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MCMURRY UNIVERSITY

MCMURRY UNIVERSITY (Texas) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,812,063 to it, the largest being DIAN GRAVES OWEN FOUNDATION ($5,117,000). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$73M
Revenue FY2025
61
Funders on record
$21M
Grants received
$176M
Net assets
32/61 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 11%

Against its field

MCMURRY UNIVERSITY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,681 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin14% · top quartile
Months of reserve1.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,681 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($35M) Expenses 100 ($33M) Net assets 100 ($116M)2018 Revenue 106 ($38M) Expenses 105 ($35M) Net assets 110 ($127M)2019 Revenue 108 ($38M) Expenses 112 ($37M) Net assets 110 ($128M)2020 Revenue 113 ($40M) Expenses 121 ($40M) Net assets 113 ($131M)2021 Revenue 115 ($41M) Expenses 121 ($40M) Net assets 131 ($152M)2022 Revenue 150 ($53M) Expenses 142 ($47M) Net assets 129 ($150M)2023 Revenue 155 ($55M) Expenses 142 ($47M) Net assets 132 ($153M)2024 Revenue 155 ($55M) Expenses 164 ($55M) Net assets 138 ($160M)2025 Revenue 205 ($73M) Expenses 187 ($62M) Net assets 152 ($176M)
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Revenue (205)Expenses (187)Net assets (152)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 5% · 2021 16% · 2022 11% · 2023 5% · 2024 11% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

35% of MCMURRY UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,261 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$2.1M
17
$2.6M
18
$894k
19
$198k
20
$430k
21
$6.0M
22
$7.5M
23
$550k
24
$11M
25
1.3
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $459k → $5.1M.

13 of 61 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)6% 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: $749k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foundation of Abilene). These are real filings, and they are not money MCMURRY UNIVERSITY raised.

From the IRS filings of MCMURRY UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 61 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

MCMURRY UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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

27% 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 MCMURRY UNIVERSITY.

25%
largest funder
52%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 40% · 2019 57% · 2020 41% · 2021 64% · 2022 34% · 2023 58%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

41% of MCMURRY UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

98% of MCMURRY UNIVERSITY's grant income comes from Texas funders.

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NY
MA
NV
IN
PA
MO
VA
NM
DC
OK
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 61 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding MCMURRY UNIVERSITY receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $16.4M on record.

Federal$16.4M
grants $16.4Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Education$15.6M
  • National Science Foundation$833k

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 MCMURRY UNIVERSITY

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Texas

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 14%Fundraising 2%

Governance

22
board members
95%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

72%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Betty Jo Mowry Inc · corp_trust
  • Perpetual Trusts (5) · corp_trust

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MCMURRY 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds MCMURRY UNIVERSITY?
MCMURRY UNIVERSITY (Texas) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,812,063 to it, the largest being DIAN GRAVES OWEN FOUNDATION ($5,117,000). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MCMURRY UNIVERSITY have?
IRS filings report 61 organizations giving $20,812,063 in grants to MCMURRY UNIVERSITY, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MCMURRY UNIVERSITY?
DIAN GRAVES OWEN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,117,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MCMURRY 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 61funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing