Kansas · Nonprofit
The Kansas University Endowment Association
The Kansas University Endowment Association (Kansas) receives grants from 342 organizations whose IRS filings report $212,780,337 to it, the largest being Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ($49,417,992). 216 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $375M
- Funders on record
- 342
- Grants received
- $213M
- Net assets
- $3.1B
What The Kansas University Endowment Association does
Mission
KU Endowment partners with donors in providing philanthropic support to build a greater University of Kansas.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Program and other educational support from private donors strengthens academic programs and brings top-flight scholars, thoughtful lecturers and breathtaking performances to KU. It also expands the scope of outreach programs throughout the state and supports valuable acquisitions by KU's libraries and museums.
$86,937,656 spentof which $86,937,656 as grants$11,402,203 earned by the program20% of program spendingFaculty support includes over 200 named, endowed positions, including 5 new faculty support funds endowed during this fiscal year. Private funding augments salaries and supports awards, professional travel and professional development. This support is invaluable in creating the vibrant teaching and research environment that one expects at an international research university.
$72,161,940 spentof which $72,161,940 as grants16% of program spendingStudent Support - Virtually all privately funded scholarships, awards and fellowships provided by KU come from donor contributions to KU Endowment. This year, 108 new endowed scholarship and student support funds were created and about 9,273 students received financial assistance from privately funded scholarships at KU Endowment.
$70,578,958 spentof which $70,578,958 as grants16% of program spendingFacilities support - Construction, furnishings and equipment funded by private giving fluctuates from year to year depending on the timeline of construction projects. More than two-thirds of the University of Kansas buildings and about 85% of the land available for campus expansion were made possible by private gifts.
$214,812,433 spentof which $214,812,433 as grants$3,855,298 earned by the program48% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $444,490,987.
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 $2.2B to $2.8B (+28%).
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 11% · 2018 7% · 2019 6% · 2020 9% · 2021 12% · 2022 7% · 2023 7% · 2024 4% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
69% of The Kansas University Endowment Association’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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 97 funders to 139 funders, grant income rose $19M → $27M.
74 of 342 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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: $2.2M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Ku Endowment Charitable Gift Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money The Kansas University Endowment Association raised.
From the IRS filings of The Kansas University Endowment Association’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 342 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
The Kansas University Endowment Association has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
74% 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 The Kansas University Endowment Association.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 38% · 2019 30% · 2020 11% · 2021 25% · 2022 26% · 2023 24% — 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 The Kansas University Endowment Association's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
58% of The Kansas University Endowment Association'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 $89M that is directly attributable, 51% of it comes from funders outside Kansas, across 36 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $123M arriving through sponsors registered in 30 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
The Kansas University Endowment Association 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
Organizations like The Kansas University Endowment Association
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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 16 states
Part of a family of 24 related entities
- Cwapts LLC · disregarded
- Rgapts LLC · disregarded
- Rcp LLC · disregarded
- Stadpkg LLC · disregarded
- Kugc LLC · disregarded
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Kansas University Endowment Association: 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 The Kansas University Endowment Association?
- The Kansas University Endowment Association (Kansas) receives grants from 342 organizations whose IRS filings report $212,780,337 to it, the largest being Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ($49,417,992). 216 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does The Kansas University Endowment Association have?
- IRS filings report 342 organizations giving $212,780,337 in grants to The Kansas University Endowment Association, 216 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Kansas University Endowment Association?
- Greater Kansas City Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $49,417,992 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Kansas University Endowment Association find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 342 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