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MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION

EIN 36-3955804 DOWNERS GROVE, IL

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Revenue 2023
$4,343,768
Expenses 2023
$2,665,189

Program services were 92.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
555 31ST ST

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 · 2023

Mission

TO BENEFIT MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY BY PROVIDING FUNDING FOR PRIVATE LOANS TO STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY.

  • Midwestern University Foundation provided funding for federally guaranteed loans for students of the University under the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) Program. This program ended in 2010. In 2014, the Foundation created a new private loan program called the Midwestern University Private Loan Program (MPL Program) funded through the combination of equity and tax-exempt debt. The MPL program functions like the FFEL Program loans in some respects and like other private loan programs in other respects. Unlike loans made under the FFEL Program, loans made under the MPL Program are made by the Foundation directly to students and are not guaranteed by the federal government. Since the inception of the MPL Program, there have been loans awarded in the amount of $107,810,000 as of June 30, 2024. Foundation Bonds issued to fund the MPL Program are limited obligations of the Foundation, secured by and payable solely and exclusively from the student loans and related revenues and other assets comprising the trust estates created by the Trust Indentures pursuant to which those Foundation Bonds have been issued. The trust indentures for the Foundation Bonds contain numerous restrictions and requirements applicable to the MPL Program and the assets comprising the trust estates.

    Expenses $2,467,539 · Revenue $3,520,543

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Jean L Baxter JD

    VICE CHAIRPERSON/DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Kathleen H Goeppinger PhD

    PRESIDENT, CEO, DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $1,878,648
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $1,826,086
    Other
    $52,562
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $973,199 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $606,015 related
    Other
    $0 + $246,872 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $33,000 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $19,562 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $1,878,648 related
  • Kenneth R Herlin Ma MBA CPA

    Secretary, Treasurer, DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Kevin D Leahy Fache

    CHAIRPERSON, DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Gregory J Gaus

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Madeline R Lewis Do

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Thomas Eggleston

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Warren B Grayson JD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Gregory L O'Coyne CPA

    VICE PRESIDENT, FINANCE

    Total calculated
    $527,115
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $464,769
    Other
    $62,346
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $332,210 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $122,912 related
    Other
    $0 + $9,647 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $33,000 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $29,346 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $527,115 related
  • Matthew J Sweeney CPA

    ASSISTANT TREASURER, CFO, VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $771,890
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $708,646
    Other
    $63,244
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $435,042 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $240,375 related
    Other
    $0 + $33,229 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $33,000 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $30,244 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $771,890 related

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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,343,768
    Expenses
    $2,665,189
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,845,183
    Expenses
    $3,114,899
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0

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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,272,539
    Expenses
    $3,131,353
    Assets (EOY)
    $93,580,538
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,129,249
    Expenses
    $2,419,512
    Assets (EOY)
    $61,061,640
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,821,412
    Expenses
    $3,051,280
    Assets (EOY)
    $63,864,425
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,528,957
    Expenses
    $1,418,679
    Assets (EOY)
    $75,388,358
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,629,444
    Expenses
    $1,353,773
    Assets (EOY)
    $34,675,638
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,575,372
    Expenses
    $1,376,623
    Assets (EOY)
    $34,185,215
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $927,214
    Expenses
    $1,480,245
    Assets (EOY)
    $33,736,833
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    -$1,242,209
    Expenses
    $131,775
    Assets (EOY)
    $40,570,120
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $737,677
    Expenses
    $34,569
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,620,729
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $27,849
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,240,728

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.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

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.

Declared on its 2023 return

Declared as related by

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.

Related corporations and trusts on its 2023 return

  • OSTEOPATHIC MANAGEMENT ENTERPRISES INC

    C Corporation · INACTIVE · IL

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 13 October 2026, under deductibility SOUNK.

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 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.