Texas · Nonprofit
DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY
DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY (Texas) receives grants from 133 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,576,263 to it, the largest being THE NATION FOUNDATION formerly known as JAMES AND SALLY NATION FOUNDATION ($4,333,217). 87 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $178M
- Funders on record
- 133
- Grants received
- $31M
- Net assets
- $245M
What Dallas Baptist University does
Mission
The purpose of Dallas Baptist University is to provide christ-centered quality higher education in the arts, sciences, and professional studies at both the undergraduate and graduate levels to traditional age and adult students in order to produce servant leaders who have the ability to integrate faith and learning through their respective callings.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Instruction - at the core of the mission of the university is the integration of faith and learning. The instruction expenditures of the university reflect the university's desire to provide our students a quality christian higher education at the undergraduate and graduate levels. These expenditures include faculty salaries and benefits.
$77,131,558 spentof which $50,093,457 as grants$107,395,489 earned by the program63% of program spendingStudent services - dbu assists parents and students with programs and services that support students intellectually, physically, spiritually and socially. These services include student testing, dining services, health services, career services and counseling services. Our residence life and recreational life staff provide housing support services and student recreational services to ensure that our students are healthy physically, emotionally and spiritually. Our athletic department is also included in this area and provides support for our student athletes as they represent our university at athletic events. Finally, our registrar's office and financial aid office assist our students in enrolling for the appropriate classes and being able to afford the cost of education. Each of these areas supports the mission of the university to provide an integration of faith and learning and promotes the development of students as servant-leaders.
$30,016,326 spent$6,228,331 earned by the program25% of program spendingAuxiliary services - in order to promote integration of faith and learning in the academic setting, dbu provides auxiliary services to our students in the form of residence halls, apartments, townhomes and dining services. These services create a comfortable environment for academic pursuits while fostering a sense of community among our student population, enrich the college experience and provide leadership opportunities to serve the on-campus student body.
$10,558,622 spent$17,159,104 earned by the program9% of program spendingAcademic support - dbu recognizes the strong correlation between quality academic support and student retention and success. At dbu, academic support is viewed as more than helping students register for classes, etc. It is seen as an opportunity to invest in the lives of students, develop personal and caring relationships with students, and serve as models of servant leadership that students can emulate. In addition to the university's commitment to academic support for dbu students, it helps empower them to attain their personal academic goals.
$4,312,152 spent$139,031 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $122,018,658.
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 2024 to 2025, from $231M to $257M (+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 3% · 2019 3% · 2020 3% · 2021 5% · 2022 8% · 2023 2% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
23% of DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 32 funders to 64 funders, grant income rose $676k → $3.3M.
23 of 133 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 133 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
DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 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 DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 52% · 2019 36% · 2020 40% · 2021 20% · 2022 18% · 2023 23% — 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
46% of DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
88% of DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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
DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 684 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $12.5M on record.
- Department of Education$12.5M
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 DALLAS BAPTIST 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY?
- DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY (Texas) receives grants from 133 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,576,263 to it, the largest being THE NATION FOUNDATION formerly known as JAMES AND SALLY NATION FOUNDATION ($4,333,217). 87 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 133 organizations giving $30,576,263 in grants to DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY, 87 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY?
- THE NATION FOUNDATION formerly known as JAMES AND SALLY NATION FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,333,217 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 133 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