M Revenue, $133.3M Expenses

The efficiency rubric puts Desales 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 Desales University runs $129.5M (2023), placing it among the larger U.S. nonprofits in the IRS Form 990 dataset. On the reserves factor, Desales University scores well — assets relative to annual spending sit in the range nonprofit-finance experts consider healthy (roughly three months to two years of operating expenses).

Revenue trend is mildly positive across the five-year filing window — modest growth, consistent with stable funding sources keeping pace with organizational costs. Officer compensation is modest relative to organizational size: Desales University reports $1.5M in total compensation for current officers and key employees (Form 990 Part IX, line 5) against $129.5M in revenue. The ratio is well within the bands third-party charity raters consider reasonable at this scale. In the Education category, Desales 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.