Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
CLARKS SUMMIT UNIVERSITY
CLARKS SUMMIT UNIVERSITY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $464,898 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($107,600). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $465k
- Net assets
- $-1559041
What Clarks Summit University does
Mission
Clarks Summit University is a fully accredited, christ-centered educational institution located in a suburban area of the scranton/wilkes-barre, pa metropolitan area. Outstanding biblical higher education is offered through on-campus, online, and other distance learning options. Students learn to serve and lead as they gain critical leadership and life skills. Our students, faculty, and staff contribute to a better quality of life in northeastern pennsylvania and around the world. Our scenic 114-acre campus includes 17 major buildings, athletic facilities, and a 4 1/2-acre lake. Nearly 13,000 people have earned degrees and have lived in all 50 states and as many foreign countries.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Revenue from tuition and fees pays for a range of teaching, materials, administrative, and technical expenses. With nearly 1,100 students, Clarks Summit University offers studies from a one-year bible certificate to full doctorate programs. Undergraduate majors range from intercultural youth ministries and worship pastor to business administration and teacher education. The college and seminary staff includes 23 full-time faculty, 16 of whom hold terminal doctorate degrees. Accreditation is provided by both the commission on higher education of the middle states association of colleges and schools and the association for biblical higher education. All degrees are approved by the commonwealth of pennsylvania. More than 95 percent of undergraduate students receive some form of financial aid.
$738,526 spent$319,773 earned by the program43% of program spendingAuxiliary enterprises include room, board, cafe and other ancillary functions of the institution.
$975,389 spent$223,052 earned by the program57% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,713,915.
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 2022 to 2023, from $12M to $9.7M (−21%).
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 1% · 2019 2% · 2020 12% · 2021 17% · 2022 24% · 2023 2% · 2024 2% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
29% of CLARKS SUMMIT UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% 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.
Chief executive
Allen Dreyer
Executive director for adm
Board chair
Matt Calderon
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $58k → $61k.
5 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 CLARKS SUMMIT UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
CLARKS SUMMIT UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
70% 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 CLARKS SUMMIT UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 58% · 2019 59% · 2020 49% · 2021 46% · 2022 64% · 2023 33% — 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
27% of CLARKS SUMMIT UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
55% of CLARKS SUMMIT UNIVERSITY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $210k that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $255k 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
CLARKS SUMMIT UNIVERSITY's revenue fell 87% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CLARKS SUMMIT UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.7M on record.
- Department of Education$2.7M
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 CLARKS SUMMIT 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
52% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Bbc Foundation Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CLARKS SUMMIT UNIVERSITY?
- CLARKS SUMMIT UNIVERSITY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $464,898 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($107,600). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CLARKS SUMMIT UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $464,898 in grants to CLARKS SUMMIT UNIVERSITY, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CLARKS SUMMIT UNIVERSITY?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $107,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CLARKS SUMMIT UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 18 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing