Kansas · Nonprofit
MIDAMERICA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY
MIDAMERICA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY (Kansas) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,441,813 to it, the largest being JE AND LE MABEE FOUNDATION INC ($4,000,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $66M
- Funders on record
- 47
- Grants received
- $7.4M
- Net assets
- $41M
What Midamerica Nazarene University does
Mission
Midamerica Nazarene University (mnu) is a transformative university that nurtures christlike community, pursues academic excellence, and cultivates a passion to serve. (continued on schedule o)mnu is a comprehensive liberal arts university offering undergraduate and selected professional and personal development for a life of service to god, the church, the nation, and the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Midamerica Nazarene University is a private, christian, liberal arts university founded in 1966. The campus is located on 105 acres in olathe, kansas. In 2016, mnu had its accreditation by the higher learning commission reaffirmed. Offering more than 70 areas of study in undergraduate, graduate and certificate programs, mnu is known for its personal, student-focused approach. Popular programs include undergraduate nursing, kinesiology, business administration, sports management, and psychology. Online offerings include classes in education, nursing, business and associate's level studies. Study abroad as well as service-learning experiences are offered. Enrollment for fy25 was 1,779. (continued on schedule o)mnu facts: mnu is the only private university in the state of kansas to offer a graduate counseling program accredited by the council for accreditation of counseling & related educational programs (cacrep). Mnu has offered innovative, accelerated adult degree completion and graduate programs since 1987. The yearly economic impact of the university per the kica study is $84.8 million annually in the state of kansas.
$50,807,248 spentof which $18,153,331 as grants$46,236,886 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $50,807,248.
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 2021 to 2022, from $39M to $55M (+41%).
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 5% · 2018 4% · 2019 5% · 2020 11% · 2021 6% · 2022 6% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
29% of MIDAMERICA NAZARENE 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. 5 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
Dr Daniel Rexroth
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $312k → $1.1M.
11 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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: $60M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Midamerica Nazerene University Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money MIDAMERICA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY raised.
From the IRS filings of MIDAMERICA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 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
MIDAMERICA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 50% · 2019 45% · 2020 45% · 2021 71% · 2022 25% · 2023 91% — 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 MIDAMERICA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
MIDAMERICA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside Kansas, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M 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
MIDAMERICA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY 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 MIDAMERICA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10.0M on record — $10.0M federal, $13 state.
- Department of Education$9.9M
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$99k
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $13
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 MIDAMERICA NAZARENE 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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Midamerica Nazarene University Foundation · exempt
- Charitable Remainder Trust (1) · corp_trust
- Church of the Nazarene Foundation · corp_trust
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MIDAMERICA NAZARENE 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 MIDAMERICA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY?
- MIDAMERICA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY (Kansas) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,441,813 to it, the largest being JE AND LE MABEE FOUNDATION INC ($4,000,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MIDAMERICA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $7,441,813 in grants to MIDAMERICA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MIDAMERICA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY?
- JE AND LE MABEE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MIDAMERICA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY 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 47 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