Drexel University

Philadelphia, PA · EIN 231352630 · University or Technological Institute · IRS code B43

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Their finances

from their own IRS Form 990, fiscal year 2025
Total revenue
$1.5B
$1,465,915,989
From donations
15%
$218M of revenue
Highest reported salary
$2M
JOHN A FRY
Spending breakdown — and why we do not lead with it
Spent on programmes
87%
$1.3B of $1.5B spent

A high figure here is not straightforwardly good. The measure counts money spent on programmes against money spent running the organisation, so it rewards charities that under-invest in staff, systems and evaluation — and it can be moved by accounting choices rather than by doing more. The largest charity raters publicly abandoned it as a headline measure for exactly that reason. It is here because it is on the filing and people look for it, not because we think it tells you who to give to.

Employees
12,301
Volunteers
3,877
Total spending
$1.5B
Staff costs
$634M

No comparison shown. We list only 5 charities under this cause with a filing, which is too few to rank against meaningfully. A percentile drawn from a handful of organisations looks precise and means nothing.

Figures are as the organisation reported them to the IRS. We do not adjust, score or rate them, and we do not combine them into a single number — that would require deciding how much each one matters, which is your judgement to make, not ours.

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Against every University or Technological Institute charity in the country

631 filed under IRS code B43 in 2025
From donations
15%
higher than 53% of them
median 14%
Spent on programmes
87%
higher than 58% of them
median 85%
Highest salary
$2M
higher than 92% of them
median $273K

A percentile here is a position among charities the IRS classifies the same way — it is not a score, and being lower is not automatically worse. A large organisation running its own veterinary hospitals will spend a different share on programmes than one that passes grants through, and both are doing their job.

Others doing the same thing

IRS code B43 · 5 we list

Every organisation below is classified under the same IRS code, which is what makes putting them in one table defensible. Largest first — not ranked by any of the figures.

CharityRevenueFrom donationsProgrammesTop salary
The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University
Redwood City, CA · FY2024
$9.5B32%89%$5M
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
Cambridge, MA · FY2025
$6.7B18%81%$4M
University Of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA · FY2025
$5.9B23%81%$12M
Drexel University — this page
Philadelphia, PA · FY2025
$1.5B15%87%$2M
Texas A&m Foundation
College Sta, TX · FY2025
$434M60%68%$1M

A dash means the organisation has not filed a full Form 990 in the years we hold, or files the short return that omits the figure. It is not a zero, and it is not a mark against them.

The IRS registry lists this organisation’s revenue as $1.6B, while their most recent filing shows $1.5B. The registry figure is not always the latest year; the filing above is the one we show.