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Princeton University

Princeton University is a university based in Princeton, NJ that was founded in 1746. As of 2019 they had $3.0 billion in revenue and $31 billion in assets.

As a research university with an internationally renowned faculty, Princeton seeks to reach the highest levels of achievement in the discovery and transmission of knowledge and understanding.

Previous legal names or variations of their name include: The Trustees Of Princeton University; and Finance And Treasury Office.

EIN:

21-0634501

City:

Princeton

State:

New Jersey

Metro:

Trenton-Princeton, NJ

Website:

princeton.edu

Phone:

609-258-3000

Facebook:

facebook.com/PrincetonU

Twitter:

@princeton

Founded:

1746

Type:

501(c)(3)

NTEE:

B43: Universities

Revenue:

$3,055,370,000

Assets:

$31,523,756,000

Employees:

15,304

Fiscal year end:

June

Revenue trends:

Asset trends:

Program areas at Princeton University

Education - Princeton University is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,400 undergraduate and 3,000 graduate students. 2,300 students graduated in The 2018-2019 academic year. As a world-renowned research University, Princeton seeks to achieve The highest levels of distinction in The discovery and transmission of knowledge and understanding. At The same time, Princeton is distinctive among research universities in its commitment to undergraduate teaching.

Auxiliary activities-princeton University furnishes services to The campus community including housing, dining, and conference and event services to approximately 8,400 students, 1,300 faculty, 5,700 staff, as well as The public. One of Princeton's defining characteristics is its small, residential community that offers a wealth of academic, extracurricular and campus life opportunities for students. Nearly all of The University's undergraduates and 70 percent of graduate students live on campus. The University also offers a variety of housing and dining programs for faculty and staff.

Research-one of The world's great research centers, Princeton University is The site of pioneering work across all academic areas.every member of The faculty is engaged in scholarly research; each year The members of The faculty publish more than 3,000 scholarly documents.in addition, graduate students and upperclass undergraduates pursue independent research. External sources funded 1,576 separate projects in 2018-19 as well as The Princeton plasma physics lab. ;there were 906 sponsored projects in The natural sciences, 506 in engineering and applied science, 137 in The humanities and social sciences, and 27 in non-academic areas.

Form 990s for Princeton University

Fiscal year ending	Date received by IRS	Form	PDF link
2019-06	Sep 18, 2020	990	View PDF
2018-06	Nov 4, 2019	990	View PDF
2017-06	Nov 15, 2018	990	View PDF
2016-06	Sep 21, 2017	990	View PDF
2015-06	Aug 4, 2016	990	View PDF
...and five more Form 990 PDFs

Financials for Princeton University

Field	2019	2018	% Change
Federated campaigns	$0	$0
Membership dues	$0	$0
Fundraising event contributions	$356,751	$364,302	-2.1%
Related organizations	$0	$0
Government grants (contributions)	$307,405,000	$292,917,000	4.9%
Normal grants, contributions, etc.	$426,339,249	$369,663,698	15.3%
<em>Non-cash contributions included in above</em>	$28,630,462	$24,089,684	18.8%
Total grants, contributions, etc.	$734,101,000	$662,945,000	10.7%

Field	2019	2018	% Change
Total grants, contributions, etc.	$734,101,000	$662,945,000	10.7%
Program services	$489,372,987	$459,707,271	6.5%
Investment income and dividends	$1,684,258,000	$1,702,251,000	-1.1%
Tax-exempt bond proceeds	$344,000	$698,000	-50.7%
Royalty revenue	$9,648,000	$12,558,000	-23.2%
Net rental income	$6,463,000	$29,333,000	-78.0%
Net gain from sale of non-inventory assets	$30,465,000	$21,479,000	41.8%
Net income from fundraising events	$-83,285	$-77,729	-7.1%
Net income from gaming activities	$0	$0
Net income from sales of inventory	$0	$0
Miscellaneous revenues	$100,801,298	$87,614,458	15.1%
Total revenues	$3,055,370,000	$2,976,508,000	2.6%

