Mississippi · Nonprofit
Belhaven University
Belhaven University (Mississippi) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,043,706 to it, the largest being James W Hood Family Foundation ($2,500,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $59M
- Funders on record
- 48
- Grants received
- $8.0M
- Net assets
- $61M
What Belhaven University does
Mission
Belhaven University prepares students academically and spiritually to serve jesus christ in their careers, in human relationships, and in the world of ideas.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Belhaven University is a christian liberal arts university dedicated to excellence in christian higher education. Belhaven's rich legacy with a christian curriculum is centered on the biblical worldview. This unique worldview curriculum seamlessly intertwines history, literature, art, music, and philosophy into a chronological core curriculum for all incoming freshmen and sophomores. Belhaven has received national recognition for its academic programs and affordability, and the college has earned regional accreditation by the commission on colleges of the southern association of colleges and schools (sacs). Belhaven is nationally accredited in all four of the arts: dance, music, theatre, and visual art. Offering 70 areas of study including academic majors and concentrations and a 13:1 student to faculty ratio for the traditional undergraduate program, belhaven provides a close-knit learning community where students see the college's vision and mission lived out in the lives of faculty members. Accredited online degree programs are also available for students who desire distance learning with a christian curriculum. Belhaven has an enrollment of approximately 6,000 students,…
$48,785,719 spentof which $16,987,256 as grants$49,784,525 earned by the program93% of program spendingAuxiliary expenses-dormitories, cafeteria, vending machines, bookstore and post office.
$3,895,199 spent$6,288,896 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $52,680,918.
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 2020 to 2021, from $67M to $91M (+36%).
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: 2020 1% · 2021 10% · 2022 13% · 2023 13% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
4% of Belhaven University’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
James Hood
Chairman of the board
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $383k → $952k.
13 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 Belhaven University’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 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
Belhaven University has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 32% · 2019 51% · 2020 32% · 2021 33% · 2022 38% · 2023 42% — 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
37% of Belhaven University's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
66% of Belhaven University's grant income comes from Mississippi funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $616k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
Belhaven University's funding base is broadening — from 8 funders to 16 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,065 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding Belhaven University receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15.3M on record — $15.3M federal, $203 state.
- Department of Education$15.3M
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $203
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 Belhaven 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 Mississippi
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
61%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Belhaven 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 Belhaven University?
- Belhaven University (Mississippi) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,043,706 to it, the largest being James W Hood Family Foundation ($2,500,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Belhaven University have?
- IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $8,043,706 in grants to Belhaven University, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Belhaven University?
- James W Hood Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $2,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Belhaven University find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Mississippi. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 48 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