Texas · Nonprofit
LeTourneau University
LeTourneau University (Texas) receives grants from 85 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,360,452 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($2,531,030). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $124M
- Funders on record
- 85
- Grants received
- $10M
- Net assets
- $144M
What LeTourneau University does
Mission
LeTourneau University is a comprehensive institution of christian higher education where educators engage learners to nurture christian virtue, to develop competency and ingenuity in their professional fields, to integrate faith and work, and to serve the local and global community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
LeTourneau University's primary program service is the delivery of oncampus undergraduate education at its Longview, Texas campus. The University offers degree programs in engineering, technology, liberal arts, nursing, business, aeronautical science, education, and the sciences. LeTourneau University is consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report in the top tier among regional universities in the West. During the year ended June 30, 2025, the University served approximately 1,650 students through classroom instruction, labs, academic advising, and student support services, fulfilling its exempt educational mission.
$57,452,959 spentof which $21,186,621 as grants$56,008,719 earned by the program83% of program spendingThe University provides auxiliary services that support and enhance the oncampus student experience, including residential housing, meal plans, dining services, and related student support activities. These services contribute to student retention, campus life, and a comprehensive learning environment.
$11,636,428 spent$9,759,440 earned by the program17% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $69,089,387.
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 2023 to 2024, from $131M to $153M (+17%).
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 4% · 2018 3% · 2019 3% · 2020 5% · 2021 7% · 2022 8% · 2023 3% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
43% of LeTourneau University’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. 4 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
Roger Kieffer
Chair - Trustee
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $443k → $3.2M.
23 of 85 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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: $50k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Letourneau University Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money LeTourneau University raised.
From the IRS filings of LeTourneau University’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 85 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
LeTourneau University has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
72% 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 LeTourneau University.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 43% · 2019 24% · 2020 49% · 2021 52% · 2022 51% · 2023 32% — 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 LeTourneau 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
68% of LeTourneau 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 $3.3M that is directly attributable, 54% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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
LeTourneau University runs a healthier operating margin 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 LeTourneau University receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.1M on record — $7.1M federal, $2k state.
- Department of Education$6.8M
- National Science Foundation$137k
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$100k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$42k
- OK$2k
- FL$12
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 LeTourneau 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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- The Letourneau University Foundation · exempt
- Charitable Remainder Trusts (4) · corp_trust
- Rg Research and Development Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LeTourneau 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 LeTourneau University?
- LeTourneau University (Texas) receives grants from 85 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,360,452 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($2,531,030). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LeTourneau University have?
- IRS filings report 85 organizations giving $10,360,452 in grants to LeTourneau University, 49 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LeTourneau University?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,531,030 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LeTourneau 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.
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 85 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