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CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA

EIN 53-0196583 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2024
$425,408,328
Expenses 2024
$447,908,898

Program services were 88.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B430
Classification
2000
Street
620 MICHIGAN AVE NE

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

AS THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES, FOUNDED AND SPONSORED BY THE BISHOPS OF THE COUNTRY WITH THE APPROVAL OF THE HOLY SEE, THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA IS COMMITTED TO BEING A COMPREHENSIVE CATHOLIC AND AMERICAN INSTITUTION.

Activities or mission (Part I)

SEE SCHEDULE O

  • SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMS: FINANCIAL AID TO STUDENTS INCLUDES SCHOLARSHIPS, REMITTED TUITION AND STIPENDS FOR BOTH UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDY. 22,616 SCHOLARSHIPS WERE AWARDED DURING FISCAL YEAR 2025. GRANTS: THE UNIVERSITY MAKES OCCASIONAL CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS TO PUBLIC CHARITIES. DURING FISCAL YEAR 2025 THE UNIVERSITY ALSO AWARDED APPROXIMATELY 2,770 EMERGENCY AID GRANTS TO STUDENTS.

    Expenses $133,404,970 · Grants $133,404,970

  • INSTRUCTION AND DEPARTMENTAL RESEARCH: THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA IS AN INDEPENDENT CATHOLIC INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION LOCATED IN WASHINGTON DC, OFFERING PROGRAMS OF STUDY LEADING TO BACHELORS', MASTERS', DOCTORATE, AND PROFESSIONAL DEGREES IN THE LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES, RELIGIOUS STUDIES, AND SEVERAL PROFESSIONAL AREAS INCLUDING ENGINEERING, ARCHITECTURE, SOCIAL SERVICE, NURSING, MUSIC AND LAW. THE CURRENT ENROLLMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY IS APPROXIMATELY 6,017 OF WHICH 4,167 ARE UNDERGRADUATE AND 1,850 ARE GRADUATE STUDENTS (FALL 2025). THE UNIVERSITY OFFERS 49 DOCTORAL PROGRAMS, 88 MASTERS PROGRAMS AND 74 BACHELORS PROGRAMS. THE FACULTY CONSISTS OF 282 FULL-TIME AND 372 PART-TIME MEMBERS. OF THE FULL-TIMEFACULTY 93% HOLD DOCTORAL OR PROFESSIONAL DEGREES.

    Expenses $114,206,024 · Revenue $232,018,419

  • AUXILIARY SERVICES: UNIVERSITY DORMITORIES CONSIST OF 18 RESIDENCE HALLS WHICH PROVIDE LIVING QUARTERS FOR 1,908 STUDENTS. OCCUPANCY RATE AS OF FALL 2025 WAS 91%. THE UNIVERSITY ALSO PROVIDES RECREATIONAL FACILITIES, DINING SERVICES, PARKING, AND OTHER SELFSUPPORTING FACULTY, STAFF AND STUDENT SERVICES. COMMUNITY RENEWABLE ENERGY FACILITIES: THE UNIVERSITY ENTERED INTO A LONG TERM OPERATING LEASE AGREEMENT WITH AN UNRELATED PARTY TO CONSTRUCT AND OPERATE COMMUNITY RENEWABLE ENERGY FACILITIES ON A PORTION OF THE UNIVERSITY'S WEST CAMPUS.

    Expenses $42,260,094 · Revenue $48,184,849

  • OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES - SPONSORED RESEARCH: THE UNIVERSITY RECEIVED SPONSORED RESEARCH AWARDS SPANNING ALL DISCIPLINES. LIBRARY PROGRAMS: THERE ARE OVER 1.6 MILLION VOLUMES IN THE GENERAL LIBRARY SYSTEM AND IN THE LAW LIBRARY. THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA PRESS PUBLISHES ABOUT 35-40 BOOKS EACH YEAR IN THEOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY, LITERATURE, HISTORY AND POLITICAL THEORY. STUDENT SERVICES PROGRAM: A NUMBER OF OFFICES EXIST TO PROVIDE SERVICES TO STUDENTS, BOTH FOR ACADEMIC AND PERSONAL NEEDS. THESE OFFICES INCLUDE, AMONG OTHERS, THE ADMINISTRATION OFFICE, ENROLLMENT SERVICES, CAREER SERVICES, STUDENT ACTIVITIES, AND CAMPUS MINISTRY. INTERNATIONAL STUDY IS AVAILABLE IN AFRICA, ASIA, AUSTRALIA, CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA, AND EUROPE. CAMPUS MINISTRY PROVIDES MANY OPPORTUNITIES FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE IN THE WASHINGTON D.C. AREA AND IN OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED STATES AND ABROAD.

    Expenses $108,446,740 · Revenue $53,591,797

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.

