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ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY

EIN 43-0654872 SAINT LOUIS, MO

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Revenue 2024
$1,195,599,660
Expenses 2024
$967,639,853

Program services were 83.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B430
Classification
1000
Street
3545 LINDELL BLVD

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE MISSION OF SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY IS THE PURSUIT OF TRUTH FOR THE GREATER GLORY OF GOD AND FOR THE SERVICE OF HUMANITY. THE UNIVERSITY SEEKS EXCELLENCE IN THE FULFILLMENT OF ITS CORPORATE PURPOSES OF TEACHING, RESEARCH, HEALTH CARE AND SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY. IT IS DEDICATED TO LEADERSHIP IN THE CONTINUING QUEST FOR UNDERSTANDING OF GOD'S CREATION AND FOR THE DISCOVERY, DISSEMINATION AND INTEGRATION OF THE VALUES, KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS REQUIRED TO TRANSFORM SOCIETY IN THE SPIRIT OF THE GOSPELS. AS A CATHOLIC, JESUIT UNIVERSITY, THIS PURSUIT IS MOTIVATED BY THE INSPIRATION AND VALUES OF THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN TRADITION AND IS GUIDED BY THE SPIRITUAL AND INTELLECTUAL IDEALS OF THE SOCIETY OF JESUS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO SEEK EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING, RESEARCH, HEALTH CARE, AND SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY AS GUIDED BY THE SPIRITUAL AND INTELLECTUAL IDEALS OF THE SOCIETY OF JESUS.

  • INSTRUCTION AND ACADEMIC SUPPORT - CREDIT AND NON-CREDIT COURSES FOR ACADEMIC, VOCATIONAL, AND TECHNICAL INSTRUCTION, FOR REMEDIAL AND TUTORIAL INSTRUCTION, AND FOR REGULAR, SPECIAL AND EXTENSION SESSIONS. ACTIVITIES IN THIS CATEGORY INCLUDE SUPPORT SERVICES SUCH AS LIBRARIES, EDUCATIONAL MEDIA SERVICES, ACADEMIC COMPUTING SUPPORT, ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATION, ETC. 15,334 STUDENTS ENROLLED FOR 6/30/2025 FISCAL YEAR.

    Expenses $505,882,946 · Grants $290,059,128 · Revenue $564,991,344

  • AUXILIARY ENTERPRISES - ACTIVITIES IN THIS CATEGORY EXIST TO FURNISH GOODS OR SERVICES TO STUDENTS, FACULTY OR STAFF. THESE INCLUDE RESIDENCE HALLS, FOOD SERVICES, INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS, PARKING AND OTHER SUCH SERVICES. CAMPUS RESIDENTS TOTALED 3,770 FOR THE 2024 FALL SEMESTER AND 3,502 FOR THE 2025 SPRING SEMESTER.

    Expenses $46,048,360 · Grants $107,135 · Revenue $64,773,120

  • RESEARCH - SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY IS A R1 RESEARCH ORGANIZATION. THE ORGANIZATION IS HOME TO A DIVERSE RANGE OF RESEARCH TOPICS FROM VACCINATION DEVELOPMENT TO FOOD SECURITY. SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY FACULTY AND STUDENTS WORK TOGETHER TO PURSUE DISCOVERIES THAT SPAN THE ENTIRE ACADEMIC SPECTRUM.

    Expenses $60,065,784 · Grants $1,004,152

  • OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES**OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES ARE COMPRISED OF PUBLIC SERVICE, STUDENT SERVICES, INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT, PLANT OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, AND THE CENTER FOR ADVANCED DENTAL & ENDODONTICS.

    Expenses $197,017,116 · Grants $52,343,947 · Revenue $4,545,007

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Fred P Pestello

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $1,841,355
    From this org
    $1,804,665
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $36,690
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $1,800,957
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $3,708
    Deferred
    $34,500
    Nontaxable benefits
    $2,190
    Filer's total
    $1,841,355
  • Akberet Boykin-Farr

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Andrew Hoog

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Arindam Kar

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Chang-Soo Huh

    TRUSTEE (TERMED MAY25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Darryl T Jones

    TRUSTEE (TERMED MAY25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Edward Ignaczak

    TRUSTEE (TERMED MAY25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Eric Engler

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • George A Brill

    TRUSTEE (TERMED MAY25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Holden Thorp

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • James Lally

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • James P Kavanaugh

    TRUSTEE (TERMED MAY25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Jerry Dwyer

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Jessie Knight

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Jimmie Edwards

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • John Johnson

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Joseph Conran

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Joseph McShane Sj

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Marian Bo Mehan

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Martha Uhlhorn

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Michael Garanzini

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Michael McFarland

    TRUSTEE (TERMED MAY25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Michael McMillan

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Perry Vyas

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Philip Steele

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

The first 25 listed. Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,195,599,660
    Expenses
    $967,639,853
    Contributions
    $154,189,167
    Grants paid
    $343,507,430
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $864,274,135
    Expenses
    $915,038,750
    Contributions
    $114,173,859
    Grants paid
    $289,828,891
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,121,394,454
    Expenses
    $875,464,191
    Contributions
    $109,794,947
    Grants paid
    $264,088,005

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,324,139,331
    Expenses
    $1,170,217,395
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,671,166,373
  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,132,791,738
    Expenses
    $1,074,447,674
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,817,505,000
  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,013,550,302
    Expenses
    $1,039,203,682
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,505,467,689
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,095,029,778
    Expenses
    $1,020,382,855
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,500,376,035
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,029,810,845
    Expenses
    $981,020,685
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,324,024,385
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $967,925,327
    Expenses
    $956,488,810
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,266,637,197

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2022

Tax period
1 July 2022 to 30 June 2023
Principal officer
Hafsa Mou
Mailing address
3450 Lindell BlvdSt Louis MO 63103

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 9 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

  • THE TAYLOR GEOSPATIAL INSTITUTE

    $48,995,369

    2024 CREATION OF A NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED CENTER FOR GEOSPATIAL RESEARCH TO ACCELERATE THE ST. LOUIS REGION'S DEVELOPMENT AS A GLOBAL GEOSPATIAL CENTER OF EXCELLENCE.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Disregarded entities on its 2024 return

  • COMPTON PROPERTIES

    REAL ESTATE · MO · income -$461 · assets $0

Related corporations and trusts on its 2024 return

  • SLU BLOCKER 1

    C · REAL ESTATE · MO · 100% owned · share of income $43,020 · share of assets $17,972,549 · controlled entity

  • SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY IN SPAIN SA

    C · EDUCATION · SP · 100% owned · share of income $5,824,196 · controlled entity

  • ST LOUIS MIDTOWN REDEVELOPMENT CORP

    S · URBAN REVITALIZATION · MO · 97% owned · share of assets $162,936 · controlled entity

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.