Texas · Nonprofit
ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY (Texas) receives grants from 175 organizations whose IRS filings report $84,100,244 to it, the largest being CARIS FOUNDATION ($16,484,500). 107 of them have funded it in more than one year. ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$1.5M
Recipients
47
Contributions on record
$100M
Donors on record
178
Payments out are 0.01x the contributions on record, so the balance accumulates rather than passing straight through.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Hispanic Scholarship Fundshared funders
- Kerfoot Scholarship Foundationportfolio match
- Franklin W & Helen S Bowen Charitable Trustportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 3% · 2018 3% · 2019 2% · 2020 3% · 2021 2% · 2022 5% · 2023 3% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 42 funders to 76 funders, grant income rose $6.8M → $12M.
33 of 175 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $16M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Grace L Woodward Memorial Endowment Trust); $526k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Acimco). These are real filings, and they are not money ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY raised.
From the IRS filings of ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 175 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
83% of ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 175 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Hispanic Scholarship Fundshared fundersCA · backs 143 organizations that share your funders
- Kerfoot Scholarship Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Franklin W & Helen S Bowen Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Keown Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Incshared fundersDC · backs 90 organizations that share your funders
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depressionshared fundersNY · backs 74 organizations that share your funders
- Ernest Wentcher Educational Fundshared fundersIL · backs 78 organizations that share your funders
- Howard Hughes Medical Instituteshared fundersMD · backs 98 organizations that share your funders
- American Chemical Societyshared fundersDC · backs 159 organizations that share your funders
- Russell Sage Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 70 organizations that share your funders
- American Council of Learned Societiesshared fundersNY · backs 122 organizations that share your funders
- Deloitte Foundationshared fundersCT · backs 140 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $33.3M on record.
- Department of Education$29.0M
- Department of Energy$3.7M
- National Endowment for the Humanities$380k
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$98k
- National Science Foundation$51k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Arl Multi-Family LLC · disregarded
- Arl Retail LLC · disregarded
- Acimco · exempt
- Grace L Woodward Memorial Endowment · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY?
- ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY (Texas) receives grants from 175 organizations whose IRS filings report $84,100,244 to it, the largest being CARIS FOUNDATION ($16,484,500). 107 of them have funded it in more than one year. ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 175 organizations giving $84,100,244 in grants to ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY, 107 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY?
- CARIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $16,484,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 175funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing