University of the South

Sewanee, TN · EIN 62-0475697 · Education · Rank 2,551 by total revenue

An Episcopal University composed of the College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Theology.

Money, Form 990 for tax year 2024

Total revenue: $246,056,453
Total expenses: $193,784,099
Total assets: $882,375,531
Salary base (all salaries and wages): $57,504,216
Salaries, other pay and benefits: $76,696,780
Employees: 2,150
Salary base per employee: $26,746

"Salary base" is Form 990 Part IX lines 5 to 7. "Employees" is everyone who got a W-2 that year, full or part time. Form 990-EZ and 990-PF report pay differently; see About the data.

Leadership (176)

Name	Title	Role	Hours/week	Total pay
Robert Pearigen	Vice Chancellor/President	Officer	40	$628,437
Earl Williams	Treasurer thru June 30, 2025	Officer	40	$301,416
Scott Wilson	Provost	Officer	40	$298,075
Marquitte Starkey	General Counsel	Officer	40	$237,696
Jay Fisher	Secretary	Officer	40	$124,781
Robert Bachman	Board Member	Board	2	$169,394
Mishoe Brennecke	Board Member	Board	40	$121,820
Brent Tate	Board Member	Board	40	$117,010
Steve Dear	Board Member	Board	2	$39,100
Julie Gatta	Board Member	Board	2	$38,711
Abby Cole	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Adam Dawkins	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Andrew Carter	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Andrew Crone	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Andrew Moreman	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Angela Maria Cortinas	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Anna Graham	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Ashley Cusack	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Ashley Simpson	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Asitha Sandanayake	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
B J Shelton	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Betsy Cox	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Brian Jackson	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Brian L Cole	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
C Andrew Doyle	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Doris Westfall	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Walter Brownridge	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Carlton White	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Carmen Germino	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Chris Sturgeon	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Cindy Phelps Streit	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Dalton Lyon	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Daniel Manuel	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Daniel P Richards	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
David Bale	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
David Boyd	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
David G Read	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
David M Goldberg	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Debra Wilson	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Deon Johnson	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Donna S Mote	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Dorothy Sanders Wells	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Douglas Scharf	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Drew Broach	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Ed Miller	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Eliza Epps Williams	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Eric Stevenson	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Fay Fitzsimons Walker	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Felysha Jenkins	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Frank Sullivan Logue	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
George G Clarke Jr	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
George Harrison	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Glenda S Curry	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Gregory Hearing	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Harriet Cousins	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Harris Powers	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Harry Groce	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Hilary Jarvis	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
J Russell Kendrick	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
J Scott Mayer	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Jack Lauless	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Jacob W Owensby	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Jean McDowell Martin	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Jeff Runge	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Jeff W Fisher	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Jeffery L Patenaude	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Jennifer Brooke-Davidson	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Jennifer Staats	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
John Bauerschmidt	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
John T W Harmon	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Johnson Jeffers	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Jose A McLoughlin	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Joseph B Mays Jr	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Justin S Holcomb	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Kirby L Colson	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Kristine Laudadio Devine	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Kym Lucas	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Laura Marshall	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Leah Braswell	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Leslie Newman	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Lisa McIndoo	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Marian Keator	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Mark Van Koevering	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Marti Dalby	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Matthew Farr	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Matthew Hunter	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Max Angerholzer	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Michael Bordelon	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Michael Hoffman	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Molly Dougall Rasmussen	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Molly Holdeman	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Nancy Turner Jones	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Nancy Ward	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Neil Raman	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Nick Funk	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Pamela Jordan Anderson	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Paul Talbot	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Perrin Dargan	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Peter Eaton	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Phoebe A Roaf	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Rob Skirving	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Robert B Crow	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Robert B Wood	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Robert Beazley	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Robert Fowler	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Robert Husted	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Robert L Brown	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Robert Wright	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Robin A Reed	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Robin Rotman	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Rusty McCown	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Ruth M Woodliff-Stanley	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Samuel Rodman	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Sarah Johnson	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Scott Bagley	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Shannon Rogers Duckworth	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Stephanie Miller	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Stephen Spicer	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Susan Griffith	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Susan Haynes	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Tammy Breitbarth	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Tara Frankel Becker	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Terry Allen White	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Tom Purdy	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Trey Reliford	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Trippe Cheek	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Vera Guarino	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Whit Davis	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
William Stokes	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Wm Andrew McLarty	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Chalankis Brown	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
John Buckley	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Patrick Comer	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Julie Curd	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Renia R Dotson	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Rayid Ghani	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Sandy Guitar	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
O B Grayson Hall	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Elliott Harrigan	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Marcel Lettre	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Marguerite Lloyd	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Gene B Manning	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Nikki Mathis	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Mary Claire Murphy	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Katie Pearson	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Neil L Pruitt	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Don Rodgers	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Kathryn Ryan	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
W A Stringer	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Carol Titus	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Frances L Webster	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Charles L White	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Allison Pace	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Amanda Moran	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Catherine Foster	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Francis Ladd	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Fred Rhodes Jr	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
George Sumner	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
George Williamson	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Henry Setser	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Jackson Byron Greene	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
James Folds Jr	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Johanna Oliver Rousseaux	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Lenore Adeiran	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Lori Ranner	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Michael Edge	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Michael Goldsmith	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Michael Reeves	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Michael Smith	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Paige Fisher	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Raj Sivananthan	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Richard Ammons	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Ryan Currie	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Sher Shar Mir	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
Val Crumpton	Board Member	Board	2	None reported
William Campbell	Board Member	Board	2	None reported

Top 10 paid people listed

These 10 people received $3,006,499, which is 5.2% of the $57,504,216 salary base shared by 2,150 employees.

Name	Title	Role	Hours/week	From this org	From related orgs	Other pay	Total
Robert Pearigen	Vice Chancellor/President	Officer	40	$557,102	$0	$71,335	$628,437
Nancy Berner	Former Vice Chancellor/President	Former	40	$301,686	$0	$51,047	$352,733
Earl Williams	Treasurer thru June 30, 2025	Officer	40	$266,303	$0	$35,113	$301,416
Scott Wilson	Provost	Officer	40	$262,636	$0	$35,439	$298,075
Deborah Vaughn	Former VP University Relations	Highly paid employee	40	$252,321	$0	$33,112	$285,433
Marquitte Starkey	General Counsel	Officer	40	$210,597	$0	$27,099	$237,696
David Shipps	VP Econ Dev	Highly paid employee	20	$192,777	$0	$43,587	$236,364
Sibby Anderson Thompkins	Vice President for Community Building and Connections	Highly paid employee	40	$199,957	$0	$26,576	$226,533
Alyssa Summers	Assoc Professor	Highly paid employee	40	$201,612	$0	$20,991	$222,603
Betsy Sandlin	Former Dean of the College	Highly paid employee	40	$191,056	$0	$26,153	$217,209

Sources

IRS e-file return 202621319349305942 (Form 990, period ending 2025-06-30): readable copy at ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer
IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search for EIN 62-0475697
Organization website (as filed): www.sewanee.edu