Michigan · Nonprofit
KUYPER COLLEGE
KUYPER COLLEGE (Michigan) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,322,157 to it, the largest being Barnabas Foundation ($986,951). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.1M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Kuyper College does
Mission
At kuyper, we are preparing students to be ready for their careers, rooted in a biblical reformed worldview, and called by god to serve every square inch within the church and the world. (continued on schedule o)to accomplish these outcomes, we place a high value on providing students with relevant internship placements, a solid biblical and theological foundation, and numerous opportunities to develop leadership skills and cultural competencies so they can serve effectively in areas of service and ministry.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Founded in 1939 and accredited by regional and national accrediting bodies, Kuyper College is a bible college and a federally recognized work college. Grounded in a biblical reformed worldview, Kuyper College integrates learning in and outside of the classroom to form lifelong learners for purposeful lives of work and service to god and neighbor.through ministry leadership, social work, business leadership, education, and other academic programs, as well as kuyperworks, the college's work program, students engage in meaningful learning that integrates classroom instruction with real-world experience. (continued on schedule o)Kuyper College graduates serve in a wide range of vocations across more than 50 countries, applying their education to make a lasting impact within churches, organizations, and communities worldwide.
$6,714,189 spentof which $1,474,271 as grants$4,378,547 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,714,189.
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 $11M to $14M (+19%).
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 12% · 2021 8% · 2022 14% · 2023 6% · 2024 17% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
33% of KUYPER COLLEGE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Janice Koopman
Board chairwoman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 13 funders, grant income fell $1.1M → $139k.
9 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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 KUYPER COLLEGE’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
KUYPER COLLEGE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% 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
79% 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 KUYPER COLLEGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 34% · 2019 27% · 2020 27% · 2021 34% · 2022 30% · 2023 38% — 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
59% of KUYPER COLLEGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
77% of KUYPER COLLEGE'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 $534k that is directly attributable, 57% of it comes from funders outside Michigan, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M 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
KUYPER COLLEGE receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $2.3M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding KUYPER COLLEGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.2M on record.
- Department of Education$1.2M
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 KUYPER COLLEGE
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KUYPER COLLEGE: 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 KUYPER COLLEGE?
- KUYPER COLLEGE (Michigan) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,322,157 to it, the largest being Barnabas Foundation ($986,951). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does KUYPER COLLEGE have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $2,322,157 in grants to KUYPER COLLEGE, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KUYPER COLLEGE?
- Barnabas Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $986,951 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KUYPER COLLEGE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 27 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