North Carolina · Nonprofit
MONTREAT COLLEGE
MONTREAT COLLEGE (North Carolina) receives grants from 85 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,255,048 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($4,198,289). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $43M
- Funders on record
- 85
- Grants received
- $19M
- Net assets
- $65M
What Montreat College does
Mission
Montreat College is an independent, christ-centered, liberal arts institution that educates students through intellectual inquiry, spiritual formation, and preparation for calling and career.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The college provides a broad, rigorous liberal arts curriculum with an emphasis on traditional and selected undergraduate and graduate professional degree programs, including degree programs for adult learners and programs at geographically distant locations. Ourstatements of mission, vision and faith have formed the following educational objectives at Montreat College.1.that students will develop an informed, biblical world view including the following:- the sovereignty of god over all creation and knowledge;- a lifestyle of christian service to others and the community;- the recognition of the intrinsic worth of self and all persons;- a genuine critical openness to the ideas and beliefs of others;- the formation of values and ethical reasoning;- an appreciation for what is beautiful, true and good in the arts and literature;-a respect for and attitude of stewardship toward the whole of creation;- an understanding of the past and its interconnectedness with the present and future.2. That students will demonstrate effective written and oral communication skills.3. That students will demonstrate critical thinking and problem-solving skills.4. That students will demonstrate…
$24,013,045 spent$34,608,499 earned by the program63% of program spendingTo provide scholarships and similar financial aid - in fiscal year 2025, there were institutional awards to 734 students.
$13,972,372 spentof which $13,972,372 as grants37% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $37,985,417.
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 $34M to $53M (+59%).
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 8% · 2019 1% · 2020 0% · 2021 14% · 2022 31% · 2023 33% · 2024 18% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
18% of MONTREAT COLLEGE’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. 3 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
Paul Maurer
CEO
Board chair
Jeff Heck
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 39 funders, grant income rose $461k → $4.0M.
20 of 85 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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: $708k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Montreat College Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money MONTREAT COLLEGE raised.
From the IRS filings of MONTREAT COLLEGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 85 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
MONTREAT COLLEGE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
68% 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 MONTREAT COLLEGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 38% · 2019 34% · 2020 22% · 2021 26% · 2022 18% · 2023 22% — 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
59% of MONTREAT COLLEGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
53% of MONTREAT COLLEGE's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
MONTREAT COLLEGE holds deeper cash reserves 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 MONTREAT COLLEGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.7M on record.
- Department of Education$4.5M
- Department of Defense$241k
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 MONTREAT 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Montreat College Foundation · exempt
- Carolina Cyber Center Inc · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MONTREAT 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 MONTREAT COLLEGE?
- MONTREAT COLLEGE (North Carolina) receives grants from 85 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,255,048 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($4,198,289). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MONTREAT COLLEGE have?
- IRS filings report 85 organizations giving $19,255,048 in grants to MONTREAT COLLEGE, 52 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MONTREAT COLLEGE?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,198,289 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MONTREAT COLLEGE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 85 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