Kansas · Nonprofit
MCPHERSON COLLEGE
MCPHERSON COLLEGE (Kansas) receives grants from 89 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,243,483 to it, the largest being SAINT STEPHEN'S OF KANSAS CHARITABLE TRUST ($3,001,100). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $67M
- Funders on record
- 89
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $788M
What McPherson College does
Mission
To develop whole persons through scholarship, participation and service. McPherson College is a vibrant community of persons from diverse faiths and cultural backgrounds. The college provides education in over 30 areas of study, serving approximately 781 students.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
McPherson College's mission is to "develop whole persons through scholarship, participation, and service" within a career-focused liberal arts environment. In 2023, the college secured an unprecedented 1b commitment to its endowment, marking one of the largest single endowment commitments of any small liberal arts college in the u.s. Nationally recognized by u.s. News & world report, money magazine, and the chronicle of higher education's "great colleges to work for," McPherson College is renowned for its innovative programs. Its automotive restoration program, the first four-year degree program of its kind, made history when a student-restored mercedes-benz 300 s earned a class award at the pebble beach concours d'elegance - the first time a student-restored car received such an honor at the prestigious concours. Learn about all of its programs at www.mcpherson.edu.
$41,441,213 spentof which $20,890,883 as grants$43,138,141 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $41,441,213.
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 $110M to $764M (+593%).
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 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 2% · 2020 2% · 2021 6% · 2022 5% · 2023 0% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
33% of MCPHERSON COLLEGE’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.
Chief executive
Marty Sigwing
Exec dir of
Board chair
Paula Vincent
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 38 funders, grant income rose $311k → $3.3M.
18 of 89 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 MCPHERSON COLLEGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 89 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
MCPHERSON COLLEGE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 30% · 2019 35% · 2020 75% · 2021 40% · 2022 27% · 2023 31% — 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 MCPHERSON COLLEGE'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
MCPHERSON COLLEGE draws 52% of its grant income from funders outside Kansas, across 23 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
MCPHERSON COLLEGE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding MCPHERSON COLLEGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.5M on record — $6.5M federal, $35k state.
- Department of Education$6.5M
- FEDERAL$35k
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 MCPHERSON 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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- McPherson College 457b Plan · disregarded
- Ks Independent College Association · exempt
- Ks Independent College Foundation · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MCPHERSON 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 MCPHERSON COLLEGE?
- MCPHERSON COLLEGE (Kansas) receives grants from 89 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,243,483 to it, the largest being SAINT STEPHEN'S OF KANSAS CHARITABLE TRUST ($3,001,100). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MCPHERSON COLLEGE have?
- IRS filings report 89 organizations giving $15,243,483 in grants to MCPHERSON COLLEGE, 50 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MCPHERSON COLLEGE?
- SAINT STEPHEN'S OF KANSAS CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $3,001,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MCPHERSON COLLEGE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 89 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