Rivier University
Overview
Mission
Our Mission
What it reported doing in 2024
Instructional, academic support, and student services expenses related to providing instructional services for 2,193 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students. Instructional programs range from liberal arts to professional studies. Programs such as nursing and education lead to licensure.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 89% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 66% for direct work, and 34% for grants.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 020223339
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Website reviewed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Headquarters
- Nashua, NH, US
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Universities
- Affiliation
- Christianity
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The website gives limited detail about important organizational relationships and the filing reports few safeguards for setting executive pay.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 68
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 86.5%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: $34.65 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
- Public monitoring controls: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Public policy transparency: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Public financial transparency: 0 of 5 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Impact reporting controls: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Public relationship transparency: No; rating input score 0
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Public governance controls: 0 of 4 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.4%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 2.81; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.41; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.5%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 8 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 81% of revenue deployed · 86.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 26 of 26 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $61.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $220K · 38 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 36 of 37 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 11 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 annual filings from 2009 to 2024
- Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link