Nebraska · Nonprofit
NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY (Nebraska) receives grants from 108 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,464,826 to it, the largest being Philip S Mullin Charitable Trust ($2,000,000). 67 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $87M
- Funders on record
- 108
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $151M
What Nebraska Wesleyan University does
Mission
Nebraska Wesleyan University is an academic community dedicated to intellectual and personal growth within the context of a liberal arts education and in an environment of christian concern.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Instruction - Nebraska Wesleyan University (nwu or university) is known for a rigorous and nurturing learning environment, enhanced by the faculty's deserved reputation for exceptionally effective teaching and mentoring. Academic programs consist of face-to-face instruction and integration of the liberal arts regardless of major. Nwu serves approximately 1,500 traditional undergraduates earning bachelor's degrees on a residential campus. The university enrolls approximately 200 graduate students. U.s. News & world report has named nwu a top regional university. Its general education program, the archway curriculum, integrates learning across disciplinary boundaries, enhances learning through non-classroom experiences, and weaves skill development throughout the academic program.the university is a nationally-recognized leader for combined excellence in academics and athletics, ranking 13th in the nation (among all divisions) with 192 academic all-americans and seventh in the nation for ncaa postgraduate scholarships.
$62,933,134 spentof which $41,072,017 as grants$72,140,883 earned by the program80% of program spendingStudent services - Nebraska Wesleyan University's living and learning environment focuses on student success through development of the whole person. Student well-being and personal growth are supported through career guidance, health and counseling services, organizational involvement and multiple enrichment opportunities. About 40% of traditional students compete in intercollegiate athletics (21 sports). Nwu is a member of ncaa division iii and competes in the american rivers conference. The prairie wolves have celebrated many conference wins as well as national championships in men's golf and men's basketball.
$10,080,021 spent13% of program spendingAcademic support - nebraska wesleyan instructional programs are strengthened by the university's library, cooper center for academic resources, academic advising, accessibility services, instructional and computer services, global engagement office, university symposiums and lectures and support of professional development for faculty.
$5,940,255 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $78,953,410.
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 2020 to 2021, from $137M to $158M (+15%).
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 2% · 2019 2% · 2020 3% · 2021 5% · 2022 7% · 2023 2% · 2024 2% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
11% of NEBRASKA WESLEYAN 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
Kevin Cook
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 48 funders, grant income rose $355k → $1.5M.
20 of 108 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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: $3.6M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Lincoln Community Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY raised.
From the IRS filings of NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 108 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
NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
28% 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 NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 50% · 2019 45% · 2020 26% · 2021 14% · 2022 27% · 2023 36% — 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
48% of NEBRASKA WESLEYAN 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
66% of NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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
NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY's funding base is broadening — from 17 funders to 48 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $11.3M on record — $11.3M federal, $710 state.
- Department of Education$9.9M
- Department of Justice$689k
- National Science Foundation$654k
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $710
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 NEBRASKA WESLEYAN 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 Nebraska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Charitable Remainder Trusts (11) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY?
- NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY (Nebraska) receives grants from 108 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,464,826 to it, the largest being Philip S Mullin Charitable Trust ($2,000,000). 67 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 108 organizations giving $11,464,826 in grants to NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 67 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY?
- Philip S Mullin Charitable Trust is the largest funder on record, with $2,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. 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 108 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