Saint John's University
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 453656162
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024, Form 990-N 2011
- Location
- Collegeville, MN, US
- Phone
- 320-363-5650
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $177,677,023
- Expenses
- $127,206,754
- Assets
- $563,776,745
- Liabilities
- $65,836,303
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
39 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- KARA KOLOMITZ (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $367,655 total reported compensation
- RICHARD ICE (PROVOST): $298,698 total reported compensation
- ROBERT CULLIGAN (VP OF INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT): $295,001 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
CSB+SJU is a place to explore how you fit into the world, as well as explore your relationship with faith.
What it reported doing in 2024
Instruction: saint john's university's undergraduate college programs are designed to meet the needs and aspirations of young men, emphasizing leadership and a personal development profile that includes intellectual, spiritual, emotional and physical development. Its values-based and value-added residential liberal arts education provides the framework for fulfilling lives of disciplined inquiry and leadership in careers devoted to the professions, public life and service to others. Undergraduate fall enrollment of 1,397 fte students and 329 graduates. Approximately 12 percent of graduates go directly to graduate school, while the remainder choose to find career-related positions or enter service work.saint john's school of theology: seminary graduate program for men and women is a rich and diverse learning community in the benedictine tradition, where students receive strong support for their academic and spiritual development. The graduate program offers the master of arts degree in theology, liturgical studies, liturgical music, pastoral ministry, and a master of divinity degree. These degrees prepare students for ordination to the roman catholic priesthood and deaconate, for lay ministry, teaching, and further academic study. Graduate fall enrollment of 99 fte and 32 graduates.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 78% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 98
- Sustainability: 85
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.1%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 88.8%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.08 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 95%; rating input score 95; 34th 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: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- 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: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 96.9%; rating input score 97; 52nd 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: 28.4%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.43; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.6%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.4% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 90.1% of revenue deployed · 88.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 31 of 32 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $112.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $368K · 39 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $7.5M reported
- Consistency: 42 of 43 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 13 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 6 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 32/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.