Lebanese American University: $236.1M Revenue, $229.7M Expenses

Lebanese American University pulls a D on the efficiency rubric. The composite of 47/100 reflects below-median performance on the bundle of factors — typically driven by thin operating reserves, volatile revenue, or outsized officer compensation relative to organizational size.

Lebanese American University is a large nonprofit by U.S. standards: $236.1M in 2023 revenue against $229.7M in expenses. Organizations in this revenue bracket usually run multiple programs with permanent staff and a meaningful endowment or reserve. Reserves are the limiting factor: Lebanese American University carries relatively few months of operating expenses on its balance sheet, which can leave an organization exposed if a major funding source pauses.

Five-year revenue is essentially flat — Lebanese American 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 on the higher side of the band typical for nonprofits this size: $10.4M in total current-officer compensation against $236.1M in revenue. Not necessarily inappropriate — large healthcare systems and university systems often pay competitively with for-profit equivalents — but worth reading in context. In the Education category, Lebanese American 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.