Indiana · Nonprofit
ANDERSON UNIVERSITY INC
ANDERSON UNIVERSITY INC (Indiana) receives grants from 77 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,552,373 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($5,445,000). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $61M
- Funders on record
- 77
- Grants received
- $17M
- Net assets
- $74M
What Anderson University Inc does
Mission
The mission of Anderson University is to educate for a life of faith and service in the church and society. Established and sustained within the free and open traditions of the Church of God, this university is committed to being a teaching-learning community of the highest order, engaged in the pursuit of truth from a Christian faith perspective. Through academic and Christian discovery, we intend to graduate people with a global perspective who are competent, caring, creative, generous individuals of character and potential. We will build those quality programs that will enable each member of the university to become stronger in body, mind, and spirit, to experience what it means to love God and neighbor, and to adopt Christ like servant ways in all of life. The mission statement and supporting statements were adopted by the Board of Trustees in 2007.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Higher education: General educational activities serving 1,153 students during the 2023-24 school year. AU students benefit from the expertise of 81 full-time and 84 part-time faculty members. Anderson University continues to be recognized as one of America's top colleges by US News & World Report and Colleges of Distinction. Three of the university's programs received "badges of distinction": Business, Education, and Nursing. The University has long had a strong undergraduate liberal arts curriculum. The University's MBA, Master's in Christian Ministry, and Master of Divinity programs are also offered through online/hybrid classes.
$56,230,458 spentof which $22,740,445 as grants$41,673,765 earned by the program95% of program spendingHigher education: Auxiliary enterprise primarily involving residence halls, food services, Student Health Services, Mail Center, and bookstore activities supporting the educational program. We believe that on-campus living is an integral part of the college experience. In our residence halls, we are committed to offering not only a safe and comfortable place to live, but also an environment that promises to both challenge and support our students as they grow physically, academically, socially, and spiritually. Anderson University Food Services provides friendly service and great variety in four different locations across campus: The Marketplace, Raven's Haven, Create, and Mocha Joe's. Student Health Services provides medical assistance to students and is operated by Community Health Network.
$2,709,163 spent$9,477,698 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $58,939,621.
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 2022 to 2023, from $135M to $124M (−9%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 9% · 2021 6% · 2022 7% · 2023 11% · 2024 1% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
9% of ANDERSON UNIVERSITY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Rev Doug Tally
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $314k → $4.1M.
23 of 77 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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: $403k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Madison County Community Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money ANDERSON UNIVERSITY INC raised.
From the IRS filings of ANDERSON UNIVERSITY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 77 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 INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
48% 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 INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 26% · 2019 17% · 2020 70% · 2021 35% · 2022 46% · 2023 55% — 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
32% of ANDERSON UNIVERSITY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
90% of ANDERSON UNIVERSITY INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.5M 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.
Against its field
ANDERSON UNIVERSITY INC's funding base is broadening — from 17 funders to 22 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding ANDERSON UNIVERSITY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.1M on record.
- Department of Education$8.1M
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 INC
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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Anderson University Properties LLC · disregarded
- Anderson University Center for Security Studies and Cyber Defense LLC · disregarded
- Independent Colleges of Indiana Inc · exempt
- Charitable Remainder Unitrust (15) · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ANDERSON UNIVERSITY INC?
- ANDERSON UNIVERSITY INC (Indiana) receives grants from 77 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,552,373 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($5,445,000). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ANDERSON UNIVERSITY INC have?
- IRS filings report 77 organizations giving $16,552,373 in grants to ANDERSON UNIVERSITY INC, 40 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ANDERSON UNIVERSITY INC?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,445,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ANDERSON UNIVERSITY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 77 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