Minnesota · Nonprofit
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY ST PAUL
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY ST PAUL (Minnesota) receives grants from 77 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,972,570 to it, the largest being SANDT KURT TRUST ($3,298,796). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $124M
- Funders on record
- 77
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $170M
What Concordia University St Paul does
Mission
The mission of Concordia University, St. Paul, a university of The Lutheran Church -- Missouri Synod, is to prepare students for thoughtful and informed living, for dedicated service to God and humanity, for enlightened care of God's creation, all within the context of the Christian Gospel.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Higher education: financial aid to assist students unable to pay fully for the liberal arts or religious education and support programs.
$18,788,434 spentof which $18,788,434 as grants20% of program spendingHigher education: Auxiliary enterprises such as student housing, food service, facility rentals and the bookstore.
$5,650,821 spent$8,323,989 earned by the program6% of program spendingHigher education: educational and instructional divisions including support programs devoted to the liberal arts and/or religious education, encouragement and understanding
$69,916,054 spent74% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $94,355,309.
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 $152M to $168M (+11%).
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 3% · 2018 4% · 2020 6% · 2021 6% · 2022 7% · 2023 2% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $427k → $841k.
22 of 77 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY ST PAUL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 77 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 ST PAUL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
44% 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 ST PAUL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 54% · 2019 44% · 2020 37% · 2021 56% · 2022 36% · 2023 42% — 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 CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY ST PAUL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY ST PAUL draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 21 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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 ST PAUL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $11.4M on record.
- Department of Education$11.4M
- Department of State$13k
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 ST PAUL
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% 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 ST PAUL: 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 ST PAUL?
- CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY ST PAUL (Minnesota) receives grants from 77 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,972,570 to it, the largest being SANDT KURT TRUST ($3,298,796). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY ST PAUL have?
- IRS filings report 77 organizations giving $10,972,570 in grants to CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY ST PAUL, 43 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY ST PAUL?
- SANDT KURT TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $3,298,796 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY ST PAUL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 77 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