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Mount Vernon Nazarene University

Mount Vernon Nazarene University is an accredited four-year liberal arts University that confers two- and four-year degrees and graduate degrees in a variety of academic disciplines. In addition, it provides logistical support for the educational and theological efforts of the Church of the Nazarene and other like-minded religious and…

$27M
Granted FY2021
1
Itemized grants FY2021
1
Organizations funded FY2020
0%
First-time grantees FY2020
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100% of Mount Vernon Nazarene University’s FY2021 grant dollars went to Knox County Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

2
’18
1
’19
1
’20
0
’21

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Itemized, FY2021
$117k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2021
$116,610
Largest grant, FY2021
$116,610
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2018 to FY2020
States reached, FY2021
1
Total assets, FY2021
$98M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 0% of the organizations Mount Vernon Nazarene University funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20201$6k0%
FY20191$8k0%
FY20182$44kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2021.

Philanthropy$117kInternational$37kFood & Nutrition$22k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Luke Commission$36,55811%
Food for the Hungry Inc$21,73433%

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About Mount Vernon Nazarene University

How much does Mount Vernon Nazarene University give?
Mount Vernon Nazarene University reported 1 itemized grants totaling $116,610, out of $26,747,624 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2020.
What does Mount Vernon Nazarene University fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2020, its largest causes are Philanthropy (67%), International (21%), Food & Nutrition (12%).
Who are Mount Vernon Nazarene University's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2020: The Luke Commission ($37k), Food for the Hungry Inc ($22k).
Does Mount Vernon Nazarene University fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Mount Vernon Nazarene University based?
Mount Vernon Nazarene University is based in OH.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 3 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $32M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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