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CROWN COLLEGE

CROWN COLLEGE (Minnesota) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,271,909 to it, the largest being LORD'S BOUNTIFUL BLESSINGS FNDN AGY ($1,150,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$35M
Funders on record
37
Grants received
$5.3M
Net assets
$30M
18/37 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Crown College does

Mission

The mission of Crown College is to provide a biblically based education for christian leadership in the christian and missionary alliance, the church-at-large, and the world.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Our classes will equip you with professional skills while integrating those tools with your life's purpose. As you learn what roles you have been created for, we'll help you see how that fits into a career. To prepare you academically for life's calling, Crown College offers over 25 undergraduate degree programs as well as opportunities to study abroad and to be part of a great honors program. Crown had over 650 students enrolled in the undergraduate studies program and graduated over 100 students.

    $23,211,035 spentof which $8,772,692 as grants$18,825,207 earned by the program
    78% of program spending
  2. Crown College's school of online studies & graduate school offers you the opportunity to learn in the convenience of your own home! Our christian bachelor and graduate degree programs in minnesota can be completed online, providing the convenience of earning a quality education wherever you live and serve, with the support of outstanding professors and online classmates. The uniquely designed cohort models in our christian online degree programs provide a supportive environment for learning and the opportunity to form lasting relationships with other students. If you are looking for christian colleges in minnesota or want to earn an online degree in business, leadership, psychology or christian studies, it's time to consider Crown College.

    $3,182,410 spentof which $984,790 as grants$6,082,519 earned by the program
    11% of program spending
  3. Auxiliary expenditures (food service, residence, college store) in support of student education.

    $3,396,866 spent$4,846,373 earned by the program
    11% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $29,790,311.

02The 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($24M) Expenses 100 ($24M) Net assets 100 ($19M)2018 Revenue 101 ($25M) Expenses 100 ($24M) Net assets 105 ($20M)2019 Revenue 105 ($26M) Expenses 105 ($25M) Net assets 110 ($21M)2020 Revenue 104 ($25M) Expenses 101 ($24M) Net assets 118 ($22M)2021 Revenue 114 ($28M) Expenses 104 ($25M) Net assets 143 ($27M)2022 Revenue 115 ($28M) Expenses 116 ($28M) Net assets 138 ($26M)2023 Revenue 132 ($32M) Expenses 126 ($30M) Net assets 154 ($29M)2024 Revenue 137 ($33M) Expenses 138 ($33M) Net assets 161 ($30M)2025 Revenue 142 ($35M) Expenses 147 ($35M) Net assets 161 ($30M)
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Revenue (142)Expenses (147)Net assets (161)

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 $37M to $48M (+30%).

$32M
$32M
$33M
$35M
$38M
$37M
$48M
$50M
$49M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 3% · 2021 8% · 2022 9% · 2023 12% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$739k
’17
$1.1M
’18
$938k
’19
$1.5M
’20
$3.3M
’21
$549k
’22
$2.3M
’23
$788k
’24
−$182k
’25
1.1
months of
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

Peter Mattson

Executive director of marketing

Board chair

Greg Kummer

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed232421222324212626
Joined·+1+6+4+2+3+3+8+6
No longer listed·09312636
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $68k → $734k.

7 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 CROWN COLLEGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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

CROWN COLLEGE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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

32% 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 CROWN COLLEGE.

22%
largest funder
58%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 38% · 2019 54% · 2020 66% · 2021 49% · 2022 43% · 2023 55% — broadly stable.

“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

29% of CROWN COLLEGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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 CROWN COLLEGE's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.

MT
ND
MN
WI
MI
NY
SD
IA
IN
PA
CA
MD
AZ
KS
DC
HI
OK
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
’22
’23
Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding CROWN COLLEGE receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.1M on record — $3.1M federal, $758 state.

Federal$3.1M
grants $3.1Mcontracts $0
20
21
Top agencies
  • Department of Education$3.1M
State$758
Top programs
  • REFUNDS - GENERAL $758

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 CROWN COLLEGE

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 14%Fundraising 1%

Governance

19
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

81%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 2 states

MN
CO

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Questions and answers

Who funds CROWN COLLEGE?
CROWN COLLEGE (Minnesota) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,271,909 to it, the largest being LORD'S BOUNTIFUL BLESSINGS FNDN AGY ($1,150,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CROWN COLLEGE have?
IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $5,271,909 in grants to CROWN COLLEGE, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CROWN COLLEGE?
LORD'S BOUNTIFUL BLESSINGS FNDN AGY is the largest funder on record, with $1,150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CROWN COLLEGE 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 37 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