St. Joseph's University, New York
Legal name: St Joseph's University New York
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 111733439
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Patchogue, NY, USA
- Phone
- 631.687.5100
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Undergraduate College (4-year)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $136,403,359
- Expenses
- $136,151,208
- Assets
- $164,468,030
- Liabilities
- $48,581,877
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
39 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DONALD BOOMGAARDEN (PRESIDENT (NON VOTING TRUSTEE))
Highest reported compensation
- DONALD BOOMGAARDEN (PRESIDENT (NON VOTING TRUSTEE)): $710,305 total reported compensation
- JOHN C ROTH (CFO (THRU 6/30/2025)): $357,039 total reported compensation
- CHRISTINE MURPHY (VP ENROLLMENT MANAGEMENT): $266,938 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of St. Joseph’s University is to provide a strong academic and value-oriented education at the undergraduate and graduate levels, rooted in a liberal arts tradition that supports provision for career preparation and enhancement.
What it reported doing in 2024
The dillon child study center offers toddler, preschool and kindergarten programs based on the child development approach to the education of young children. Located on st. Joseph's university, New York campus in the clinton hill section of brooklyn, dillon, founded in 1934, is historically one of the first university preschools on the east coast. Licensed by the New York city department of health and registered with the New York state department of education, dillon serves over one hundred children, with five classes for pre-kindergarten and kindergarten children and an inclusive class of both typically and atypically developing children. In a child-centered atmosphere, children learn through play and develop confidence, competence and dispositions for future learning. All teachers have obtained or are working toward early childhood certification and their master's degrees.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 93% 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 56% for direct work, and 44% 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 97
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.9%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 80.4%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.28 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Pass
- 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; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 95%; rating input score 95; 47th 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 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.21; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.3; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.4%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 80.9% of revenue deployed · 80.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 19 of 20 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $109.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $710K · 39 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $2.1M reported
- Consistency: 39 of 39 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 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: 19 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 28/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 33/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 56/100.