Kentucky · Nonprofit
FRONTIER NURSING UNIVERSITY INC
FRONTIER NURSING UNIVERSITY INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,775,989 to it, the largest being Virginia Clark Hagan Charitable Foundation Inc ($290,000). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $50M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $110M
What Frontier Nursing University Inc does
Mission
See schedule o. Our mission is to provide a high-quality education that prepares nurses to become competent, entrepreneurial, ethical and compassionate nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to work with all people, with an emphasis on rural and underserved communities. We transform the health and well-being of individuals, families, and populations, and to promote healthcare equity by increasing access to highly skilled nurse-midwives and advanced practice nurses.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Frontier nursing university (fnu) has been providing quality education to nurses seeking advanced degrees since 1939. Fnu offers a high-quality education that prepares nurses to become competent, entrepreneurial, ethical and compassionate nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners who will provide primary care for women and families residing in all areas, with a focus on rural and medically underserved populations. Fnu fulfills our mission by operating accredited distance education programs, which allow nurses from across the nation to achieve their higher education dreams without leaving their work or home. The primary tenet is healthcare professionals who are educated in their communities will remain to serve their home communities.(continued on schedule o)fnu currently offers the following programs: - a post-masters doctor of nursing practice (dnp) degree for nurse practitioners and nurse-midwives. - a master of science in nursing (msn) + companion dnp program with four tracks as options: nurse-midwife, family nurse practitioner, women's health care nurse practitioner, and psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner.since achieving institutional accreditation in 2004, total…
$25,588,962 spentof which $1,286,390 as grants$44,506,827 earned by the program75% of program spendingAcademic support: frontier nursing university takes a multi-layered, collaborative approach to academic advising. In addition to the faculty who are with students every step of the way in the coursework, fnu assigns each student an academic advisor and a regional clinical faculty member (rcf) to provide support and direction from the point of admission until the student finishes their degree.frontier has a wide network of student support, both internally and externally, which coordinates to ensure student success. Whether students are still ironing out their professional goals, need assistance locating a preceptor for clinicals, or want to talk to(continued on schedule o)someone about adapting their course schedule, an fnu faculty or staff member is never far away!
$3,701,147 spent11% of program spendingStudent services and recruiting expenses: includes registrar, financial aid administration, and admissions.
$4,691,172 spent14% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $33,981,281.
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 $94M to $114M (+22%).
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 3% · 2020 3% · 2021 2% · 2022 12% · 2023 2% · 2024 3% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
5% of FRONTIER NURSING UNIVERSITY INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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 10 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $139k → $488k.
10 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 FRONTIER NURSING UNIVERSITY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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
FRONTIER NURSING UNIVERSITY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
39% 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 FRONTIER NURSING UNIVERSITY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 39% · 2019 61% · 2020 24% · 2021 29% · 2022 21% · 2023 20% — diversifying over time.
“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
43% of FRONTIER NURSING UNIVERSITY INC'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
FRONTIER NURSING UNIVERSITY INC draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 17 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $573k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
FRONTIER NURSING UNIVERSITY INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding FRONTIER NURSING UNIVERSITY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $11.6M on record — $11.6M federal, $8k state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$11.6M
- DISTRIBUTION TO INDIVIDUALS$8k
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 FRONTIER NURSING UNIVERSITY INC
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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 17 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Frontier Nursing Service Incorporated Fka Frontier Nursing Service Foundati · exempt
- Perpetual Trust · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRONTIER NURSING UNIVERSITY INC?
- FRONTIER NURSING UNIVERSITY INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,775,989 to it, the largest being Virginia Clark Hagan Charitable Foundation Inc ($290,000). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRONTIER NURSING UNIVERSITY INC have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $1,775,989 in grants to FRONTIER NURSING UNIVERSITY INC, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRONTIER NURSING UNIVERSITY INC?
- Virginia Clark Hagan Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $290,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRONTIER NURSING UNIVERSITY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 42 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