Touro University

Overview

Mission

Touro university California provides graduate and professional educational excellence in the fields of health sciences, public health, and education focused on research and scholarship. See schedule o.tuc provides graduate and professional educational excellence in the fields of health sciences, public health, and education. The tuc learning experience is student-centered, enriched by focused research and scholarship, and prepares professionals for rewarding lives in service to others both locally and around the globe.

What it reported doing in 2024

Touro university, a California corporation, has two divisions: touro university California (tuc) and touro university worldwide (tuw). Tuc includes a college of osteopathic medicine, a college of pharmacy and a college of education and health sciences. Tuw operates a distance-learning unit offering bachelors, masters, and doctorate degrees, and it has undergraduate programs offered by touro college los angeles (tcla) offering bachelor degrees in business management and administration and psychology. During this fiscal year touro university granted the following academic degrees: undergraduate (97); graduate (776); and doctoral or first professional (220).

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 96% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 94% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
133838740
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024, Form 990-N 2010
Location
New York, NY, USA
Phone
6465656000
Rating
72
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Standard

Reported finances

Revenue
$106,079,632
Expenses
$102,630,439
Assets
$109,792,718
Liabilities
$33,279,049

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 77
  • Transparency & Controls: 69
  • Accountability: 70
  • Sustainability: 45
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 84.5%; rating input score 85
  • Program expense ratio: 88%; rating input score 88
  • Fundraising efficiency: $0.8 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: No; rating input score 0

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 65.4%; rating input score 65; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 3.3%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.07; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.3; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 3.8%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -2.7% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 84.5% of revenue deployed · 88% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 17 of 26 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $90.3M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $1.3M · 42 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $4.3M reported
  • Consistency: 35 of 37 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 11 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 16 annual filings from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 12 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 27 filed related-organization links
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 2/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Related-party transparency scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 27/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 55/100.

Leadership & pay

42 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • ALAN KADISH (PRESIDENT, CEO AND TRUSTEE): $1,301,965 total reported compensation
  • SALOMON AMAR (SR VP FOR RESEARCH AFFAIRS): $722,091 total reported compensation
  • PATRICIA SALKIN (PROVOST GRAD AND PROF SCHOOLS): $628,919 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024.