Vanderbilt University

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Financial Vulnerability Assessment (Tuckman-Chang)

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Financial Trends

Organization Details

Formation Year

1873

Legal Domicile

Phone

6153436601

Tax Period

2024-07-01 to 2025-06-30

Vanderbilt University, founded in 1873, is a large national nonprofit in the Education sector that reported $2.8B in total revenue in fiscal year 2024. Revenue grew 10% year-over-year, indicating healthy expansion. Expenses of $2.4B left a modest 15% surplus.

Mission

Vanderbilt expenses purchases for the fine art and library collections at the time of acquisition. As of June 30, 2025, the estimated replacement cost, including processing costs to properly identify, catalog, and shelve materials, for library collections totaled $501.5 million and for fine art collections totaled $50.2 million. Any proceeds from deaccessioned collection items are used for the direct care of existing collections. Direct care is an investment that enhances the life, usefulness, or quality of the collection.

Program Service Accomplishments

Program 1

Expenses: $1,406,821,926 Revenue: $1,450,858,431

Certain Individuals Listed in Form 990, Schedule J, Part II received a severance payment in connection to their termination of status as an officer or employee. 1 payout was made under a severance...

Certain Individuals Listed in Form 990, Schedule J, Part II received a severance payment in connection to their termination of status as an officer or employee. 1 payout was made under a severance agreement: Jerry Stackhouse: $3,460,000

Program 2

Expenses: $485,703,389 Revenue: $95,361,442

Certain individuals listed in Form 990. Schedule J, Part II, participate in nonqualified deferred compensation plans. Amounts contributed to the plans include fixed %s of annual bonus payments, and fixed dollar amounts. Contributions to the plan vest when individuals complete their contract term or continue employment to a designated date. Current year accruals of compensation associated with these plans are included in the amounts reported for such individuals in Schedule J, Part II, Column (C). The payout of these amounts in future years will be included in the amounts reported in Schedule J, Part II, Column (B)(iii), and will also be reported in Schedule J, Part II, Column (F). Three payouts were made under these plans to participating individuals in calendar year 2024. Anders Hall: $2,114,182 Darren Reisberg: $30,000 Douglas Christiansen: $500,000

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Trantor Score

Financial Health Score (300–850) · Liquidity · Solvency · Sustainability · Efficiency

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Liquidity (40%) • Solvency (30%) • Sustainability (20%) • Efficiency (10%)

Financial Overview (2024)

Revenue Breakdown

Contributions & Grants $494,671,806

Program Service Revenue $1,529,734,239

Investment Income $751,299,590

Other Revenue $42,851,341

TOTAL REVENUE $2,818,556,976

Expense Breakdown

Grants Paid $569,225,782

Salaries & Benefits $977,629,939

Fundraising Expenses $54,605,803

Program Expenses $1,892,525,315

Other Expenses $852,538,607

TOTAL EXPENSES $2,400,025,861

Year-over-Year Comparison

	2024	2023	Change
Revenue	$2,818,556,976	$2,567,650,038	+0.1%
Expenses	$2,400,025,861	$2,297,164,772	+0.0%
Net Income	$418,531,115	$270,485,266	+0.5%

Key Indicators

✓ Grants to Organizations ✓ Grants to Individuals ✓ Lobbying ✗ Political Activity ✓ Foreign Activities ✓ Donor Advised Fund ✓ Schedule B Required

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Financial Health Indicators

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Financial Distress Indicator

Liquidity & Cash Position

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Altman Z-Score • Liquidity Ratios • Solvency Analysis • Growth Indicators • Efficiency Metrics

