Virginia · Public charity
Liberty University Inc
Liberty university, inc. Is a distinctively christian academic community, with a mission of providing quality collegiate education training champions for christ.
- $379M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $700k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $430,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 16
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.1B
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Liberty University Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 10 | $700k | 60% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $521k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $1.5M | 38% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $971k | 91% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $1.1M | 67% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $1.2M | 46% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $4.4M | 64% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $1.0M | 86% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liberty University Foundation | $3,720,372 | 6 | 100% |
| Faith and Freedom Coalition Inc | $2,325,000 | 2 | 9% |
| Hope Partners International Inc | $919,960 | 4 | 8% |
| Lynchburg Beacon of Hope Inc | $700,000 | 4 | 18% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $505,610 | 3 | 0% |
| Academy Center of the Arts Inc | $500,000 | 1 | 26% |
| Vineyard Outreach America | $399,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Heritage Action for America | $300,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Citizens United | $300,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Tim Lee Ministries | $260,000 | 4 | 11% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Liberty University Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 47 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation · Foster Foundation · The Al Stroobants Foundation · Centra Health Inc · Schewel Charitable Foundation · The Imperial Charitable Trust · M4k Lynchburg Inc · Easley Char Irr Tua 5019004715 · Old Dominion Box Co Foundation Inc · The Harry D Forsyth Foundation · Carrington Family Foundation · Servant Foundation
How this is measured
About Liberty University Inc
- How much does Liberty University Inc give?
- Liberty University Inc reported 10 itemized grants totaling $700,260, out of $379,340,949 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Liberty University Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (38%), Public Benefit (21%), Religion (15%).
- Who are Liberty University Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Liberty University Foundation ($3.7M), Faith and Freedom Coalition Inc ($2.3M), Hope Partners International Inc ($920k).
- Does Liberty University Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Liberty University Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation, Foster Foundation, The Al Stroobants Foundation.
- Where is Liberty University Inc based?
- Liberty University Inc is based in VA.
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