Ohio Dominican University
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 314379560
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Columbus, OH, USA
- Phone
- 614-251-4500
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Undergraduate College (4-year)
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $44,983,803
- Expenses
- $48,969,851
- Assets
- $66,702,475
- Liabilities
- $49,667,963
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
24 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- NAUGHTON JOHN (VICE PRESIDENT for Enrollment & Student Success)
- RIEDLINGER SHONNA (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- GRABOVICH AARON (DIRECTOR OF ANETHESIOLIGIST ASSISTANT STUDIES): $275,691 total reported compensation
- RIEDLINGER SHONNA (PRESIDENT): $258,851 total reported compensation
- POWELL CAMERON (DIRECTOR OF PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT PROGRAM): $225,224 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Ohio Dominican University, as a Catholic university, is a diverse and inclusive academic community of learners, grounded in Dominican tradition and the pursuit of truth, justice and peace. We prepare students for lives of meaningful work, service and leadership in a global society.
What it reported doing in 2024
Ohio dominican university is a catholic liberal arts university that encourages its students to pursue a meaningful education that fuels intellectual and spiritual curiosity. Student enrollment for fy24 consisted of the following: summer 2023 = 309 fte fall 2023 = 1167 fte spring 2024 = 1054 fte
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 92% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 62% for direct work, and 38% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 98.2%; rating input score 98
- Program expense ratio: 88%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.13 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8.9%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.36; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.74; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.7%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.8% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.6% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 98.2% of revenue deployed · 88% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $43.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $276K · 24 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $5M reported
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, 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
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.