Jacksonville University
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 590624412
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Jacksonville, FL, US
- Phone
- (904) 256-7060
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- University or Technological Institute
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $227,501,878
- Expenses
- $232,145,639
- Assets
- $432,015,496
- Liabilities
- $332,254,904
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
36 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Timothy Cost (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Timothy Cost (President): $1,102,501 total reported compensation
- Christine Sapienza (Executive VP, Partnership & Development): $644,048 total reported compensation
- Eman Othman (Asst. Professor Orthodontics): $431,941 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Jacksonville University prepares students for lifelong success through transformative educational experiences, fostering intellectual curiosity, ethical leadership, and global engagement.
What it reported doing in 2024
Jacksonville university ("ju") is a small, comprehensive, independent university combining the best attributes of the liberal arts and sciences tradition and professional studies. The ju learning community provides personalized service and close student-faculty interaction with an emphasis on engaged learning. The college of arts & sciences, the davis college of business, the college of fine arts, the college of health sciences, and the school of orthodontics offer more than 70 undergraduate majors plus graduate programs in business, choreography, visual arts, education, math, marine science, nursing and orthodontics. Jacksonville university prepares its students to succeed in meaningful careers and advanced study at the graduate level and also to function as well-educated, well-rounded, service-minded citizens in our modern society. (continued on schedule o)
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 84% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 51% for direct work, and 49% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 73
- Accountability: 96
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.4%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 81.1%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $40.02 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- 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
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 92.6%; rating input score 93; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.86; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.77; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.9%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 83.4% of revenue deployed · 81.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 25 of 27 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $188.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.1M · 36 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $22.2M reported
- Consistency: 39 of 39 current checks pass
- Schedules: 12 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.