University of Dallas
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 750926755
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Irving, Texas, United States
- Phone
- 972-721-5266
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Undergraduate College (4-year)
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $119,642,935
- Expenses
- $121,156,928
- Assets
- $193,537,274
- Liabilities
- $38,994,149
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
57 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Gabe Barkley (NAB President)
- Jonathan Sanford (President)
- Andrew Ellison (Vice President Enrollment Management)
- Ashton Ellis (Vice President for Development and University Relations)
- Clare Venegas (Vice President for Marketing and Communications)
- John Plotts (Executive Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Jonathan Sanford (President): $567,331 total reported compensation
- Robert Watling (Vice President Finance and Chief Financial Officer): $320,202 total reported compensation
- J Lee Whittington (Dean, Satish & Yasmin Gupta College of Business): $285,428 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 University of Dallas is dedicated to the pursuit of wisdom, of truth, and of virtue as the proper and primary ends of education. The University seeks to educate its students so they may develop the intellectual and moral virtues, prepare themselves for their calling as men and women of faith in the world.
What it reported doing in 2024
The constantin college of liberal arts seeks to educate students of seriousness, intelligence and spirit in accordance with the fundamental mission of the university of dallas - the specific mission of the constantin college is to provide undergraduate education through baccalaureate degree programs which include a substantial and coherent core curriculum common to all undergraduates and major studies in the humanities and sciences proper to liberal learning. The core curriculum emphasizes the study of the great deeds and works of western civilization, both ancient and modern. The majors are built upon the core and invite students to disciplined inquiry into fundamental aspects of being and of our relation to god, to nature and to fellow human beings. The curriculum as a whole seeks to enable students to achieve the knowledge of nature and the understanding of the human condition necessary for them to comprehend the fundamental character of the world in which they are called to live and work.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 88% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 46% for direct work, and 54% 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: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 76
- Accountability: 98
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.5%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 80.1%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.68 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 19; 19th 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: Pass
- 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; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 97.2%; rating input score 97; 53rd 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: -1.3%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.6; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.2; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.9%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 85.5% of revenue deployed · 80.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 35 of 36 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $97.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $567K · 57 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $9.9M reported
- Consistency: 44 of 44 current checks pass
- Schedules: 13 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 26 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 4 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 27/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.