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Baldwin Wallace University

Baldwin Wallace University (Ohio) receives grants from 162 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,243,871 to it, the largest being THE AUSTIN E KNOWLTON FOUNDATION INC ($8,500,000). 97 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$165M
Funders on record
162
Grants received
$30M
Net assets
$307M
97/162 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What Baldwin Wallace University does

Mission

Baldwin Wallace University is an academic community committed to the liberal arts and sciences as the foundation for lifelong learning. The university fulfills this mission through a rigorous academic program that is characterized by excellence in teaching and learning. It maintains a challenging, supportive environment that enhances students' intellectual and spiritual growth. Baldwin wallace assists students in their preparation to become contributing, compassionate citizens of an increasingly global society and encourages their pursuit of personal and professional excellence.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Merit scholarships and need-based financial aid grants to students actively enrolled in the university.

    $62,670,032 spentof which $62,670,032 as grants
    44% of program spending
  2. Education of 2,770 full-time undergraduate students, 1103 part-time undergraduates, and 445 graduate students, plus certificate programs and faculty scholarly research. Undergraduate degrees offered are the bachelor of arts, bachelor of fine arts, bachelor of science, bachelor of science in education, bachelor of music, bachelor of music education, and bachelor of science in nursing. The graduate programs lead to the degrees of master of accountancy, master of arts in education, master of business administration, master of medical science (physician assistant), master of public health, and master of science (speech language pathology and exercise physiology).

    $61,471,028 spent$120,407,561 earned by the program
    43% of program spending
  3. Auxiliary services and activities for students, including residence halls housing 1,377 full-time students, dining halls, bookstore, athletics, student union, recreation center, and health center.

    $19,851,075 spent$15,662,574 earned by the program
    14% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $143,992,135.

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 ($145M) Expenses 100 ($140M) Net assets 100 ($295M)2018 Revenue 110 ($160M) Expenses 100 ($140M) Net assets 108 ($319M)2019 Revenue 98 ($142M) Expenses 104 ($146M) Net assets 109 ($321M)2020 Revenue 105 ($152M) Expenses 107 ($149M) Net assets 106 ($314M)2021 Revenue 102 ($148M) Expenses 104 ($146M) Net assets 121 ($357M)2022 Revenue 101 ($146M) Expenses 112 ($157M) Net assets 107 ($317M)2023 Revenue 102 ($147M) Expenses 117 ($163M) Net assets 104 ($307M)2024 Revenue 113 ($163M) Expenses 122 ($171M) Net assets 101 ($299M)2025 Revenue 114 ($165M) Expenses 120 ($168M) Net assets 104 ($307M)
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Revenue (114)Expenses (120)Net assets (104)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 $363M to $400M (+10%).

$324M
$358M
$364M
$363M
$400M
$366M
$365M
$354M
$347M
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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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 3% · 2021 9% · 2022 5% · 2023 1% · 2024 2% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

8% of Baldwin Wallace University’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$4.9M
’17
$19M
’18
−$3.4M
’19
$2.6M
’20
$1.9M
’21
−$11M
’22
−$16M
’23
−$8.0M
’24
−$3.4M
’25
1.5
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.

Board chair

Lee Thomas

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed535458595948525757
Joined·+7+11+10+3+5+8+10+9
No longer listed·679316459
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 27 funders to 68 funders, grant income rose $692k → $4.1M.

29 of 162 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 Baldwin Wallace University’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 162 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

Baldwin Wallace University has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

28%
largest funder
49%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 22% · 2019 45% · 2020 44% · 2021 42% · 2022 27% · 2023 22% — 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

46% of Baldwin Wallace University's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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

85% of Baldwin Wallace University's grant income comes from Ohio funders.

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

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Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.3M 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Baldwin Wallace University's funding base is broadening — from 27 funders to 68 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−2% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.5mo · 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 Baldwin Wallace University receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $26.8M on record — $26.8M federal, $43k state.

Federal$26.8M
grants $26.8Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Education$23.3M
  • National Science Foundation$2.7M
  • Department of Energy$500k
  • National Endowment for the Humanities$185k
  • Environmental Protection Agency$24k
State$43k
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By state
  • NJ$40k
  • OK$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 Baldwin Wallace 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 Ohio

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 12%Fundraising 2%

Governance

41
board members
98%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

82%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 7 states

NH
MI
MA
OH
CO
MD
SC

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Nc Housing LLC · partnership
  • Nc Housing Master Tenant LLC · partnership
  • Nc Housing Managing Member LLC · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds Baldwin Wallace University?
Baldwin Wallace University (Ohio) receives grants from 162 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,243,871 to it, the largest being THE AUSTIN E KNOWLTON FOUNDATION INC ($8,500,000). 97 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Baldwin Wallace University have?
IRS filings report 162 organizations giving $30,243,871 in grants to Baldwin Wallace University, 97 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Baldwin Wallace University?
THE AUSTIN E KNOWLTON FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $8,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Baldwin Wallace University find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 162 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