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ANDREWS UNIVERSITY

ANDREWS UNIVERSITY (Michigan) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,377,415 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($12,423,498). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$110M
Funders on record
60
Grants received
$17M
Net assets
$208M
37/60 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What Andrews University does

Mission

Education

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Education

    $74,772,668 spent$76,908,648 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $74,772,668.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($95M) Expenses 100 ($89M) Net assets 100 ($144M)2018 Revenue 100 ($94M) Expenses 103 ($92M) Net assets 104 ($149M)2019 Revenue 103 ($97M) Expenses 105 ($94M) Net assets 104 ($150M)2020 Revenue 100 ($95M) Expenses 102 ($91M) Net assets 102 ($147M)2021 Revenue 96 ($90M) Expenses 89 ($80M) Net assets 121 ($174M)2022 Revenue 97 ($91M) Expenses 96 ($85M) Net assets 122 ($175M)2023 Revenue 103 ($97M) Expenses 102 ($91M) Net assets 126 ($181M)2024 Revenue 107 ($102M) Expenses 107 ($95M) Net assets 133 ($191M)2025 Revenue 116 ($110M) Expenses 105 ($94M) Net assets 145 ($208M)
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Revenue (116)Expenses (105)Net assets (145)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $198M to $218M (+11%).

$181M
$190M
$192M
$198M
$218M
$218M
$223M
$239M
$253M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2018 1% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 2% · 2022 3% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

30% of ANDREWS UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (14% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 732 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$5.3M
’17
$2.3M
’18
$3.5M
’19
$3.8M
’20
$10M
’21
$6.0M
’22
$5.7M
’23
$6.4M
’24
$16M
’25
1.1
months of
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.

Chief executive

Charles Bracken

President CEO Getix Health

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed474949444548474946
Joined·+4+2+1+9+7+2+15+8
No longer listed·2268431311
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $70k → $740k.

14 of 60 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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: $15M from 17 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Adventist Health System Sunbelt Healthcare Corporation). These are real filings, and they are not money ANDREWS UNIVERSITY raised.

From the IRS filings of ANDREWS UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 60 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

ANDREWS UNIVERSITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

71%
largest funder
82%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 59% · 2019 22% · 2020 28% · 2021 60% · 2022 86% · 2023 32% — diversifying over time.

“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

36% of ANDREWS UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

ANDREWS UNIVERSITY draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 23 states in all.

IL
WI
MI
NY
OR
NV
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
DE
AZ
AR
TN
NC
DC
OK
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $843k arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ANDREWS UNIVERSITY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 684 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin15% · top quartile
Months of reserve1.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025

Government funding ANDREWS UNIVERSITY receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $13.0M on record.

Federal$13.0M
grants $13.0Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Education$9.8M
  • National Science Foundation$2.0M
  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration$1.1M
  • Department of Defense$140k
  • Department of Commerce$9k

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 ANDREWS 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 Michigan

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 20%Fundraising 0%

Governance

40
board members
98%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Andrews Broadcasting Corp · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds ANDREWS UNIVERSITY?
ANDREWS UNIVERSITY (Michigan) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,377,415 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($12,423,498). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ANDREWS UNIVERSITY have?
IRS filings report 60 organizations giving $17,377,415 in grants to ANDREWS UNIVERSITY, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ANDREWS UNIVERSITY?
LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $12,423,498 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ANDREWS UNIVERSITY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 60 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