The DePaulia
Have you ever wondered how much the university’s president gets paid or where your tuition money actually goes?
The DePaulia did, too. Not much information about DePaul and its administration is publicly available, as the private university is exempt from Freedom of Information Act laws by which most public agencies are required to abide.
But because DePaul is a nonprofit organization — exempt from paying income taxes — it is required to file an annual information return with the Internal Revenue Service called a Form 990 each year. That form, publicly available through the IRS, gives us a tip-of-the-iceberg view of the university’s inner workings. The most recent filing of this form — which covers the fiscal year ending in June 2019 — was made publicly available in January of this year.