Oregon · Nonprofit
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY (Oregon) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,308,533 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($300,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2021
- $350k
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $0
What Concordia University does
Mission
Concordia is a christian university preparing leaders for the transformation of society. On february 7, 2020 the university board of regents voted to close the university and cease academic operations in 2020. Academic operations ceased in july 2020.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.
Program
The primary purpose is to provide undergraduate and graduate degrees in pertinent areas of study, primarily in the caring professions, that are relevant and in keeping with the mission of the institution, which is concordia is a christian university preparing leaders for the transformation of society.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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.
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 $89M to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base narrowed from 12 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $450k → $2k.
4 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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: $1.2M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Concordia University Foundation). 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). 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
41% 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 44% · 2018 35% · 2019 65% · 2020 41% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% — 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
8% of CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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 FY2022, 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
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY draws 73% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $138k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Government funding CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.6M on record.
- Department of Education$1.6M
- Department of State$6k
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
54% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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 (Oregon) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,308,533 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($300,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $1,308,533 in grants to CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 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 Oregon. 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 FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 28 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