Mercyhurst University: $149.3M Revenue, $151.5M Expenses

Mercyhurst University grades a B on the NonprofitTruth efficiency rubric. 73/100 on the composite — above the national median, with strong performance on some factors balanced by middling performance on others.

Annual revenue at Mercyhurst University runs $149.3M (2023), placing it among the larger U.S. nonprofits in the IRS Form 990 dataset. On the reserves factor, Mercyhurst 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).

Five-year revenue trend is mildly negative: a modest decline that could reflect grant-cycle timing, donor turnover, or program wind-down. Worth checking against the program-spending pattern to see whether the decline is structural. Officer compensation is modest relative to organizational size: Mercyhurst University reports $1.2M in total compensation for current officers and key employees (Form 990 Part IX, line 5) against $149.3M in revenue. The ratio is well within the bands third-party charity raters consider reasonable at this scale. In the Education category, Mercyhurst 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.