Idaho · Nonprofit
NORTHWEST NAZARENE UNIVERSITY INC
NORTHWEST NAZARENE UNIVERSITY INC (Idaho) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,004,748 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($6,088,861). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $76M
- Funders on record
- 71
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $158M
What Northwest Nazarene University Inc does
Mission
The mission of northwest nazarene university (nnu) is the transformation of the whole person. Centered in jesus christ, the nnu education instills habits of heart, soul, mind, and strength to enable each student to become god's creative and redemptive agent in the world. Northwest nazarene university strives to be a vibrant educational community that integrates and reflects christian faith in all that it does. The university seeks to provide nationally-recognized programs distinguished by graduates who are academically prepared, spiritually grounded, service minded, globally engaged, and vocationally successful.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Instructional services and organized research:northwest nazarene university, a christian comprehensive university, offers more than 60 areas of study, 16 master's degrees in six different disciplines, 3 doctoral degrees, accelerated degree programs, concurrent credit for high school students, and a variety of continuing education credits. In addition to its 90-acre campus located in nampa, idaho, the university offers programs online as well as in idaho falls, and in cooperation with programs in ten countries. Founded in 1913, the university serves over 1,600 undergraduate and graduate students, more than 6,000 continuing education students, and over 7,000 high school students through the concurrent credit program.
$44,766,909 spentof which $22,153,231 as grants$51,578,398 earned by the program73% of program spendingAcademic support and student services:library services: nnu's library resources are excellent and most are delivered via the web with access to libraries across the country and around the world.marketing and media: nnu's office of marketing and media is responsible for helping the university tell its story -- that nnu seeks a more excellent way; a way rooted in love. The audience for this story includes prospective students, donors, alumni, the community, media, and faculty and staff. The office offers its services across campus in marketing, branding, research or expertise in content development, design, photography, and media relations, to help each department tell its own part of the nnu story.academic support center: provides a variety of services to all nnu students, including writing consulting, subject area tutoring by peers, and courses for credits.information technology services (its): offers computer technical support to the nnu campus and a wide variety of audio/visual services to the campus, area churches, and the community. Services offered including making copies, transparencies, providing materials needed to produce instructional materials and signs, laminating,…
$11,540,825 spent$1,740,439 earned by the program19% of program spendingAuxiliary services:food services: meals were provided at northwest nazarene university by sodexo, inc. And affiliates until 7/31/23, at which point fresh ideas food service management took over. Most students living on campus are required to carry a meal plan. Meal plan options are based on the residence hall being lived in. An average of 544 students were enrolled in some type of meal plan on campus for the current fiscal year.program service accomplishments: convenience of on-campus living. All seven facilities combine for a total capacity of 873 beds, with 629 student occupancy for fall 2023 and 567 student occupancy for spring 2024. All unmarried students who do not have senior standing or are less than 23 years of age are required to live in one of the residence halls unless they are specifically granted an exception.on-campus bookstore: beginning july 1, 2023, our campus bookstore management was transferred to an outside third party, so this is no longer a part of the university's auxiliary services.conferences and events: handles rentals/planning for events, conferences, camps, etc., held in the performing arts center as well as other areas across campus.residential…
$5,384,533 spent$5,636,524 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $61,692,267.
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 $151M to $167M (+11%).
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 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 2% · 2020 2% · 2021 2% · 2022 13% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of NORTHWEST NAZARENE UNIVERSITY INC’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
Mike Zahare
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $452k → $888k.
18 of 71 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 NORTHWEST NAZARENE UNIVERSITY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 71 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
NORTHWEST NAZARENE UNIVERSITY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 59%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
26% 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 NORTHWEST NAZARENE UNIVERSITY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 19% · 2019 21% · 2020 33% · 2021 38% · 2022 17% · 2023 16% — 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
45% of NORTHWEST NAZARENE UNIVERSITY INC'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
NORTHWEST NAZARENE UNIVERSITY INC draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside Idaho, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.8M 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
NORTHWEST NAZARENE UNIVERSITY INC runs a healthier operating margin than half 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 NORTHWEST NAZARENE UNIVERSITY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.3M on record — $7.3M federal, $6k state.
- Department of Education$6.9M
- Department of Agriculture$389k
- Department of Veterans Affairs$12k
- Department of State$10k
- DISTRIBUTION TO INDIVIDUALS$6k
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 NORTHWEST NAZARENE 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 Idaho
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 4 states
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Northwest Nazarene University Foundation Inc · exempt
- Nnu Health Inc · exempt
- Charitable Remainder Trusts (25) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NORTHWEST NAZARENE UNIVERSITY INC: 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 NORTHWEST NAZARENE UNIVERSITY INC?
- NORTHWEST NAZARENE UNIVERSITY INC (Idaho) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,004,748 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($6,088,861). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTHWEST NAZARENE UNIVERSITY INC have?
- IRS filings report 71 organizations giving $14,004,748 in grants to NORTHWEST NAZARENE UNIVERSITY INC, 43 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHWEST NAZARENE UNIVERSITY INC?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,088,861 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHWEST NAZARENE UNIVERSITY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Idaho. 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 71 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