Texas · Nonprofit
HOWARD PAYNE UNIVERSITY
HOWARD PAYNE UNIVERSITY (Texas) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,009,117 to it, the largest being J A WALKER TRUST # 2 ($1,714,795). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $46M
- Funders on record
- 61
- Grants received
- $8.0M
- Net assets
- $137M
What Howard Payne University does
Mission
Howard Payne University is a christ-centered academic community dedicated to excellence by developing and equipping the whole person for intellectual inquiry, personal and professional integrity, and service to god and humanity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Post-secondary education instruction: Howard Payne University (hpu) offers a full array of undergraduate programs and four graduate programs in a traditional residential academic community. The university also offers selected undergraduate and graduate course work by electronic means and at extended learning centers in el paso and new braunfels. Students at hpu choose from more than 100 majors, minors and pre-professional programs in seven schools: business, christian studies, education, humanities, music and fine arts, nursing, and science and mathematics. The guy d. Newman honors academy challenges students with a multidisciplinary curriculum and exciting travel opportunities.
$20,379,302 spentof which $12,281,962 as grants$21,988,359 earned by the program64% of program spendingStudent services: hpu is committed to providing students with a wide range of opportunities for learning within and beyond the classroom. Student engagement in campus life is designed to help students grow in relationship to christ, develop leadership skills, build relationships, participate in service to the campus and community, exhibit personal responsibility, and have fun. These services include admissions, athletics/intramurals, baptist student ministry, chapel, cheerleading, the collegium (tutoring, academic testing, advising, career services and learning assistance), counseling and health services, hpu's department of public safety, financial aid, the food and essentials pantry, the library, mail services, new-student orientation, residence life, student activities, student conduct, student government, student organizations, the wellness center, the jacket closet, and more.
$7,776,739 spent$281,441 earned by the program24% of program spendingAuxiliary enterprises: hpu's auxiliary programs provide essential services to students. These programs include dining services (two on-campus dining locations and stinger bucks to use at off-campus restaurants) and several housing options. These on-campus facilities include one women's residence hall, two men's residence halls, a newly renovated student apartment complex, and eight duplex apartments.
$2,911,922 spent$3,511,161 earned by the program9% of program spendingProvide academic support through library and various academic departments of the university.
$944,554 spent3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $32,012,517.
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 2022 to 2023, from $112M to $132M (+18%).
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 6% · 2021 11% · 2022 10% · 2023 4% · 2024 12% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
30% of HOWARD PAYNE UNIVERSITY’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. 1 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 12 funders to 34 funders, grant income rose $346k → $1.9M.
10 of 61 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 HOWARD PAYNE UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 61 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
HOWARD PAYNE UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 36% · 2019 39% · 2020 34% · 2021 21% · 2022 45% · 2023 54% — 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
58% of HOWARD PAYNE UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
93% of HOWARD PAYNE UNIVERSITY's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M 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
HOWARD PAYNE UNIVERSITY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding HOWARD PAYNE UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.7M on record.
- Department of Education$6.7M
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 HOWARD PAYNE 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
57%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Highground Advisors · exempt
- Baptist General Convention of Texas · exempt
- Charitable Remainder Unitrusts (5) · corp_trust
- Charitable Remainder Annuity Trust (1) · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HOWARD PAYNE UNIVERSITY?
- HOWARD PAYNE UNIVERSITY (Texas) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,009,117 to it, the largest being J A WALKER TRUST # 2 ($1,714,795). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOWARD PAYNE UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 61 organizations giving $8,009,117 in grants to HOWARD PAYNE UNIVERSITY, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOWARD PAYNE UNIVERSITY?
- J A WALKER TRUST # 2 is the largest funder on record, with $1,714,795 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOWARD PAYNE UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 61 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