Gallaudet University: $239.4M Revenue, $245.3M Expenses

Gallaudet University grades a B on the NonprofitTruth efficiency rubric. 71/100 on the composite — above the national median, with strong performance on some factors balanced by middling performance on others.

Annual revenue at Gallaudet University runs $239.4M (2023), placing it among the larger U.S. nonprofits in the IRS Form 990 dataset. On the reserves factor, Gallaudet 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: Gallaudet University reports $4.3M in total compensation for current officers and key employees (Form 990 Part IX, line 5) against $239.4M in revenue. The ratio is well within the bands third-party charity raters consider reasonable at this scale. In the Education category, Gallaudet 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.