Oregon · Nonprofit
MULTNOMAH UNIVERSITY
MULTNOMAH UNIVERSITY (Oregon) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,427,888 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($1,037,449). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $3.4M
- Net assets
- $4.7M
What Multnomah University does
Mission
It is the mission of Multnomah University to equip christian students through higher education to become biblically competent, academically proficient, spiritually formed, and culturally engaged servant leaders, shaped to be a transforming force in the church, community
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2023 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
On May 2, 2024, Multnomah University completed a transaction that transferred most of its assets and several of its liabilities to William Jessup University located in Rocklin, California. Going forward, the university will continue to operate in a similar manner as it has in the past, but on a smaller scale, and is known as the Multnomah Campus of Jessup University, managed and supported by the Jessup University administration. Multnomah University remains as a separate entity holding certain assets and liabilities required by law until Jessup can determine how to transfer appropriately.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
During the current fiscal year the college provided educational programs for approximately 70 seminary and 245 undergraduate & masters students (total 315 students).
$27,387,729 spentof which $18,583,534 as grants$17,370,066 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $27,387,729.
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 2023 to 2024, from $27M to $8.4M (−69%).
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: 2021 12% · 2022 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
44% of MULTNOMAH 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. 6 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $102k → $344k.
8 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 MULTNOMAH 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
MULTNOMAH UNIVERSITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 89% · 2019 53% · 2020 53% · 2021 59% · 2022 57% · 2023 29% — 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
35% of MULTNOMAH UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
MULTNOMAH UNIVERSITY draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $658k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
MULTNOMAH UNIVERSITY's funding base is broadening — from 10 funders to 14 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,064 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding MULTNOMAH UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.5M on record.
- Department of Education$2.5M
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 MULTNOMAH 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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MULTNOMAH 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 MULTNOMAH UNIVERSITY?
- MULTNOMAH UNIVERSITY (Oregon) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,427,888 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($1,037,449). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MULTNOMAH UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $3,427,888 in grants to MULTNOMAH UNIVERSITY, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MULTNOMAH UNIVERSITY?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,037,449 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MULTNOMAH UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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