Kentucky · Nonprofit
LINDSEY WILSON UNIVERSITY INC
LINDSEY WILSON UNIVERSITY INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,598,367 to it, the largest being THE EVERGREEN CHARITABLE & EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ($550,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $84M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $110M
What Lindsey Wilson University Inc does
Mission
The mission of lindsey wilson university is to serve the educational needs of students by providing a living-learning environment within an atmosphere of active caring and christian concern where every student, every day, learns and grows and feels like a real human being.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Higher education: 4,147 full and part time students enrolled in undergraduate and graduate classes: 1,752 degrees bestowed in the academic year.
$69,120,230 spentof which $26,959,507 as grants$75,332,938 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $69,120,230.
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 $92M to $106M (+15%).
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 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 2% · 2021 14% · 2022 10% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
4% of LINDSEY WILSON UNIVERSITY INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (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.
Board chair
S Oden Howell Jr
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $81k → $514k.
9 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 LINDSEY WILSON UNIVERSITY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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
LINDSEY WILSON UNIVERSITY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% 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
62% 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 LINDSEY WILSON UNIVERSITY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 22% · 2019 43% · 2020 42% · 2021 34% · 2022 51% · 2023 78% — 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
35% of LINDSEY WILSON UNIVERSITY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
82% of LINDSEY WILSON UNIVERSITY INC's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $400k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
LINDSEY WILSON UNIVERSITY INC's funding base is broadening — from 9 funders to 11 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding LINDSEY WILSON UNIVERSITY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $18.0M on record.
- Department of Education$16.1M
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.0M
- National Science Foundation$824k
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 LINDSEY WILSON UNIVERSITY INC
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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Turner Foundation for Lindsey Wilson University Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LINDSEY WILSON UNIVERSITY INC: 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 LINDSEY WILSON UNIVERSITY INC?
- LINDSEY WILSON UNIVERSITY INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,598,367 to it, the largest being THE EVERGREEN CHARITABLE & EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ($550,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LINDSEY WILSON UNIVERSITY INC have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $1,598,367 in grants to LINDSEY WILSON UNIVERSITY INC, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LINDSEY WILSON UNIVERSITY INC?
- THE EVERGREEN CHARITABLE & EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $550,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LINDSEY WILSON UNIVERSITY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 42 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing