Iowa · Nonprofit
GRAND VIEW UNIVERSITY
GRAND VIEW UNIVERSITY (Iowa) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,273,557 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($5,546,038). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $66M
- Funders on record
- 67
- Grants received
- $8.3M
- Net assets
- $74M
What Grand View University does
Mission
Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Instruction & academic support provided for approximately 1,800 full and part time students, including a graduate and working adult population.
$16,032,020 spent$47,387,290 earned by the program29% of program spendingScholarships and grants funded by federal, state, university and private sources were provided to more than 1,600 students.
$24,491,751 spentof which $24,491,751 as grants44% of program spendingStudent services available to students including academic and other counseling services, career development, university pastor, intercollegiate athletics and other services.
$8,968,831 spent$1,114,202 earned by the program16% of program spendingAuxiliary services available to students including room and board.
$6,309,855 spent$9,055,132 earned by the program11% of program spendingManagement fees on the program related portion of the endowment.
$72,626 spent0% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $55,875,083.
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 $115M to $121M (+5%).
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 0% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 2% · 2021 7% · 2022 15% · 2023 3% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
6% of GRAND VIEW UNIVERSITY’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. 5 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
Christian M Murray
Trustee & chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $358k → $4.6M.
11 of 67 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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: $2.4M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn). These are real filings, and they are not money GRAND VIEW UNIVERSITY raised.
From the IRS filings of GRAND VIEW UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 67 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
GRAND VIEW UNIVERSITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 56% · 2019 84% · 2020 51% · 2021 60% · 2022 43% · 2023 91% — growing more concentrated.
“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
21% of GRAND VIEW UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
GRAND VIEW UNIVERSITY draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside Iowa, across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $867k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
GRAND VIEW UNIVERSITY's funding base is broadening — from 13 funders to 25 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding GRAND VIEW UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15.2M on record.
- Department of Education$15.1M
- National Science Foundation$137k
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
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 GRAND VIEW 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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Southeastern Iowa Synod of the Elca · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GRAND VIEW 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 GRAND VIEW UNIVERSITY?
- GRAND VIEW UNIVERSITY (Iowa) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,273,557 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($5,546,038). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GRAND VIEW UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 67 organizations giving $8,273,557 in grants to GRAND VIEW UNIVERSITY, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GRAND VIEW UNIVERSITY?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,546,038 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GRAND VIEW UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 67 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