Moravian University
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 240795460
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Bethlehem, PA, USA
- Phone
- 1 800.441.3191
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $165,248,966
- Expenses
- $150,354,444
- Assets
- $392,148,183
- Liabilities
- $115,388,823
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
68 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DR BRYON L GRISBY (PRESIDENT/CEO)
- NICOLE LOYD (EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT FOR UNIVERSITY LIFE, COO)
- AMIR PATRICK TEJANI (SPECIAL ADVISOR TO THE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- DR BRYON L GRISBY (PRESIDENT/CEO): $616,275 total reported compensation
- CAROL A TRAUPMAN-CARR (PROVOST & VP ACADEMIC AFFAIRS): $275,213 total reported compensation
- JILL CATHERINE ANDERSON (VP DEVELOPMENT & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT): $271,136 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Moravian University is a private liberal arts university in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, that prepares students for successful futures through a commitment to undergraduate, graduate, and professional education.
What it reported doing in 2024
Moravian university: moravian university operates an independent, residential university affiliated with the moravian church in america. The university offers undergraduate and graduate degrees that blend liberal arts with professional programs. For more than 275 years, the moravian university degree has been preparing students for reflective lives, fulfilling careers, and transformative leadership in a world of change. The university educates a socially and religiously diverse group of students from a variety of ethnic backgrounds. During the year ended june 30, 2025, the university had an enrollment of 1,788 full-time undergraduate students, 364 full-time graduate students, and 98 full-time doctoral students.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 89% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 57% for direct work, and 43% 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: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 77
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.1%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 87.5%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.8 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 15; 15th 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: 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: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 92.2%; rating input score 92; 41st 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: 9%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.61; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.29; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.3%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.6% 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: 89.1% of revenue deployed · 87.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 47 of 51 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $131.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $616K · 68 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $22.7M reported
- Consistency: 39 of 39 current checks pass
- Schedules: 13 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: 17 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 scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 15/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 50/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 56/100.