Governance

Voting Members

Independent Members

Employees

14639

Volunteers

5500

Governance Policies

✗ Conflict of Interest Policy

✗ Whistleblower Policy

✗ Document Retention Policy

Special Practices & Reported Activities

✓ Operated a School

✗ Operated a Hospital

✗ Provided First Class Travel

⚠ Reported Conflict of Interest

✗ Reported Asset Diversion

✗ Excess Benefit Transaction

✗ Made Political Expenditures

✓ Engaged in Lobbying

✓ Operated Donor Advised Fund

✓ Maintained Art Collections

✗ Filed Form 720

Compensation of Officers, Directors & Key Employees

Total Officers

$22,114,124

Total Directors

$3,416,810

Key Employees

$1,701,923

Highest Compensated

reported

Name	Title	Hours/Week	Role	Reportable Comp	Other Comp	Total
Daniel Diermeier	See Schedule O	50.0	Officer Director	$3,020,799	$396,011	$3,416,810
Adena Friedman	Trustee	3.0	Director	$0	$0	$0
Adolpho A Birch III	Secretary	3.0	Director	$0	$0	$0
Alexander C Taylor	Trustee	3.0	Director	$0	$0	$0
Andrew Hoine	Trustee	4.0	Director	$0	$0	$0
Anu Pardeshi	Trustee	1.0	Director	$0	$0	$0
Bruce R Evans	Chairman	6.0	Director	$0	$0	$0
Cindy Kent	Trustee	1.0	Director	$0	$0	$0
Conner Searcy	Trustee	1.0	Director	$0	$0	$0
Corey E Thomas	Trustee	1.0	Director	$0	$0	$0
Cynthia J Warner	Trustee	2.0	Director	$0	$0	$0
David Ingram	Trustee	1.0	Director	$0	$0	$0
George Huber	Trustee	1.0	Director	$0	$0	$0
Greg S Allen	Trustee	1.0	Director	$0	$0	$0
Ike Lawrence Epstein	Trustee	3.0	Director	$0	$0	$0
Jeffrey J Rothschild	Vice-Chairman	3.0	Director	$0	$0	$0
Jennifer Frist	Trustee	1.0	Director	$0	$0	$0
John Arnold	Trustee	2.0	Director	$0	$0	$0
Jon Winkelried	Trustee	2.0	Director	$0	$0	$0
Justin Ishbia	Trustee	2.0	Director	$0	$0	$0
Kathleen E Justice-Moore	Trustee	1.0	Director	$0	$0	$0
Kito K Huggins	Trustee	2.0	Director	$0	$0	$0
Lamar Alexander	Trustee	2.0	Director	$0	$0	$0
Makeba Williams	Trustee	1.0	Director	$0	$0	$0
Mark P Mays	Trustee	2.0	Director	$0	$0	$0
Mark Wilf	Trustee	1.0	Director	$0	$0	$0
Nina Kohler	Trustee	1.0	Director	$0	$0	$0
Nora W Tyson	Vice-Chariman	3.0	Director	$0	$0	$0
Peter Marshall	Trustee	1.0	Director	$0	$0	$0
Robert Levy	Trustee	3.0	Director	$0	$0	$0
Sean Connolly	Trustee	3.0	Director	$0	$0	$0
Shaiza Rizavi	Trustee	2.0	Director	$0	$0	$0
Steven H Madden Sr	Trustee	4.0	Director	$0	$0	$0
Suzanne Perot McGee	Trustee	3.0	Director	$0	$0	$0
W Douglas Parker	Trustee	4.0	Director	$0	$0	$0
Anders W Hall	See Schedule O	50.0	Officer	$5,747,977	$2,679,418	$8,427,395
Brett C Sweet	See Schedule O	50.0	Officer	$1,680,346	$335,193	$2,015,539
C Cybele Raver	See Schedule O	50.0	Officer	$1,137,840	$45,056	$1,182,896
Candice S Lee	See Schedule O	50.0	Officer	$1,301,396	$95,536	$1,396,932
Darren Reisberg	See Schedule O	50.0	Officer	$525,209	$44,914	$570,123
Eric C Kopstain	See Schedule O	50.0	Officer	$768,143	$106,416	$874,559
John M Lutz	See Schedule O	50.0	Officer	$1,223,845	$36,720	$1,260,565
Nathan Green	See Schedule O	50.0	Officer	$524,512	$82,460	$606,972
Ruby Shellaway	See Schedule O	50.0	Officer	$929,921	$62,487	$992,408
Steve Ertel	See Schedule O	50.0	Officer	$479,834	$100,659	$580,493
Sydney Savion	See Schedule O	50.0	Officer	$754,023	$35,409	$789,432
John Kuriyan	See Schedule O	50.0	Key Emp	$809,365	$52,097	$861,462
Timothy P McNamara	See Schedule O	50.0	Key Emp	$796,737	$43,724	$840,461
Clark Lea	See Schedule O	50.0	Highest	$4,302,829	$51,528	$4,354,357
Douglas Christiansen	See Schedule O	50.0	Highest	$1,406,800	$103,228	$1,510,028
Jerry Stackhouse	See Schedule O	16.7	Highest	$4,779,501	$8,884	$4,788,385
Mark Byington	See Schedule O	37.5	Highest	$2,600,247	$110,082	$2,710,329
Timothy C Corbin	See Schedule O	50.0	Highest	$1,742,426	$304,953	$2,047,379
Andre L Churchwell	See Schedule O	50.0		$680,466	$45,350	$725,816
John Geer	See Schedule O	50.0		$735,475	$51,186	$786,661
Lawrence J Marnett	See Schedule O	50.0		$588,179	$44,395	$632,574
Nicholas S Zeppos	See Schedule O	10.0		$223,542	$0	$223,542

Note: Compensation data is self-reported by the organization on their Form 990. "Reportable Comp" includes salary, bonuses, and other reportable compensation from the organization and related organizations. "Other Comp" includes benefits, deferred compensation, and non-taxable benefits.

Historical Data

Year	Revenue	Expenses	Assets	Net Income
2025	$2,818,556,976	$2,400,025,861	$14,819,492,400	$418,531,115
2024	$2,567,650,038	$2,297,164,772	$13,766,694,412	$270,485,266
2023	$2,266,404,948	$2,025,948,154	$13,149,511,362	$240,456,794
2022	$3,316,640,682	$2,029,890,292	$13,531,777,510	$1,286,750,390
2021	$2,844,246,147	$1,922,598,487	$13,854,160,867	$921,647,660
2020	$1,708,856,937	$1,623,494,065	$9,430,450,954	$85,362,872
2019	$1,792,408,679	$1,588,618,453	$9,208,203,830	$203,790,226
2018	$1,703,756,728	$1,499,090,222	$7,199,658,829	$204,666,506