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THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY

EIN 58-0566167 MACON, GA

Revenue 2024
$484,697,995
Expenses 2024
$453,782,267

Program services were 95.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B43
Classification
2000
Street
1501 MERCER UNIVERSITY DR

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).

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.

  • THOMAS P BISHOP

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • WILLIAM UNDERWOOD

    PRESIDENT/PROFESSOR

    Total calculated
    $613,384
    From this org
    $558,447
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $54,937
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $558,447
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $34,500
    Nontaxable benefits
    $20,437
    Filer's total
    $613,384

  • AMY MILLER WALL

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ASHLEY AMOS COPELAN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BENJAMIN W GRIFFITH

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CAROYN TOWNSEND MCAFEE BRUNER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CATHY CALLAWY ADAMS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHARLES L CANTRELL III

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHARLES WATSON JR

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHRIS R SHERIDAN JR

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAVID E HUDSON

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAVID E LINCH

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DERICUS K HARVEY

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DR BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DR JAMES C ELDER JR

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DR SPENCER B KING

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DWIGHT J DAVIS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • EDWARD SCHUTTER JR

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ELI MORGAN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ERIN KELLER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GENE GABBARD

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GENELLE JENNINGS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • HEATHER DARDEN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • J HENRY WALKER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • J THOMAS MCAFEE

    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 — 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
    $484,697,995
    Expenses
    $453,782,267
    Contributions
    $69,638,691
    Grants paid
    $108,440,473
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $477,213,144
    Expenses
    $443,819,035
    Contributions
    $61,644,050
    Grants paid
    $105,223,802
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $434,660,951
    Expenses
    $414,983,749
    Contributions
    $62,393,992
    Grants paid
    $97,527,781

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

Nonprofiteer parses the Form 990 only. 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.

Grants made

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

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.

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

Listed as of 10 September 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.