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EVANGELIA UNIVERSITY

EVANGELIA UNIVERSITY (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,012,580 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($1,000,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.2M
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$1.0M
Net assets
$798k
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Evangelia University does

Mission

School of Theology The university educates and supports students to become reformed leaders by providing sufficient knowledge, skills, and proficiency. For this institutional purpose, the university has provided the most effective academic programs and structures.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The school was successful in training and graduating students for the ministry and in providing education on various christian.

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($635k) Expenses 100 ($615k) Net assets 100 ($724k)2021 Revenue 113 ($715k) Expenses 101 ($623k) Net assets 133 ($964k)2022 Revenue 116 ($734k) Expenses 118 ($724k) Net assets 128 ($923k)2023 Revenue 81 ($514k) Expenses 119 ($728k) Net assets 103 ($744k)2024 Revenue 112 ($710k) Expenses 111 ($679k) Net assets 105 ($761k)2025 Revenue 187 ($1.2M) Expenses 181 ($1.1M) Net assets 110 ($798k)
201720212022202320242025
Revenue (187)Expenses (181)Net assets (110)Peer revenue range

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 $1.7M to $1.8M (+6%).

$1.6M
$1.8M
$1.7M
$1.8M
$1.8M
$1.8M
201720212022202320242025
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
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

45% of EVANGELIA UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$20k
’17
$93k
’21
$10k
’22
−$214k
’23
$31k
’24
$79k
’25
1.6
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.

201720212022202320242025
Listed333322
Joined··+0+0··
No longer listed··00··
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $1k.

Funder
'20
'22
'25*
total
funders
1
1
2

From the IRS filings of EVANGELIA 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

EVANGELIA UNIVERSITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

99%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 100% — 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.

Where its funders are

EVANGELIA UNIVERSITY draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 3 states in all.

NY
IN
CA

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

’20
’22
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

Against its field

EVANGELIA UNIVERSITY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin7% · above the median
Months of reserve1.6mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like EVANGELIA 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 California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

70% of spending goes to programs.

Program 70%Management 30%Fundraising 0%

Governance

17
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EVANGELIA 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 EVANGELIA UNIVERSITY?
EVANGELIA UNIVERSITY (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,012,580 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($1,000,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does EVANGELIA UNIVERSITY have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $1,012,580 in grants to EVANGELIA UNIVERSITY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of EVANGELIA UNIVERSITY?
LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like EVANGELIA UNIVERSITY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 3 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