Field	2019	2018	% Change
Grants to govts. and orgs. in USA	$9,433,802	$24,501,920	-61.5%
Grants to individuals in USA	$356,295,337	$328,451,827	8.5%
Grants to govts., orgs., and individuals outside USA	$24,456,743	$19,656,339	24.4%
Benefits paid to or for members	$0	$0
Compensation of current officers, etc.	$14,427,000	$13,734,000	5.0%
Compensation not included above, to disqualified persons	$963,000	$1,788,000	-46.1%
Non-officer salaries and wages	$744,181,000	$713,671,000	4.3%
Pension/retirement accruals and contributions	$59,930,000	$62,013,000	-3.4%
Other employee benefits	$108,602,000	$112,726,000	-3.7%
Payroll taxes	$45,939,000	$44,019,000	4.4%
Management fees	$925,000	$1,139,000	-18.8%
Legal fees	$7,764,000	$3,222,000	141.0%
Accounting fees	$1,120,000	$1,095,000	2.3%
Lobbying fees	$502,000	$413,000	21.5%
Pro. fundraising fees	$0	$0
Investment mgmt fees	$1,878,000	$2,177,000	-13.7%
Other fee-for-service	$111,958,000	$80,985,000	38.2%
Advertising and promotion	$8,171,000	$7,995,000	2.2%
Office expenses	$67,650,000	$80,897,000	-16.4%
Information tech. expenses	$13,677,000	$12,745,000	7.3%
Royalty expenses	$4,137,000	$8,291,000	-50.1%
Occupancy	$65,013,000	$61,473,000	5.8%
Travel	$24,064,000	$22,064,000	9.1%
Public official travel and entertainment	$0	$0
Conferences, meetings, etc.	$8,094,000	$8,083,000	0.1%
Interest	$125,131,000	$148,916,000	-16.0%
Payments to affiliates	$63,327,000	$37,320,000	69.7%
Depreciation, amortization, etc.	$177,932,000	$173,677,000	2.4%
Insurance	$3,973,000	$3,752,000	5.9%
All other expenses	$48,561,118	$45,668,914	6.3%
Total expenses	$2,098,105,000	$2,020,474,000	3.8%

Field	2019	2018	% Change
Cash (non-interest-bearing)	$22,633,000	$23,231,000	-2.6%
Savings, short-term investments, etc.	$658,427,000	$427,100,000	54.2%
Pledges and grants receivable	$426,447,000	$359,966,000	18.5%
Accounts receivable	$74,458,000	$31,867,000	133.7%
Loans receivable from officers, directors, etc.	$5,635,726	$4,931,379	14.3%
Loans receivable from other disqualified persons	$0	$0
Notes and loans receivable	$441,148,274	$432,381,621	2.0%
Inventories for use	$6,923,000	$5,404,000	28.1%
Prepaid expenses and deferred charges	$12,883,000	$9,244,000	39.4%
Buildings, equipment, etc. post-depreciation	$4,189,596,000	$4,172,945,000	0.4%
Investments, publicly traded securities	$1,919,139,000	$1,730,619,000	10.9%
Investments, other securities	$23,766,466,000	$23,921,942,000	-0.6%
Investments, program-related		$0
Intangible assets	$0	$0
Other assets	$0	$0
Total assets	$31,523,756,000	$31,119,631,000	1.3%

Field	2019	2018	% Change
Accounts payable and accrued expenses	$204,533,000	$78,850,000	159.4%
Grants payable	$0	$0
Deferred revenue	$37,535,000	$167,660,000	-77.6%
Tax-exempt bond liabilities	$1,934,382,000	$2,006,200,000	-3.6%
Escrow or custodial account liability	$0	$0
Loans payable to officers and disqualified persons	$0	$0
Secured mortgages and notes payable to unrelated third parties	$46,711,000	$48,067,000	-2.8%
Unsecured notes and loans payable to unrelated third parties	$1,046,093,000	$1,266,976,000	-17.4%
Other liabilities	$735,015,000	$621,767,000	18.2%
Total liabilities	$4,004,269,000	$4,189,520,000	-4.4%

