University of Indianapolis
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 350868107
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Indianapolis, IN, USA
- Phone
- 8002328634
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- University or Technological Institute
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $225,571,211
- Expenses
- $212,459,415
- Assets
- $301,952,546
- Liabilities
- $107,400,218
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
43 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Tanuja Singh (University President)
- Carey Dahncke (Associate Vice President, CELL)
Highest reported compensation
- Tanuja Singh (University President): $666,019 total reported compensation
- Chris Plouff (Executive VP and Provost): $329,941 total reported compensation
- Rick Graycarek (VP of Finance and Administration): $276,179 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 Indianapolis champions lifelong learning through relevant and innovative education that fosters experiential learning, diverse perspectives, service for impact, and a global mindset. We will strive to create a culture of philanthropy that transcends transactional exchanges, establishing enduring partnerships that withstand the test of time. Our goal is to ensure that our philanthropic efforts support our mission as well as our aspirations. Connected to the World The University of Indianapolis will enhance its global presence and engagement by creating more high-impact opportunities for our learners through study and service abroad and by increasing international student enrollment to further strengthen our global footprint.
What it reported doing in 2024
With 3,394 undergraduate students and 1,371 graduate students, the university of indianapolis (uindy) is a leader in awarding doctoral degrees in Indiana. Uindy procdues more clinical psychologists than any other university in the state. Uindy has a student-to-faculty ratio of 12 to 1 and an average class size of 16 students. In a national survey of college students, over 80% of first-year and senior students rate their entire educational expereince as 'excellent 'good'. In addition, our first-year and senior students rank us significantly higher than our peers in participation with service learning with their courses. Almost two thirds of reporting freshman report having completed at least one high impact practice such as service learning, learning community, or research with faculty. By their senior year, virtually all students have completed a high impact practice and almost two-thirds have completed more than one. Uindy's center of excellence in leadership of learning supports transformational change in education. Uindy's center for aging & community has been providing education, policy input, and training to nursing homes, government agencies, and individuals for over 20 years on real-world problems related to aging. The university has affiliations in china, including a partnership with ningbo institute of technology. The ruth lilly performance hall in the christel dehaan fine arts center, an indianapolis landmark, has been rated one of the finest concert halls in the midwest. The au ho-nien museum features 45 pieces of painting, poetry and calligraphy by master au ho-nien who combines traditional chinese painting with western perspective.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 71% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 59% for direct work, and 41% 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 77
- Accountability: 98
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.5%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 93%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: $27.12 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.7%; rating input score 95; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- 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: 95.3%; rating input score 95; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 97.3%; 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: 5.8%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.42; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.36; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.1%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 8 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 93.5% of revenue deployed · 93% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 36 of 37 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $197.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $666K · 43 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $10.4M reported
- Consistency: 39 of 41 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- 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: 186 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 179 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 50/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.