California · Nonprofit
AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY
AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY (California) receives grants from 152 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,384,616 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($17,594,347). 83 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $229M
- Funders on record
- 152
- Grants received
- $40M
- Net assets
- $214M
What Azusa Pacific University does
Mission
Apu is an evangelical christian community of disciples and scholars who seek to advance the work of god through academic excellence in liberal arts and professional programs of higher education that encourage development of a christian perspective of truth and life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Tuition & fees: Azusa Pacific University is an evangelical christian community of disciples and scholars who seek to advance the work of god in the world through academic excellence in liberal arts and professional programs of higher education that encourage students to develop a christian perspective of truth and life. With 59 bachelor's degrees, 37 master's degrees, 27 certificates, 8 credentials, and 7 doctoral programs, the university offers its more than 6,200 students a quality education on campus, online, and at six regional centers throughout southern california.
$197,481,503 spentof which $57,079,180 as grants$174,152,703 earned by the program96% of program spendingAuxiliary enterprises & other program revenue: the university provides, in addition to quality instruction, student life programs, facilities for the students, and activities to further promote the educational experience of students at the university.
$8,174,513 spent$18,834,712 earned by the program4% of program spendingOutreach ministries: outreach ministries help the university fulfill its mission of advancing the work of god in the world and encouraging students to develop a christian perspective of truth and life. The institute for outreach ministries facilitates trips to other countries.
$302,501 spent$178,564 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: $205,958,517.
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 $365M to $417M (+14%).
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 1% · 2019 2% · 2020 3% · 2021 9% · 2022 6% · 2023 2% · 2024 4% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
12% of AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Lucie Moore
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 46 funders to 45 funders, grant income rose $1.7M → $5.7M.
24 of 152 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 152 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
AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
27% 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 AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 56% · 2019 39% · 2020 35% · 2021 35% · 2022 74% · 2023 53% — 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
30% of AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 31 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $80.9M on record — $80.9M federal, $41k state.
- Department of Education$40.1M
- Department of Health and Human Services$38.7M
- National Science Foundation$942k
- Department of Defense$465k
- Department of Justice$400k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$250k
- NJ$35k
- OR$4k
- CT$2k
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 AZUSA PACIFIC 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 6 states
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Azusa Pacific Holdings LLC · disregarded
- Los Angeles Pacific University · exempt
- Azusa Ensenada S de Rl de Cv Co Jose Luis Perez Rocha · partnership
- Azusa Pacific Mexicali S de Rl de Cv · partnership
- Charitable Remainder Trusts (43) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AZUSA PACIFIC 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY?
- AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY (California) receives grants from 152 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,384,616 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($17,594,347). 83 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 152 organizations giving $40,384,616 in grants to AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY, 83 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $17,594,347 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 152 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