Texas · Nonprofit
MCMURRY UNIVERSITY
MCMURRY UNIVERSITY (Texas) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,998,584 to it, the largest being DIAN GRAVES OWEN FOUNDATION ($5,117,000). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $73M
- Funders on record
- 63
- Grants received
- $21M
- Net assets
- $176M
What McMurry University does
Mission
Shaped by christian principles, McMurry University challenges students to examine our complex world from multiple perspectives in preparation for lives of leadership, service and professional success.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
McMurry University was founded in 1923 by the united methodist church. The university challenged students to grow academically and socially with 66 academic majors and 66 academic, social and service organizations. Also offered to our approximately 3,175 racially and ethnically diverse students, are professional preparation programs in athletic training, engineering, allied health, dentistry, medicine, nursing, occupational therapy, pharmacy, physical therapy, veterinary medicine, law, and ministry along with a masters of accountancy and a masters of science in nursing in education or family nurse practitioner. The university is proud to offer a low student to faculty ratio of 16 to 1, average class size of 14 and does not use teaching assistants in the classrooms. Students can explore international culture by participating in an active national and international model un program and annual travel abroad educational programs. Also available to students is a student-run art gallery and artwork owned by the university appraised at $164k. The school of business has recently received a ten million dollar endowment and business students at mcmurry can participate in managing a one…
$34,631,598 spentof which $19,889,221 as grants$35,044,889 earned by the program66% of program spendingIn addition to educating students, the university offers on campus housing and dining services as auxiliary services. Dining options include three robust meal plans offering students cook to order menu items, various commuter plans and three retail options.
$10,357,122 spent$6,258,308 earned by the program20% of program spendingThe university provides student services through health and wellness, career services, religion and spiritual life, social clubs, academic success and student life experiences.
$5,238,786 spent$153,712 earned by the program10% of program spendingThe university offers athletic programs with a mission to make personal investments in the lives of all scholar-athletes and use the intercollegiate athletics experience to develop champions for life. The athletic program core values are responsibility, integrity, service and excellence. The university also offers assistance with student aid, as well as fostering relationships with alumni, which benefit our students.
$2,147,069 spent4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $52,374,575.
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 2022 to 2023, from $156M to $177M (+14%).
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 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).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $459k → $5.1M.
15 of 63 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 63 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 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
28% 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.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 40% · 2019 57% · 2020 41% · 2021 60% · 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; 56% 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
92% of MCMURRY UNIVERSITY's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
MCMURRY UNIVERSITY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
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.
- 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
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
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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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Questions and answers
- Who funds MCMURRY UNIVERSITY?
- MCMURRY UNIVERSITY (Texas) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,998,584 to it, the largest being DIAN GRAVES OWEN FOUNDATION ($5,117,000). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MCMURRY UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 63 organizations giving $20,998,584 in grants to MCMURRY UNIVERSITY, 35 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.
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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 63 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