  • PETER KILPATRICK

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $681,341
    From this org
    $625,749
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $55,592
    Hours/week
    40 + 2 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $567,673
    Bonus
    $51,218
    Other
    $6,858
    Deferred
    $34,500
    Nontaxable benefits
    $21,092
    Filer's total
    $681,341

  • ARCHBISHOP WILTON D GREGORY

    TRUSTEE/CHANCELLOR (THRU 01/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CARDINAL ROBERT MCELROY

    TRUSTEE/CHANCELLOR (AS OF 01/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • VICTOR P SMITH ESQ THRU 0624

    CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ROBERT J NEAL

    CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD (AS OF 06/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • WILLIAM E CONWAY

    VC OF THE BOARD (THRU 06/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BISHOP JOHN O BARRES

    VC OF THE BOARD (AS OF 06/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ANTONIO ENRIQUE SEGURA

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ARCHBISHOP ALLEN H VIGNERON

    TRUSTEE (THRU 02/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ARCHBISHOP BERNARD A HEBDA

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ARCHBISHOP BORYS GUDZIAK

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ARCHBISHOP SAMUEL J AQUILA

    TRUSTEE (THRU 06/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ARCHBISOP TIMOTHY P BROGLIO

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BISHOP DAVID L TOUPS

    TRUSTEE (AS OF 06/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BISHOP ROBERT BARRON

    TRUSTEE (AS OF 06/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BISHOP MICHAEL F BURBIDGE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CARDINAL BLASE J CUPICH

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CARDINAL DANIEL N DINARDO

    TRUSTEE (THRU 01/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CARDINAL JOSEPH TOBIN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CARDINAL SEAN P O'MALLEY OFM CAP

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CARDINAL TIMOTHY M DOLAN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CHRISTOPHER M VENO

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DEACON STEPHEN J KANEB

    TRUSTEE (THRU 06/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • E JEFFREY ROSSI ESQ

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • EDWARD GILLESPIE

    TRUSTEE (AS OF 06/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
    $425,408,328
    Expenses
    $447,908,898
    Contributions
    $69,529,996
    Grants paid
    $133,404,970
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $408,660,915
    Expenses
    $427,314,013
    Contributions
    $62,366,599
    Grants paid
    $125,160,280
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $388,328,004
    Expenses
    $386,592,699
    Contributions
    $64,776,870
    Grants paid
    $111,239,064

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
    $368,332,224
    Expenses
    $347,275,059
    Assets (EOY)
    $947,989,299

  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $334,648,312
    Expenses
    $331,821,938
    Assets (EOY)
    $943,835,203

  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $469,341,228
    Expenses
    $343,180,258
    Assets (EOY)
    $852,122,048

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $338,897,227
    Expenses
    $328,994,502
    Assets (EOY)
    $830,669,129

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $362,690,299
    Expenses
    $318,474,131
    Assets (EOY)
    $751,131,638

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

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 on its 2024 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 2024 return

  • CHARITABLE REMAINDER TRUSTS (1)

    T · SPLIT INTEREST AGREEMENT · NY

  • CHARITABLE REMAINDER TRUST (2)

    T · SPLIT INTEREST AGREEMENT · MD · controlled entity

  • CHARITABLE REMAINDER TRUST (3)

    T · SPLIT INTEREST AGREEMENT · DC · controlled entity

  • CHARITABLE PERPETUAL TRUST (1)

    T · SPLIT INTEREST AGREEMENT · MD

  • CHARITABLE PERPETUAL TRUST (2)

    T · SPLIT INTEREST AGREEMENT · OH

  • CHARITABLE PERPETUAL TRUST (1)

    T · SPLIT INTEREST AGREEMENT · SC

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

  • RUFFALO NOEL LEVITZ LLC

    $19,085 raised

    2023 Commercial Fundraiser

    -$17,200 to charity

  • RUFFALO NOEL LEVITZ LLC

    $26,168 raised

    2022 Commercial Fundraiser

    -$9,272 to charity

  • RUFFALO NOEL LEVITZ LLC

    $13,900 raised

    2022 Commercial Fundraiser

    $595 to charity

  • RUFFALO NOEL LEVITZ LLC

    $62,420 raised

    2021 Commercial Fundraiser

    $21,465 to charity

  • RUFFALO NOEL LEVITZ LLC

    $52,918 raised

    2021 Commercial Fundraiser

    $9,503 to charity

  • RUFFALO NOEL LEVITZ LLC

    $108,884 raised

    2020 Commercial Fundraiser

    $108,884 to charity

  • RUFFALO NOEL LEVITZ LLC

    $15,393 raised

    2020 Commercial Fundraiser

    $15,393 to charity

  • RUFFALO NOEL LEVITZ LLC

    $5,700 raised

    2020 Commercial Fundraiser

    $578 to charity

  • RUFFALO NOEL LEVITZ LLC

    $29,427 raised

    2019 Commercial Fundraiser

    -$107,906 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

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 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 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.