Illinois · Nonprofit
Greenville College
Greenville College (Illinois) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,329,188 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,795,271). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $23M
- Funders on record
- 45
- Grants received
- $6.3M
- Net assets
- $40M
What Greenville College does
Mission
Greenville College d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Undergraduate and graduate level education services - instruction, scholarships, and other student services: classes are held for approximately 1,100 students. Faculty, instruction, equipment and supplies are provided for the classroom and library. Students are awarded scholarships on the basis of need and academic achievement. Student support services included student development, religious life, student organizations and many other student activities.
$39,119,513 spentof which $17,264,897 as grants$30,405,752 earned by the program90% of program spendingAuxiliary services - food service, textbook services, and residence halls: cafeteria-style dining services are offered in the dining commons and snack bar/grill services are offered in the student union. Textbook rental services are provided to all enrolled students. Eight residence halls and nine student houses provide housing for approximately 675 students.
$4,357,268 spent$7,821,185 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $43,476,781.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2022 to 2023, from $72M to $101M (+40%).
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: 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 5% · 2021 6% · 2022 17% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
39% of Greenville College’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Warren Pettit
Executive Director - Exp Inst Nashville
Board chair
Jerry Hood
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 16 funders, grant income fell $490k → $342k.
11 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 Greenville College’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 45 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
Greenville College has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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
71% 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 Greenville College.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 29% · 2019 33% · 2020 43% · 2021 35% · 2022 56% · 2023 37% — 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
39% of Greenville College's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
66% of Greenville College's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2.1M that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 19 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.2M 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
Greenville College's revenue fell 36% between 2018 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding Greenville College receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.9M on record.
- Department of Education$6.5M
- Department of Commerce$1000k
- Department of Justice$300k
- Department of Agriculture$144k
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 Greenville College
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Part of a family of 7 related entities
- Experience Institute - Nashville LLC · disregarded
- Smart LLC · disregarded
- Experience Institute - Dallas LLC · disregarded
- The Ville Development Company LLC · disregarded
- Experience Institute - Dominican Republic · disregarded
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Greenville College: 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 Greenville College?
- Greenville College (Illinois) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,329,188 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,795,271). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Greenville College have?
- IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $6,329,188 in grants to Greenville College, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Greenville College?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,795,271 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Greenville College find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 45 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