South Carolina · Nonprofit
ANDERSON UNIVERSITY
ANDERSON UNIVERSITY (South Carolina) receives grants from 102 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,968,930 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($1,100,000). 64 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $177M
- Funders on record
- 102
- Grants received
- $9.0M
- Net assets
- $196M
What Anderson University does
Mission
The university is a comprehensive university affiliated with the south carolina baptist convention offering bachelors, masters, and doctorate degrees. Located on approximately 398 acres in the upstate region of south carolina near the foothills of the appalachians, the university features a rigorous education in a supportive christian atmosphere. The organization offers 64 baccalaureate majors, 43 major-embedded concentrations, as well as 56 minors and two undergraduate certificates. The organization also offers 22 master degrees and 7 graduate certificate programs in the fields of business, christian studies, computer science, criminal justice, cybersecurity, education, music education, nursing, and pathology. At the post-master's level, the organization offers 11 doctoral programs: doctor of ministry, doctor of nursing practice (four), doctor of physical therapy, doctor of philosophy in leadership, doctor of philosophy in preaching, and doctor of education (three).
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The university is a comprehensive university affiliated with the south carolina baptist convention offering bachelors, masters, and doctorate degrees. Located on approximately 398 acres in the upstate region of south carolina near the foothills of the appalachians, the university features a rigorous education in a supportive christian atmosphere. The main sourcesof revenue are tuition, fee, and auxiliary enterprise income as well as contributions from the public.the organization offers 64 baccalaureate majors, 43 major-embedded concentrations, as well as 56 minors and two undergraduate certificates. The organization also offers 22 master degrees and 7 graduate certificate programs in the fields of business, christian studies, computer science, criminal justice, cybersecurity, education, music education, nursing, and pathology. At the post-master's level, the organization offers 11 doctoral programs: doctor of ministry, doctor of nursing practice (four), doctor of physical therapy, doctor of philosophy in leadership, doctor of philosophy in preaching, and doctor of education (three).highlights of the 2024-2024 fiscal year - historic enrollment, major transformation underway at…
$120,439,788 spentof which $54,856,472 as grants$120,648,067 earned by the program87% of program spendingAuxiliary enterprise revenue: auxiliary enterprises exist to furnish goods or services to students, faculty, staff, or incidentally to the general public. Fees charged for auxiliary enterprises are priced to offset the cost of the goods or services provided. The distinguishing characteristic of auxiliary enterprises is that they are managed as an essentially self-supporting activity. Revenues and expenses from auxiliary enterprises are reported as changes in net assets without donor restrictions.auxiliary enterprises revenue includes activities for student housing and dining facilities. A small number of institutional scholarships specifically for defraying the costs of residential services are awarded, which reduce the amount of revenue recognized. Payments for housing and dining services are due approximately by the start of the academic term. Dining plans are not offered during the summer term. Performance obligations for housing and dining services are delivered over the academic terms. Consequently, associated revenues are earned and recognized over the course of each term as the services are delivered.
$17,684,529 spent$23,396,684 earned by the program13% of program spendingOther program revenue that includes, but is not limited to, commissions from sales of student related items, perkins debt service, ticket sales for athletic and theatre events, and magazine subscription revenue.
$47,487 spent$2,724,286 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $138,171,804.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $214M to $270M (+26%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 2% · 2021 9% · 2022 4% · 2023 1% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
15% of ANDERSON UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 44 funders, grant income rose $160k → $2.6M.
18 of 102 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ANDERSON UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 102 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.
How concentrated its funding is
ANDERSON UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
32% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ANDERSON UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 19% · 2019 19% · 2020 16% · 2021 16% · 2022 18% · 2023 42% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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.
How long its funders stay
40% of ANDERSON UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
ANDERSON UNIVERSITY draws 55% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 26 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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.
Against its field
ANDERSON UNIVERSITY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 684 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding ANDERSON UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $12.2M on record — $12.2M federal, $146 state.
- Department of Education$11.5M
- National Science Foundation$506k
- Environmental Protection Agency$200k
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $146
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.
Organizations like ANDERSON UNIVERSITY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 51 states
Part of a family of 14 related entities
- South Carolina Baptist Convention · exempt
- The Baptist Foundation of South Carolina · exempt
- Anderson University Foundation · exempt
- Baptist Foundation- Anderson University Endowment 10154000 · corp_trust
- Baptist Foundation- Francis Marion Warden Scholarship Trust · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ANDERSON UNIVERSITY?
- ANDERSON UNIVERSITY (South Carolina) receives grants from 102 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,968,930 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($1,100,000). 64 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ANDERSON UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 102 organizations giving $8,968,930 in grants to ANDERSON UNIVERSITY, 64 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ANDERSON UNIVERSITY?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ANDERSON UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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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 102 funders 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 October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing