Harrison Middleton University
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 822492718
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Tempe, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 8772486724
- Rating
- 63
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Higher Education Institutions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $125,825
- Expenses
- $116,124
- Assets
- $261,500
- Liabilities
- $10,961
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DAVID W CURD JD EDD (PRESIDENT)
- MICHAEL H CURD EJD MED MA DA (VICE PRESIDENT & TREASURER)
People named in this filing
- DAVID W CURD JD EDD (PRESIDENT)
- MICHAEL H CURD EJD MED MA DA (VICE PRESIDENT & TREASURER)
- M REBECCA C FISHER MA DA (SECRETARY)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Harrison middleton university is a great ideas, great works, great conversations, distance-learning university that offers graduate education in the humanities with concentrations in imaginative literature, natural science, philosophy and religion, and social science. Harrison middleton university promotes student-faculty scholarship through research, discussion and the development of collaborative publications.
What it reported doing in 2024
The university offers a curriculum that engages students with the greatest books, ideas, authors, and events of western civilization. Students design a program of study with the guidance of an instructional team that will meet the personal interests of the student. Students participate in focused in-depth discussions on their reading selections, ideas, topics, and subtopics outlined in their program with tutors, teaching members at the university. Student achievement is measured by an appropriate number of proctored examinations and writing assignments that are spaced throughout the program of study.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and total assets are large relative to annual expenses, but may not be spendable cash. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 48
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 46.4%; rating input score 46
- Program expense ratio: 50.3%; rating input score 50
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.7%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.25; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.1% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.4% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 46.4% of revenue deployed · 50.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $58K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 46/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 50/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 54/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.