Pacific Lutheran University Inc: $158.6M Revenue, $161.9M Expenses

Pacific Lutheran University Inc grades a B on the NonprofitTruth efficiency rubric. 74/100 on the composite — above the national median, with strong performance on some factors balanced by middling performance on others.

Annual revenue at Pacific Lutheran University Inc runs $158.6M (2023), placing it among the larger U.S. nonprofits in the IRS Form 990 dataset. On the reserves factor, Pacific Lutheran University Inc 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 is essentially flat — Pacific Lutheran University Inc'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: Pacific Lutheran University Inc reports $1.5M in total compensation for current officers and key employees (Form 990 Part IX, line 5) against $158.6M in revenue. The ratio is well within the bands third-party charity raters consider reasonable at this scale. In the Education category, Pacific Lutheran University Inc 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.