Missouri · Nonprofit
Missouri Baptist University
Missouri Baptist University (Missouri) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,330,549 to it, the largest being Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation ($350,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $71M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $64M
What Missouri Baptist University does
Mission
Missouri Baptist University is an evangelical christian, liberal arts institution of higher learning whose purpose is to offer programs of study leading to professional certificates, undergraduate degrees, and graduate degrees in an environment of academic excellence from a biblically-based christian perspective. (continued on schedule o)
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Instructional: includes humanities, natural science, social and behavioral science, teacher education, fine arts, business, health and sports sciences
$44,363,763 spentof which $27,465,668 as grants$43,151,055 earned by the program74% of program spendingStudent services: includes campus activities, athletics, admissions registrar, career services, and student financial services
$8,726,270 spent$8,487,733 earned by the program15% of program spendingAcademic support: includes library, tutoring, advising, and academic administrative expenses
$4,445,457 spent$4,323,938 earned by the program7% of program spendingOperations and maintenance: auxiliary support for maintenance of campus
$2,552,438 spent$2,482,664 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $60,087,928.
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 2019 to 2020, from $81M to $89M (+10%).
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: 2020 3% · 2021 13% · 2022 15% · 2023 6% · 2024 5% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
15% of Missouri Baptist University’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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.
Board chair
Dan Burns
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $39k → $100k.
10 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 Missouri Baptist University’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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
Missouri Baptist University has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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
50% 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 Missouri Baptist University.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 52% · 2019 39% · 2020 41% · 2021 73% · 2022 43% · 2023 39% — 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
24% of Missouri Baptist University's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
Missouri Baptist University draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $282k 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
Missouri Baptist University runs a healthier operating margin than half 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 Missouri Baptist University receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $11.3M on record.
- Department of Education$11.3M
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 Missouri Baptist 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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Missouri Baptist 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 Missouri Baptist University?
- Missouri Baptist University (Missouri) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,330,549 to it, the largest being Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation ($350,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Missouri Baptist University have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $1,330,549 in grants to Missouri Baptist University, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Missouri Baptist University?
- Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $350,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Missouri Baptist University find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 34 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