North Carolina · Nonprofit
HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY
HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY (North Carolina) receives grants from 263 organizations whose IRS filings report $76,064,902 to it, the largest being Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ($15,122,500). 153 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
- $502M
- Funders on record
- 263
- Grants received
- $76M
- Net assets
- $1.1B
What High Point University does
Mission
High Point University's inspiring environment, caring people, and engaging education equip graduates for success and significance by cultivating the values, knowledge, mindset, and skills necessary to thrive in a competitive and rapidly changing world. The vision of High Point University is to be a nationally prominent, private institution recognized for the excellence of its academic programs, the depth of its values-based culture, the breadth of its inclusiveness, and the strength of its commitment to equipping students to lead lives of success and significance.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
High Point University is a private, co-ed university committed to providing students with an exceptional education. Hpu serves approximately 5,150 undergraduate students through its phillips school of business, wanek school of natural sciences, webb school of engineering, qubein school of communications, hayworth school of arts & design, school of nursing, stout school of education, congdon school of health sciences, and school of humanities and behavioral sciences.
$320,566,193 spentof which $94,948,154 as grants$367,585,815 earned by the program89% of program spendingThe university, through its norcross graduate school, also serves approximately 1,200 graduate students seeking degrees in business administration, education, athletic training, physician assistant, strategic communication, health sciences, physical therapy and pharmacy.
$41,478,468 spentof which $12,993,991 as grants$62,312,618 earned by the program11% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $362,044,661.
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 2021 to 2022, from $949M to $1.1B (+12%).
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 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 1% · 2022 2% · 2023 2% · 2024 3% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
12% of HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (14% 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 42 funders to 96 funders, grant income rose $3.3M → $5.3M.
57 of 263 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $7.7M from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Winston-Salem Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY raised.
From the IRS filings of HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 263 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
HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 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 HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 47% · 2019 74% · 2020 16% · 2021 12% · 2022 66% · 2023 31% — 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 HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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 HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY'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 $26M that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 31 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50M arriving through sponsors registered in 22 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
HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 684 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $40.7M on record — $40.7M federal, $1k state.
- Department of Education$35.2M
- Department of Health and Human Services$4.0M
- National Science Foundation$1.2M
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$176k
- Corporation for National and Community Service$160k
- Department of State$8k
- DE POSTSECONDARY SCHLRSHP$1k
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 HIGH POINT 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- 1924 Holdings LLC · disregarded
- Hpu Health LLC · disregarded
- Longleaf Pine Realty LLC · disregarded
- Olympus Realty LLC · disregarded
- Lily Pad Investors LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY?
- HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY (North Carolina) receives grants from 263 organizations whose IRS filings report $76,064,902 to it, the largest being Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ($15,122,500). 153 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 HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 263 organizations giving $76,064,902 in grants to HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY, 153 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY?
- Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $15,122,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 263 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