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HENDERSON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION

HENDERSON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION (Arkansas) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,261,822 to it, the largest being CHI ST VINCENT HOSPITAL HOT SPRINGS (FKA MERCY HOSPITAL HOT SPRINGS) ($546,629). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.8M
Funders on record
19
Grants received
$1.3M
Net assets
$33M
8/19 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%
01What it does

What Henderson State University Foundation does

Mission

The foundation's purpose is to receive, solicit, accept and hold, administer, invest and disburse property and funds for the educational mission of henderson state university. The foundation provides hsu with resources not provided by public funds.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. During the year ended june 30, 2024, more than 300 scholarships were awarded to students of henderson state university.

    $595,546 spentof which $595,546 as grants
    27% of program spending
  2. To promote development, growth, expansion, progress, accomplishment of education objectives, development of the physical plant, improvement of faculty and staff and aid to henderson state university. There are more than 35 funds in place to provide support to academic programs and over $2,020,000 million was able to be provided to the university from private support in furtherance of their programmatic work.

    $1,588,138 spentof which $1,427,288 as grants
    73% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,183,684.

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 ($2.5M) Expenses 100 ($1.8M) Net assets 100 ($18M)2018 Revenue 115 ($2.8M) Expenses 88 ($1.6M) Net assets 111 ($19M)2019 Revenue 124 ($3.0M) Expenses 117 ($2.1M) Net assets 120 ($21M)2020 Revenue 150 ($3.7M) Expenses 125 ($2.2M) Net assets 128 ($22M)2021 Revenue 103 ($2.5M) Expenses 148 ($2.6M) Net assets 152 ($27M)2022 Revenue 171 ($4.2M) Expenses 130 ($2.3M) Net assets 141 ($25M)2023 Revenue 59 ($1.5M) Expenses 105 ($1.9M) Net assets 149 ($26M)2024 Revenue 111 ($2.7M) Expenses 138 ($2.5M) Net assets 170 ($30M)2025 Revenue 115 ($2.8M) Expenses 160 ($2.8M) Net assets 187 ($33M)
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Revenue (115)Expenses (160)Net assets (187)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 2020 to 2021, from $22M to $27M (+19%).

$18M
$20M
$21M
$22M
$27M
$25M
$26M
$30M
$33M
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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
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

77% of HENDERSON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$687k
’17
$1.3M
’18
$978k
’19
$1.5M
’20
−$98k
’21
$1.9M
’22
−$415k
’23
$284k
’24
−$13k
’25
8.2
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.

Board chair

Chris M Wewers

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed151515151313121212
Joined·+0+3+4+2+0+1+0+0
No longer listed·03440200
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $248k → $65k.

5 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 HENDERSON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION’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

HENDERSON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

81% 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 HENDERSON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION.

43%
largest funder
73%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 63% · 2019 89% · 2020 70% · 2021 82% · 2022 29% · 2023 46% — 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

45% of HENDERSON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

HENDERSON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION draws 76% of its grant income from funders outside Arkansas, across 8 states in all.

WI
NY
CA
MO
AZ
AR
NC
TX

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

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Arkansas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $443k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

HENDERSON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−0% · below the median
Months of reserve8.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · bottom quartile

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

Organizations like HENDERSON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION

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 Arkansas

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 11%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

67%

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

  • Henderson State University · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds HENDERSON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION?
HENDERSON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION (Arkansas) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,261,822 to it, the largest being CHI ST VINCENT HOSPITAL HOT SPRINGS (FKA MERCY HOSPITAL HOT SPRINGS) ($546,629). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HENDERSON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,261,822 in grants to HENDERSON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HENDERSON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION?
CHI ST VINCENT HOSPITAL HOT SPRINGS (FKA MERCY HOSPITAL HOT SPRINGS) is the largest funder on record, with $546,629 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HENDERSON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arkansas. 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 19 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