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Pepperdine University

PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY is a christian university committed to the highest standards of academic excellence and christian values, where students are strengthened for lives of purpose, service, and leadership. See schedule o for more information.

$150M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Itemized grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2022
0%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Itemized, FY2025
$6k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$6,250
Largest grant, FY2025
$6,250
Organizations funded a year
1 to 1
FY2018 to FY2022
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$2.7B

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 0% of the organizations Pepperdine University funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’22
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’22
EducationOther
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
FY2025still arriving1$6k100%
FY20221$908k0%
FY20201$5.0M100%
FY20191$116k100%
FY20181$31kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$6.1MHuman Services$6k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Wave Services Inc$5,948,473394%
Ohio Valley University Inc$115,98611%
Thomas Aquinas College$30,65910%
Forever Found$6,2501n/a

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About Pepperdine University

How much does Pepperdine University give?
Pepperdine University reported 1 itemized grants totaling $6,250, out of $150,373,104 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 1 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2022.
What does Pepperdine University fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%), Human Services (0%).
Who are Pepperdine University's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Wave Services Inc ($5.9M), Ohio Valley University Inc ($116k), Thomas Aquinas College ($31k).
Does Pepperdine University fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Pepperdine University based?
Pepperdine University is based in CA.

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 4 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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