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ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY

EIN 23-1522643 READING, PA

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Revenue 2024
$120,653,139
Expenses 2024
$116,621,137

Program services were 84.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1700
Street
400 SAINT BERNARDINE 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).

Group exemption

A subordinate covered by the group exemption of UNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCE (EIN 53-0196617). matched by us

The IRS lists each organization's group exemption number; we match a subordinate to its central organization by that number and the affiliation code the IRS assigns.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY IS A CATHOLIC COMPREHENSIVE UNIVERSITY WITH A LIBERAL ARTS FOUNDATION FOUNDED BY THE BERNARDINE FRANCISCAN SISTERS IN 1958. SEE CONTINUATION ON SCHEDULE O.

Activities or mission (Part I)

A CATHOLIC COMPREHENSIVE UNIVERSITY WITH A LIBERAL ARTS FOUNDATION FOUNDED BY THE BERNARDINE FRANCISCAN SISTERS

  • CONDUCT, OPERATE AND MAINTAIN A COLLEGE FOR THE EDUCATION, TRAINING AND SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE OF MEN AND WOMEN, WITH THE POWER TO CONFER UPON STUDENTS, WHO HAVE SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED THE REQUIRED COURSES, THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS AND THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE, AND SUCH OTHER DEGREES AS MAY BE APPROVED AND AUTHORIZED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA. THE COLLEGE HAS APPROXIMATELY 3,000 STUDENTS, INCLUDING UNDERGRADUATES, GRADUATES, AND PHD STUDENTS.

    Expenses $98,789,649 · Grants $38,833,082 · Revenue $101,943,619

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.

  • Gregory J Shemanski

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Michael Duff

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • John M Arnold Jr

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Charles Barbera MD

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Paula Barrett CPA

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Michael J Caron

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kevin P Deacosta

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sr Ann Deguise

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Richard Ehst

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Michael Fromm

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • John H Gallen Jr

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jane Gates PhD

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Patricia C Giles

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sr Madonna Marie Harvath Osf

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ellen Huyett

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Steven M Koons CPA

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ginger Kunkel

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Daniel Langdon

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sr Sandra Lyons

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Rachel Maher DMD

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sr David Ann Niski

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • David W Patti

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Karen Piraino

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sr John Ann Proach

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jeffrey Rush

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $120,653,139
    Expenses
    $116,621,137
    Contributions
    $15,723,864
    Grants paid
    $38,833,082
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $109,201,504
    Expenses
    $109,326,332
    Contributions
    $9,946,213
    Grants paid
    $36,725,026
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $110,643,942
    Expenses
    $104,747,650
    Contributions
    $17,261,975
    Grants paid
    $34,570,461

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

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 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
    $111,427,608
    Expenses
    $96,409,408
    Assets (EOY)
    $194,339,398
  • 2021 · 990-T

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

    Revenue
    $95,081,887
    Expenses
    $86,819,297
    Assets (EOY)
    $194,374,923
  • 2020 · 990-T

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

    Revenue
    $90,031,322
    Expenses
    $89,491,945
    Assets (EOY)
    $170,646,570
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $87,506,069
    Expenses
    $84,919,017
    Assets (EOY)
    $157,362,646
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $84,442,742
    Expenses
    $79,664,434
    Assets (EOY)
    $151,614,989

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 2007

Tax period
1 July 2007 to 30 June 2008
Principal officer
Donna Agnew
Mailing address
421 Saint Bernardine StreetNursingReading PA 19608
Doing business as
Upsilon Zeta Chapter 460 Nursing Honor Society

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 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

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

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.

Declared on its 2024 return

  • BERNARDINE SISTERS OF THE THIRD ORDER OF ST FRANCIS

    501(C)(3) · RELIGIOUS ORDER · PA

Declared as related by

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

Not present in the most recent drop.

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 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.