Virginia · Nonprofit
BLUEFIELD UNIVERSITY
BLUEFIELD UNIVERSITY (Virginia) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,387,075 to it, the largest being THE VIRGINIA COLLEGE FUND ($1,526,737). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $30M
- Funders on record
- 67
- Grants received
- $7.4M
- Net assets
- $15M
What Bluefield University does
Mission
To offer a challenging christ-centered liberal arts experience and co-curricular programs that transform students' lives by integrating liberal arts with career-oriented studies and service to god & the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Student instruction and scholarships: grounded in the liberal arts tradition, Bluefield University is at the forefront in understanding the value of science and technology in the 21st century. Bluefield University offers more than 70 academic programs, including over 50 bachelor's degrees, 15 master's degrees and several associates and certificate programs. Students served include traditional students who anticipate needing three to five years to complete their bachelor's degree, the degree completion student who needs fewer hours to complete an undergraduate degree or certificate program and desires to complete online, and the individual that is seeking a master's degree. The university delivers courses on-site/in-person and on-line. Academic support is provided through an academic center for excellence, a library, and academic technology support.
$12,773,992 spentof which $6,506,976 as grants$23,369,899 earned by the program58% of program spendingStudent services: the university's student services areas include the registrar, enrollment management, creative media, financial aid, general student support services, campus security, inter-collegiate and intramural athletics, student extracurricular activities, campus ministry, and retention/student success services.
$5,849,100 spent27% of program spendingAuxiliary enterprises: the university's auxiliary enterprises include student housing, food service, the campus store, and special programs (e.g., summer events).
$3,283,215 spent$3,205,002 earned by the program15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $21,906,307.
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 2018 to 2019, from $26M to $29M (+10%).
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 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 9% · 2021 10% · 2022 9% · 2023 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
10% of BLUEFIELD UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Jackson E Reasor Jr
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $360k → $1.0M.
8 of 67 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 BLUEFIELD UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 67 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
BLUEFIELD UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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
46% 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 BLUEFIELD UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 80% · 2019 44% · 2020 22% · 2021 17% · 2022 24% · 2023 39% — 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
43% of BLUEFIELD UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
BLUEFIELD UNIVERSITY draws 58% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 18 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $615k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
BLUEFIELD UNIVERSITY's funding base is broadening — from 14 funders to 26 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding BLUEFIELD UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.9M on record.
- Department of Education$3.9M
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 BLUEFIELD 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 6 related entities
- Harvey W Peters Research Foundation · exempt
- Marion Bradley Memorial Foundation · exempt
- Via-Bradley College of Engineering Foundation · exempt
- Vc Medical Endowement Trust · exempt
- Edward via Virginia College of Osteopath · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BLUEFIELD UNIVERSITY?
- BLUEFIELD UNIVERSITY (Virginia) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,387,075 to it, the largest being THE VIRGINIA COLLEGE FUND ($1,526,737). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLUEFIELD UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 67 organizations giving $7,387,075 in grants to BLUEFIELD UNIVERSITY, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLUEFIELD UNIVERSITY?
- THE VIRGINIA COLLEGE FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,526,737 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLUEFIELD UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 67 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