University Of Detroit Mercy: $176.1M Revenue, $171.5M Expenses

University Of Detroit Mercy grades a B on the NonprofitTruth efficiency rubric. 70/100 on the composite — above the national median, with strong performance on some factors balanced by middling performance on others.

Annual revenue at University Of Detroit Mercy runs $176.1M (2023), placing it among the larger U.S. nonprofits in the IRS Form 990 dataset. On the reserves factor, University Of Detroit Mercy 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 has been roughly stable over the five-year filing window. The pattern is normal for established organizations operating in a mature program area. Compensation for current officers and key employees runs $4.6M against $176.1M in revenue — within the band third-party charity raters typically consider reasonable for an organization of this size and complexity. This is an aggregate across all listed officers, not a single executive's salary. In the Education category, University Of Detroit Mercy 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.