North Carolina · Nonprofit
NORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY INC
NORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,370,928 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($3,385,235). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $48M
- Funders on record
- 50
- Grants received
- $8.4M
- Net assets
- $39M
What North Carolina Wesleyan University Inc does
Mission
North carolina wesleyan university, a private institution affiliated with the united methodist church, prepares students for professional advancement, life-long learning, and responsible participation in their communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Instructional services to university students
$44,846,004 spentof which $19,550,712 as grants$43,517,882 earned by the program99% of program spendingPublic service - operated the dunn center for the performing arts, open to the community and eastern north carolina.
$295,427 spent1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $45,141,431.
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 $53M to $60M (+12%).
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 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 8% · 2021 8% · 2022 16% · 2023 8% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
8% of NORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $186k → $600k.
14 of 50 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 NORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 50 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
NORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
75% 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 NORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 44% · 2019 47% · 2020 83% · 2021 40% · 2022 53% · 2023 38% — growing more concentrated.
“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
45% of NORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
NORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY INC draws 60% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 18 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
NORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY INC's funding base is broadening — from 13 funders to 18 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding NORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15.0M on record.
- Department of Education$14.7M
- National Science Foundation$252k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$60k
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 NORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY INC
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY INC?
- NORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,370,928 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($3,385,235). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY INC have?
- IRS filings report 50 organizations giving $8,370,928 in grants to NORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY INC, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY INC?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,385,235 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY INC 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 50 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