Missouri · Nonprofit
Drury University
Drury University (Missouri) receives grants from 98 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,669,854 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,398,311). 59 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $91M
- Funders on record
- 98
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $149M
What Drury University does
Mission
Drury University is an independent university, church-related, grounded in the liberal arts tradition and committed to personalized education in a community of scholars who value the arts of teaching and learning. (Continued on Schedule O)
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Scholarships and Financial Aid: Drury is committed to providing a quality education with lifelong value at an affordable cost. More than 90% of Drury students receive financial aid.
$33,889,661 spentof which $33,889,661 as grants45% of program spendingInstruction: Activities that are part of Drury University's program of instruction that combine professional training with liberal arts education. More than 50 majors are offered to Drury's approximate 1400 full time students as well as approximately 800 students enrolled in evening, online, and graduate programs.
$26,079,261 spent$63,476,768 earned by the program35% of program spendingAuxiliary Enterprises: Activities incurred to provide goods and services to students, faculty and staff and for which fees are charged to cover the approximate costs of the good or service. Includes student housing and food services as the largest components, with Intercollegiate Athletics and other self supporting activities.
$15,009,854 spent$10,017,546 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $74,978,776.
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 2020 to 2021, from $192M to $206M (+7%).
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 8% · 2022 3% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
11% of Drury 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. 1 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
Walter George Iii
Board of trustees - chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 25 funders to 35 funders, grant income rose $1.0M → $1.3M.
16 of 98 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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: $2.3M from 8 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Drury University raised.
From the IRS filings of Drury University’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 98 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
Drury University has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% 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 Drury University.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 38% · 2019 34% · 2020 46% · 2021 36% · 2022 58% · 2023 27% — 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
30% of Drury University's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
Drury University draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 21 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
Drury University's funding base is broadening — from 25 funders to 35 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding Drury University receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $19.6M on record.
- Department of Education$19.6M
- National Science Foundation$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 Drury 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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Drury 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Drury University?
- Drury University (Missouri) receives grants from 98 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,669,854 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,398,311). 59 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Drury University have?
- IRS filings report 98 organizations giving $12,669,854 in grants to Drury University, 59 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Drury University?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,398,311 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Drury University find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
Play a game about who funds Drury University →
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 98 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