Nebraska · Nonprofit
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY (Nebraska) receives grants from 83 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,908,148 to it, the largest being THRIVENT CHARITABLE IMPACT & INVESTING ($2,246,983). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $80M
- Funders on record
- 83
- Grants received
- $9.9M
- Net assets
- $163M
What Concordia University does
Mission
Concordia University nebraska's mission is to be an excellent academic and christ-centered community equipping men and women for lives of learning, service and leadership in the church and the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Higher education - Concordia University nebraska provides a complete christian liberal arts education. These program service expenses are costs related to educating students in all university programs. 3,821 total student count; 1,244 students received scholarships from the $32,735,543 scholarships awarded; 5 organizations received grants for a total of $13,760 awarded. These two grant categories combined make up the $32,749,303 total grants awarded.
$61,566,896 spentof which $32,749,303 as grants$55,177,227 earned by the program92% of program spendingAuxiliary services - the cost for student room and board. On average Concordia University housed 803 students and 921 used concordia's campus dining services for a plan that allowed 60 meals per semester to 21 meals per week. Meal plans also include dining dollars that may spent at the dining hall, 10:31 coffee shop or at the dog house grill.
$5,136,861 spent$9,300,121 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $66,703,757.
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 $157M to $178M (+13%).
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% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 2% · 2021 7% · 2022 5% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
16% of CONCORDIA 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. 0 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
Dennis Meyer
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 37 funders, grant income rose $319k → $954k.
26 of 83 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Concordia Foundation Nebraska). These are real filings, and they are not money CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY raised.
From the IRS filings of CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 83 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
CONCORDIA 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
62% 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 CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 21% · 2019 24% · 2020 22% · 2021 34% · 2022 18% · 2023 32% — 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
59% of CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
57% of CONCORDIA 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 $4.3M that is directly attributable, 61% of it comes from funders outside Nebraska, across 15 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.7M on record.
- Department of Education$5.7M
- Department of Agriculture$9k
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 CONCORDIA 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 Nebraska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 7 states
Part of a family of 6 related entities
- Concordia Foundation Nebraska · exempt
- Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod · exempt
- Pooled Trust (3) · corp_trust
- Straight Unitrust (57) · corp_trust
- Annuity Trust (6) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CONCORDIA 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 CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY?
- CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY (Nebraska) receives grants from 83 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,908,148 to it, the largest being THRIVENT CHARITABLE IMPACT & INVESTING ($2,246,983). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 83 organizations giving $9,908,148 in grants to CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY, 52 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY?
- THRIVENT CHARITABLE IMPACT & INVESTING is the largest funder on record, with $2,246,983 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. 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 83 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