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MIDAMERICA NAZERENE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION

MIDAMERICA NAZERENE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION (Kansas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $401,836 to it, the largest being CLAY BLAIR FOUNDATION ($271,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$9.0M
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$402k
Net assets
$23M
6/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Midamerica Nazerene University Foundation does

Mission

Educational, religious, and charitable support for midamerica nazarene university by providing scholarship funds and other assistance to the university.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Institutional support for 1,779 students at midamerica nazarene university.

    $12,988,154 spentof which $12,988,154 as grants$57,159 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $12,988,154.

02The 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 ($5.8M) Expenses 100 ($3.5M) Net assets 100 ($14M)2018 Revenue 96 ($5.6M) Expenses 94 ($3.3M) Net assets 117 ($16M)2019 Revenue 156 ($9.1M) Expenses 91 ($3.2M) Net assets 161 ($22M)2020 Revenue 160 ($9.3M) Expenses 95 ($3.3M) Net assets 205 ($29M)2021 Revenue 103 ($6.0M) Expenses 172 ($6.0M) Net assets 221 ($31M)2022 Revenue 121 ($7.1M) Expenses 522 ($18M) Net assets 124 ($17M)2023 Revenue 122 ($7.1M) Expenses 155 ($5.4M) Net assets 142 ($20M)2024 Revenue 185 ($11M) Expenses 168 ($5.8M) Net assets 188 ($26M)2025 Revenue 155 ($9.0M) Expenses 379 ($13M) Net assets 163 ($23M)
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Revenue (155)Expenses (379)Net assets (163)Peer revenue range

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 $32M to $21M (−36%).

$14M
$17M
$23M
$29M
$32M
$21M
$25M
$31M
$27M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

84% of MIDAMERICA NAZERENE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,360 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$2.3M
’17
$2.3M
’18
$5.9M
’19
$6.0M
’20
$21k
’21
−$11M
’22
$1.7M
’23
$4.9M
’24
−$4.2M
’25
6.8
months of
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

Dr Jon D North

Executive director

Board chair

Kevin P Gilmore

Director and chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed1013131313131111
Joined·+3+0+0+0+2·+1
No longer listed·00002·1
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $100 → $90k.

7 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 MIDAMERICA NAZERENE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 NAZERENE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

32% 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 MIDAMERICA NAZERENE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION.

68%
largest funder
84%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 78% · 2022 93% · 2023 84% — diversifying over time.

“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

40% of MIDAMERICA NAZERENE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

99% of MIDAMERICA NAZERENE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Kansas funders.

IL
MO
KS
NC

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

’17
’18
’21
’22
’23
Kansas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $127k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MIDAMERICA NAZERENE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−46% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve6.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like MIDAMERICA NAZERENE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 1%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
64%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

78%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

KS

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Murlen Office Quarters LLC · disregarded
  • Mnuf Topeka Airport Property LLC · disregarded
  • Midamerica Nazarene University · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds MIDAMERICA NAZERENE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION?
MIDAMERICA NAZERENE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION (Kansas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $401,836 to it, the largest being CLAY BLAIR FOUNDATION ($271,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MIDAMERICA NAZERENE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $401,836 in grants to MIDAMERICA NAZERENE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MIDAMERICA NAZERENE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION?
CLAY BLAIR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $271,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MIDAMERICA NAZERENE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION 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.

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 11 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