Le Moyne College
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 150545841
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Syracuse, NY, USA
- Phone
- 315-445-4100
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Undergraduate College (4-year)
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $160,351,641
- Expenses
- $160,629,257
- Assets
- $450,710,703
- Liabilities
- $103,110,377
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
53 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Linda LeMura PHD (President/Trustee)
Highest reported compensation
- Linda LeMura PHD (President/Trustee): $554,835 total reported compensation
- Joseph Grasso (VP Fin/Admin & Treasurer): $345,570 total reported compensation
- James Joseph (VP Advancement & Innovation): $305,200 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Le Moyne College, as a Jesuit Catholic institution, strives for academic excellence and human excellence, preparing students to lead with purpose through small classes, internships, service, and hands-on learning.
What it reported doing in 2024
The College offers several programs through its public service function to assist socially- and economically-disadvantaged high school students in successfully completing their secondary education and providing an opportunity to enter some form of post-secondary education. These programs provide advisement and tutoring experiences, as well as outside enrichment activities. The College also operates an academic support center offering tutoring and study groups to assist students in their coursework, to provide individual consultations to improve students' learning strategies and study skills, to provide support and counseling for students on academic probation, and to administer accommodations for students with learning and other disabilities. In addition to the Academic Support Center, the Noreen Reale Falcone Library supports the educational goals of Le Moyne College through a process of continuous review and improvement of collections, instructional programs, technology, and information services. The Library collection contains over 189,855 book titles (encompassing 221,987 volumes), 574,222 e-book titles, 1,356 print and 93,853 electronic periodical subscriptions, and 9,750 videos. In addition to in-house collections, access is provided to over 327 databases, that grant access to 110,378 digital media items.
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 58% for direct work, and 42% 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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 97
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.5%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 84.3%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.11 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 95.3%; rating input score 95; 48th 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: -0.2%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.81; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.23; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.8%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 85.5% of revenue deployed · 84.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 41 of 43 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $135.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $555K · 53 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $11.1M reported
- Consistency: 48 of 48 current checks pass
- Schedules: 14 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 11 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 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.
- 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: 7 of 8 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 26/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 59/100.