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CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY

CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY (California) receives grants from 358 organizations whose IRS filings report $111,461,505 to it, the largest being WM KECK FOUNDATION ($12,525,000). 207 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$758M
Revenue FY2025
358
Funders on record
$111M
Grants received
$1.8B
Net assets
207/358 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%

Against its field

CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 679 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin9% · above the median
Months of reserve2.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 679 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 ($467M) Expenses 100 ($417M) Net assets 100 ($932M)2018 Revenue 111 ($520M) Expenses 108 ($452M) Net assets 110 ($1.0B)2019 Revenue 123 ($575M) Expenses 121 ($504M) Net assets 117 ($1.1B)2020 Revenue 133 ($623M) Expenses 129 ($538M) Net assets 126 ($1.2B)2021 Revenue 136 ($634M) Expenses 126 ($527M) Net assets 150 ($1.4B)2022 Revenue 149 ($698M) Expenses 140 ($583M) Net assets 167 ($1.6B)2023 Revenue 149 ($698M) Expenses 156 ($650M) Net assets 173 ($1.6B)2024 Revenue 166 ($776M) Expenses 163 ($682M) Net assets 186 ($1.7B)2025 Revenue 162 ($758M) Expenses 165 ($690M) Net assets 198 ($1.8B)
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Revenue (162)Expenses (165)Net assets (198)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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 2% · 2021 4% · 2022 2% · 2023 2% · 2024 1% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

7% of CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (14% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 731 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$50M
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$68M
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$71M
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$86M
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$108M
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$114M
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$47M
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$94M
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$68M
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2.5
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02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 95 funders to 110 funders, grant income rose $7.0M → $16M.

41 of 358 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.

Left out of every figure on this page: $7.1M from 23 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Chapman University Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY raised.

From the IRS filings of CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 358 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

CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 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 CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY.

11%
largest funder
29%
top three
~22
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 16% · 2018 16% · 2019 13% · 2020 13% · 2021 15% · 2022 12% · 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

38% of CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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

57% of CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY's grant income comes from California funders.

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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. $26M arriving through sponsors registered in 21 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 358 funders put you typical 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 CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $110.9M on record — $110.8M federal, $128k state.

Federal$110.8M
grants $110.8Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$48.4M
  • Department of Education$31.4M
  • National Science Foundation$14.3M
  • Department of Defense$7.1M
  • Department of Agriculture$4.4M
  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration$2.8M
State$128k
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By state
  • NJ$107k
  • OR$21k

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 CHAPMAN 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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 9%Fundraising 3%

Governance

64
board members
98%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

62%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 15 states

AK
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MI
MA
OR
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Part of a family of 7 related entities

  • Chapman University Charitable Giving LLC · disregarded
  • Chapman Bond Guarantor LLC · disregarded
  • Chapman University Foundation · exempt
  • Chapman University Enterprise Inc · corp_trust
  • Pooled Remainder Unitrust (14) · corp_trust

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHAPMAN 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 CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY?
CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY (California) receives grants from 358 organizations whose IRS filings report $111,461,505 to it, the largest being WM KECK FOUNDATION ($12,525,000). 207 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY have?
IRS filings report 358 organizations giving $111,461,505 in grants to CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY, 207 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY?
WM KECK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $12,525,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHAPMAN 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 358funders 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 September 23, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing