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Kansas · Nonprofit
OTTAWA UNIVERSITY (Kansas) is funded by 62 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $5,800,170 in grants to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,272,551). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
OTTAWA UNIVERSITY has grown faster than half of the 53 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 53 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
Government-grant reliance: 2025 1%. Grants only — government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
4% of OTTAWA UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
$15k from 2 funders in 2025, up from $169k and 8 in 2017.
13 of 62 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 OTTAWA UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 62 funders by total. Association, not causation.
OTTAWA UNIVERSITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 48% · 2019 47% · 2020 78% · 2021 67% · 2022 21% · 2023 49% · 2024 27% · 2025 66% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
18% of OTTAWA UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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.
OTTAWA UNIVERSITY draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside Kansas — its reputation reaches beyond the state, across 26 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 62 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $12.6M on record — $12.6M federal, $51k state.
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.
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
88% of spending goes to programs.
Operates in 3 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 62funders 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. view filing