Kansas · Nonprofit
KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY (Kansas) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,336,447 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($8,651,150). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $45M
- Funders on record
- 69
- Grants received
- $21M
- Net assets
- $57M
What Kansas Wesleyan University does
Mission
Kansas Wesleyan University is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Kansas Wesleyan University provides an educational program characterized by excellence within a caring community. The call of the university is to develop both intellect and character, to stimulate creativity and discovery, to nurture the whole person - body, mind, and spirit. Diversity is embraced in curriculum, faculty, and students.
$35,717,183 spentof which $18,383,649 as grants$38,592,979 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $35,717,183.
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 2019 to 2020, from $50M to $55M (+11%).
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 0% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 3% · 2021 8% · 2022 9% · 2023 2% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
14% of KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% 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.
Chief executive
Dr Matthew R Thompson
President and CEO
Board chair
Marilyn Foster Kirk
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 41 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $4.5M.
7 of 69 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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: $8.5M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Kansas Wesleyan University Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY raised.
From the IRS filings of KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 69 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
KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
66% 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 KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 44% · 2019 40% · 2020 29% · 2021 34% · 2022 45% · 2023 56% — 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
83% of KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% 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
57% of KANSAS WESLEYAN 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 $9.1M that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from Kansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12M 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.
Against its field
KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY has grown faster than half 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 KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.8M on record.
- Department of Education$3.7M
- Department of Agriculture$100k
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 KANSAS WESLEYAN 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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
61%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Kansas Independent College Association · exempt
- Kansas Wesleyan University Foundation · exempt
- Charitable Remainder Trust (1) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: 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 KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY?
- KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY (Kansas) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,336,447 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($8,651,150). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 69 organizations giving $21,336,447 in grants to KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 51 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $8,651,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY 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.
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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 69 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