University of the Pacific
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 941156266
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Stockton, CA, United States
- Phone
- 2099467704
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- University or Technological Institute
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $588,040,814
- Expenses
- $532,251,889
- Assets
- $1,560,854,577
- Liabilities
- $314,725,726
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
52 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Callahan Christopher (President)
- Edwalds-Gilbert Gretchen (Provost & Executive Vice President)
- Henderson Robert (Vice President Technology & CIO)
- Walsh James (Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President for Finance and Operations)
Highest reported compensation
- Callahan Christopher (President): $816,167 total reported compensation
- Lam David (Associate Dean Medical Integration, Chairperson Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Professor): $756,967 total reported compensation
- Cox Darren (Professor): $555,161 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
University of the Pacific’s mission is to provide a superior, student-centered learning experience integrating liberal arts and professional education and preparing individuals for lasting achievement and responsible leadership in their careers and communities. and Vision Welcome to the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. We lead the charge in shaping a university culture that recognizes diversity, equity, and inclusion as fundamental pillars of our mission and ongoing pursuit of excellence. Our commitment to educational equity drives us to cultivate a vibrant learning and working environment that embraces and supports every member. Collaborating closely with stakeholders across the university, we prioritize policy and decision-making that demonstrates awareness of, and responsiveness to, the ways socio-cultural forces related to race, gender, ability, sexuality, and...
What it reported doing in 2024
Instruction, departmental and academic support: includes the salaries, benefits, supplies and departmental support necessary to deliver higher education services for the university's approximately 6,900 undergraduate, graduate and professional students across three northern California campuses. The university's main campus in stockton combines many of the advantages of a larger university with those of a small liberal arts college, offering a broad array of undergraduate, graduate and professional degree programs through various schools, including the college of the pacific, the school of engineering and computer science, the conservatory of music, the eberhardt school of business, benerd college, and the thomas j. Long school of pharmacy. The san francisco campus is home to the arthur a. Dugoni school of dentistry, one of the leading dental schools in the nation and several other new academic programs including: data analytics, audiology, and music therapy. The sacramento campus is home to the mcgeorge school of law and has also expanded to include several specialized legal degree programs, graduate programs and the school of health sciences.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 82% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 74% for direct work, and 26% 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 reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 80
- Accountability: 98
- Sustainability: 70
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.3%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 95.5%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: $24.12 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- 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: 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%; rating input score 96; 50th 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: 9.5%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.93; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.2; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.1%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 92.3% of revenue deployed · 95.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 24 of 25 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $508.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $816K · 52 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $5.4M reported
- Consistency: 44 of 44 current checks pass
- Schedules: 14 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: 28 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
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.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 54/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.