Field	2019	2018	% Change
Unrestricted net assets	$11,912,476,000	$11,666,006,000	2.1%
Temporarily restricted net assets	$13,369,149,000	$13,147,618,000	1.7%
Permanently restricted net assets	$2,237,862,000	$2,116,487,000	5.7%

Vendors for Princeton University

Vendor	Services	Amount paid	Date
Pricewaterhousecoopers LLP	Tax accounting; Audit accounting; Accounting (including auditing)	$49,230	2020-09-18
██████	Content management system software		2020-09-16
██████	Fundraising software		2020-09-16
███████ ███ ████	Fundraising software; Payment processing		2020-09-16
█████████	Content management system software		2020-09-16
█████████	Marketing software		2020-09-16
█████ ███████ ███	Transportation	$4,629,971	2019-06-01
████ ██████████	Architecture	$1,603,438	2019-06-01
...and 18 more vendors

Personnel at Princeton University

Name	Title	Compensation	Most recent data
Jay Dominick	Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer	-	Aug. 8, 2019
Nilufer K. Shroff	Chief Audit and Compliance Officer	-	Aug. 8, 2019
███████ ███████	Vice President for Finance and Treasurer	$532,527	June 30, 2018
███████ ███████	Vice President for Finance and Treasurer of the University	-	June 7, 2018
███ ██████	Vice President for Finance and Treasurer	-	Aug. 8, 2019
█████ ███████	Vice President for Communications and Public Affairs	-	Aug. 8, 2019
█████ ██ ██████	Vice President for Advancement	-	Aug. 8, 2019
██████ ██ ████████████████	Vice President for Human Resources	-	Aug. 8, 2019
██ ████████ ███████	Vice President for Campus Life	-	Aug. 8, 2019
███████ █████	Vice President for Facilities	-	Aug. 8, 2019
...and 22 more key personnel

Peer universities

	Name	Type	Revenue	Location
1	Brown University	501(c)(3)	$1.3 billion	Providence, RI
2	Trustees of Boston University	501(c)(3)	$2.6 billion	Boston, MA
3	Vanderbilt University	501(c)(3)	$1.7 billion	Nashville, TN
4	Yale University	501(c)(3)	$5.0 billion	New Haven, CT
5	Saint Johns University (SJU)	501(c)(3)	$817 million	Jamaica, NY
6	Tufts University	501(c)(3)	$1.1 billion	Somerville, MA
7	University of Pennsylvania (Penn)	501(c)(3)	$7.2 billion	Philadelphia, PA
8	Temple University (TU)	501(c)(3)	$1.7 billion	Philadelphia, PA
9	DePaul University	501(c)(3)	$841 million	Chicago, IL
10	University of Notre Dame	501(c)(3)	$2.1 billion	Notre Dame, IN
11	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	501(c)(3)	$4.4 billion	Cambridge, MA
12	Nova Southeastern University (NSU)	501(c)(3)	$765 million	Fort Lauderdale, FL
13	California Institute of Technology	501(c)(3)	$3.6 billion	Pasadena, CA
14	University of Cambridge	501(c)(3)	$2.6 billion	United Kingdom,
15	Southern Methodist University (SMU)	501(c)(3)	$850 million	Dallas, TX
16	American University (AU)	501(c)(3)	$815 million	Washington, DC
17	Washington University in St. Louis (Wash. U)	501(c)(3)	$4.0 billion	Saint Louis, MO
18	Harvard University	501(c)(3)	$5.7 billion	Cambridge, MA
19	Dartmouth College	501(c)(3)	$1.4 billion	Hanover, NH
20	Northeastern University (NU)	501(c)(3)	$1.6 billion	Boston, MA
21	Boston College	501(c)(3)	$1.1 billion	Chestnut Hill, MA
22	Northwestern University	501(c)(3)	$3.1 billion	Evanston, IL
23	University of Dayton (UD)	501(c)(3)	$774 million	Dayton, OH
24	University of Rochester	501(c)(3)	$4.1 billion	Rochester, NY
25	University of Delaware (UD)	501(c)(3)	$1.3 billion	Newark, DE

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