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AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY

AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY (California) receives grants from 149 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,304,250 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($17,594,347). 82 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$229M
Revenue FY2025
149
Funders on record
$39M
Grants received
$214M
Net assets
82/149 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%

Against its field

AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin−4% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−4% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 671 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($316M) Expenses 100 ($319M) Net assets 100 ($173M)2018 Revenue 101 ($321M) Expenses 105 ($336M) Net assets 95 ($165M)2019 Revenue 104 ($328M) Expenses 101 ($321M) Net assets 98 ($170M)2020 Revenue 94 ($298M) Expenses 96 ($305M) Net assets 92 ($160M)2021 Revenue 90 ($285M) Expenses 89 ($282M) Net assets 106 ($184M)2022 Revenue 86 ($273M) Expenses 86 ($274M) Net assets 101 ($175M)2023 Revenue 95 ($302M) Expenses 80 ($254M) Net assets 127 ($220M)2024 Revenue 69 ($220M) Expenses 74 ($237M) Net assets 124 ($214M)2025 Revenue 72 ($229M) Expenses 74 ($237M) Net assets 124 ($214M)
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Revenue (72)Expenses (74)Net assets (124)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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).

This organization
Typical peer · 729 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$2.6M
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$15M
18
$6.6M
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$6.5M
20
$2.5M
21
$949k
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$48M
23
$18M
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$8.3M
25
1.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 46 funders to 45 funders, grant income rose $1.7M → $5.7M.

23 of 149 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)24% 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 149 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 45% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

28% 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.

45%
largest funder
68%
top three
~4
effective funders

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.

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

AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY draws 72% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 31 states in all.

WA
ID
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
DE
AZ
KS
NC
SC
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL

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

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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.

03Its place in the field

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 149 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 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.

Federal$80.9M
grants $80.4Mcontracts $465k
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Top agencies
  • 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
State$41k
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By state
  • 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

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 11%Fundraising 2%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

AK
WA
NV
CA
CO
DC

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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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 AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY?
AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY (California) receives grants from 149 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,304,250 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($17,594,347). 82 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY have?
IRS filings report 149 organizations giving $39,304,250 in grants to AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY, 82 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.

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 149funders 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