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TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY

EIN 04-2103547 BOSTON, MA

Revenue 2024
$3,513,830,353
Expenses 2024
$3,419,039,088

Program services were 90.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
881 COMMONWEALTH AVE

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.

  • MELISSA L GILLIAM

    PRESIDENT (AS OF 7/1/24)

    Total calculated
    $1,704,300
    From this org
    $1,350,089
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $354,211
    Hours/week
    55 + 1 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $1,135,549
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $214,540
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $354,211
    Filer's total
    $1,704,300

  • KEVIN E SMITH

    TRUSTEE & PROFESSOR

    Total calculated
    $269,919
    From this org
    $231,946
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $37,973
    Hours/week
    55

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $215,608
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $16,338
    Deferred
    $26,684
    Nontaxable benefits
    $11,289
    Filer's total
    $269,919

  • MAUREEN ALPHONSE-CHARLES

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • THOMAS J BICKERTON

    TRUSTEE (AS OF 9/26/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • CASSANDRA M CLAY

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • CYNTHIA R COHEN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • JOHN D COURIS

    TRUSTEE (AS OF 9/26/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • SHAMIM A DAHOD

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • NATHANIEL DALTON

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • AHMASS L FAKAHANY

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • MAURICE R FERRE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • SANDRA A FRAZIER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • MICHAEL D FRICKLAS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • RYAN K ROTH GALLO

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • RICHARD C GODFREY

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • ANTONIO G GOMES

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • CAROLYN HESSLER-RADELET

    TRUSTEE (UNTIL 8/20/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • RAJEN A KILACHAND

    TRUSTEE (UNTIL 9/26/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • RANCH C KIMBALL

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • ANTOINETTE R LEATHERBERRY

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • KENNETH LIN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • JOSEPH LOSCALZO

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • KEVIN MERIDA

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • RUTH A MOORMAN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • ALICIA C MULLEN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

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
    $3,513,830,353
    Expenses
    $3,419,039,088
    Contributions
    $783,991,107
    Grants paid
    $938,613,847
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,257,563,350
    Expenses
    $3,195,959,811
    Contributions
    $709,188,163
    Grants paid
    $858,377,304
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,310,909,056
    Expenses
    $3,006,440,897
    Contributions
    $838,648,817
    Grants paid
    $821,349,638

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 on its 2024 return

The first 25 as filed. The return lists every one.

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.